WATERVILLE $ The Planning Board on Monday will consider a request to rezone part of the former animal shelter site on Drummond Avenue owned by the Humane Society Waterville Area.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at The Center.

Lester and Margaret Soucy have a contract to buy the property at 120 Drummond Avenue and want to put a woodworking shop in a garage behind the main building, and offices in the building formerly used as a kennel.

Part of the lot is in the industrial zone and the front half is in the residential zone. The property in front, closest to Drummond Avenue, would have to be rezoned general industrial because the city's zoning ordinance does not allow crossing a residential zone to access uses other than those in that zone. Offices are not allowed in a residential zone.

City councilors referred the request to the Planning Board, which will make a recommendation and return the issue to the council.

"The Planning board only recommends to the council on rezoning, so they will recommend and the council has to vote three times," City Planner Ann Beverage said Friday.