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She maintained that her nght to transfer a lot to her son had been taken away when her neighbor’s three family transfers were approved. “I am told that before a right under a zoning law can be taken away, there must be a hearing. I an told that there must be a notice and that the people have to be given the chance to be heard.
“I had no notice. I had no hearing.”
Noting that the Constitution calls the right to notice and hearing “due process of law,” she said her first response to being stripped of that right was to ask her attorney to file a lawsuit. But in accord with Mr. Baumgardner’s advice, Mrs. Doares told the planning commissioners, she instead submitted an amendment to the zoning law “so that you would have a starting point for the purpose of discussing changes. I am told that many of you feel that this amendment is too broad and would open up the county to unwanted growth and development.”
“Fine," Mrs. Doares continued. “I an hereby withdrawing my amendment and call on you to pass an amendment of your own that will a^omrtisb. your goals and treat me arid others fairly. I trust and hope that any amendment passed by you will correct the injustice that I have suffered,” she concluded.
‘This is a question of fairness and constitutionality,” Mr. Baumgardner added. “We leave it in your hands."
And with that, Mrs. Doares and her attorney left the meeting.
A starting point
For a moment, there was silence.
“Well, there certainly can’t be any amendment drawn here tonight,” remarked Commissioner David Fannon.
“Whatever you come up with is going to have to be readvertised,” said Mr. McCarthy, interpreting Mrs. Doares’ position as “consider
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