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offices in agricultural zones but allow them in residential zones with a special use permit.
Hampton District representative Mike Massie was joined by Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes and Wakefield District representative Hubert Gilkey in voting for the ban on antique/gift shops. Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham and Stonewall-Hawthorn District representative Robert Anderson opposed it. Mr. Massie provided the swing vote in this case as he did in the Planning Commission which recommended the ban in a 4 to 3 vote last month. He said he could “go either way.”
County Administrator John McCarthy said the county currently has one antique shop operating with a special use permit in an agricultural zone and an application for one more that will be heard by the Planning Commission later this month. That can still be approved because the application came in before the change in the Zoning Ordinance. With the new amendment no one else can apply for such a shop in an agricultural zone, but antique/gift shops will still be allowed in villages.
Mr. McCarthy said the county zoning ordinance makes a distinction between home occupations which are generally allowed and retail uses that can generate a lot of traffic.
Mr. Massie said the amendments were recommended by the Planning Commission because of a “concern to let villages be villages and farms be farms” without having the villages connected by strips of such commercial activities.
Col. Bingham said he could not
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