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maintained that the county “is very susceptible to loosing a legal challenge that the ordinances are exclusionary” and that “some of the regulations are not workable when applied as written.”
He also found the zoning and subdivision regulations intermixed, “inter as well as intra contradictory,” poorly organized with specifics that “are confusing as to meaning in many cases.”
“In some cases, the ordinances leave the county wide open for uses which they need better control over and in some cases, they are restrictive to the extent that they bear little relationship to acceptable zoning practices or reality,” McNear wrote.
He concluded, however, that the present ordinances shouldn’t be scrapped, that basic concepts and general thrust are valid although much refinement, reorganization and clarification is required. “The basic concept can be made sound and much more legally supportable,” he maintained, •The planners set a special meeting for Tuesday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the court house for the start of the ordinance review with McNear.
In other action, the commissioners received an application for another commercial garage rezoning, the third in the past few months. Hushel and Joyce Settle are requesting that their property on Route 729 near Estes be re zoned from residential to commercial. The planners set the date for the ^public hearing on Settle’s rezoning application for Wednesday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m.
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