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were in the United States buying scrap metal and apparently the actual mill machinery was sold then. As a result, he said, he cannot get the building listed with the National Register of Historic Places. “Since I got the site I’ve wracked by brain trying to make an economic use of it other than bulldoze it down. It’s unsafe now.” Mr. Helmick said the walls are generally sound. Half the roof has fallen in and the other half is about to fall. He said the walls are 30 inches thick and the only damage to the walls came from the falling roof.
Gary Light presented the planners with a petition opposing the application signed by 40 people. “We’re opposed to degrading the tranquility of the community,” he said.
Louis G. “Butch” Zindel asked, “Do you thinks it’s better for Laurel Mills to have the building deteriorating or to have it improved?”
Jim Lofton said, “Laurel Mills is a small community with few houses, and the center of the community is the Laurel Mills Store. It’s basically an agrarian area....An auction hall that brings 100 people on Saturday night with.traffic and a caller would interfere with the character of the neighborhood.An auction house is not a benefit to the community at large.”
Piedmont District representative Tom Junk asked if most of the people who had signed the petition were against the auction house, or if they also had a problem with the plan for
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