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acted on Jerry Mill's’ rezoning application under the misconception that the adjoining store property was already zoned commercial.
White this may have been the case with the planning commission, the supervisors were under no such illusion when they voted to approve the rezoning. Baumgardner noted he advised the board that the adjoining store WAS NOT zoned commercial before the supervisors voted unanimously to grant Mills' rezoning request. The board, he said, was aware that the store was a non-confortning commercial use in an agricultural zone. information that came directly from zoning administrator Evan McNear.
If Mills store was not colored commercial on the county zoning map, then technically the property is not zoned commercial, no matter what the intent of local government was at the time, according to Miller. “That puts us in error in the decision on the Slate Mills property," he said.
Luke requested a site inspection of the Settle property before the commissioners vote on a recommendation to the supervisors. February 25 at 7:30 p.m. was set for a special meeting to act on the rezoning application.
Blanket Rezoning
“I don’t object to Mr. Settle fixing cars there but I do object to a blanket (commercial) rezoning in an agricultural district.” said Fannon. He added that the problems facing the county with all the garage requests show the need for a conditional rezoning option to give local government more flexibility in dealing with proposed land uses.
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