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Rezoning
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doesn’t allow for any retail activity in an agricultural zone, so the only way an antique business can be conducted on the 1.6 acres in question is by rezoning, Mr. McCarthy explained.
“I think what I came here with tonight is very reasonable,” Mr. Henry said. “It’s a commercial area. There are businesses directly across the street and next door. The visibility’s good — you can see two or three football field lengths in each direction. It’s not adverse to the public welfare. It would be a benefit to the county.” The business would be conducted in an existing structure and it wouldn’t produce a high volume of traffic, he added. “So safety isn’t an issue here.”
But the use could be intensified after the property is rezoned, Dr. Krebser maintained.
“You can control that with a site plan ... You don’t lose control once the property is rezoned,” Mr. Henry responded.
“And will we get a request next month for a rezoning on the next property?” asked Mr. Massie.
“You might very well,” the county administrator answered. “The question then comes, would that be good, too?” He explained that a determination of public benefit is key to approval of Mr. Henry’s application and any that follow; approval of Mr. Henry’s rezoning request does not bind local government to grant a rezoning for another parcel unless it determined the second rezoning to also be in the public interest.
“I certainly don’t think another antique shop in the county is going to hurt a thing,” said Mr. Massie,
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