PORT TOWNSEND — A proposal to bring a 20,000-square-foot hardware distribution business — and 20 jobs — to Port Townsend is apparently evaporating.
Only three members of the seven-member City Council — Joe Finnie, Geoff Masci and Al Youse — voted Monday night to rezone 1.5 acres of Jefferson Transit property near Sims Way to allow for Victorian Home Hardware Co. of San Jose, Calif., to move to Port Townsend.
Because at least four “yes” votes were needed, the rezoning proposal was shot down.
Victorian Home Hardware’s owner, Kenneth Kelly, who has owned a home in Port Townsend for 1½ years and wanted to move his fixtures company to a town of Victorian homes, did not attend Monday night’s City Council meeting.
But his real estate agent, Shirley Rudolph, said after the council vote that there is no other parcel large enough in Port Townsend to accommodate Kelly’s needs.
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