ZELIENOPLE — Thursday open-air markets are poised to return this year.

They might look different, though.

Borough Council on Monday approved the Zelienople Area Business Administration’s request to hold the open-air markets between May 5 and Oct. 27, but did not approve a related request to erect tents in the Spring Street parking lot.

A motion to approve the permit failed to receive a second from any of the six members of council and as such died on the table.

The permit, according to borough manager Don Pepe, would have allowed the business administration — or ZABA — to put up tents in the Zelienople Municipal Parking Lot for six months.

And not just on Thursdays, either; the tents would have been up every day for half the year.

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