SAXONBURG — She provided borough residents with cakes, cookies, breads and pastries for three decades, and on Tuesday night, the borough treated Ellen Moser to action that will make her bakery building easier to sell.

Borough council voted unanimously to rezone the former Saxonburg Bakery at 361 W. Water Street from commercial to residential status.

Ellen Moser and her late husband, Frank, bought the bakery business from Frank’s cousin in 1972 and the building, which included a gas station, in 1978.

The gas station closed in the 1980s and the popular bakery in 2002, but Moser has been unable to sell the property since.

The building now includes two apartments, and a longtime tenant is interested in buying the building and converting the former bakery iinto a living room for her apartment.

The tenant has been unable to get a loan for the building because it is zoned commercial and obtaining residential insurance would be impossible.

So Moser approached the borough planning commission about rezoning the 22,400-square-foot property.

On Aug. 3, the commission approved the change and recommended council do the same, which would be the final step in the process to sell the building.

Councilman Dave Johnston, who also sits on the planning commission, told his fellow council members that no residents opposed the rezoning at the commission meeting.

Moser said after the meeting that she is relieved the measure was passed by council.

She still hears comments from residents who miss the delicacies once prepared by the Mosers and their staff.

“I miss it, too,” Moser said. “They don’t make stuff now how we made it.”

Moser, who will be 84 years old in October, said she began working at the bakery after graduating from Butler High School in 1956.