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The county Planning Commission does not and cannot grant or approve special exceptions or special use permits. It also cannot turn them down. What they can do is make recommendations to either the Board of Supervisors (Special Exceptions) or to the Board of Zoning Appeals (Special Use Permits).
The newspaper uses the term “approves” when talking about a course of action that
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