Hotel for Clear Spring gains site approval
The town of Clear Spring soon will have a new hotel.
The planning commission approved a site plan Monday for a Sleep Inn and Suites on Houck Avenue behind the McDonald's on Clear Spring Road.
The hotel will be three stories with 79 rooms, according to the plans.
The Washington County Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance that will allow the hotel's sign to be 632 square feet in size and 150 feet high so it can be seen from Interstate 70.
Normal regulations would require the sign to be 300 square feet and 35 feet high.
The town supports the hotel's plans, which overlap into Clear Spring's municipal boundary, Town Clerk Juanita K. Grimm said at Monday's meeting.