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1 ti 4 <br /> 2. . . ..� i`J �` <br /> 3. = <br /> . County Commissioners Present: Richard Whitted, Chairman, and <br /> • <br /> 5. Commissioners Barnes, Gustaveson, Walker and Willhoit. <br /> 6. Chairman Whitted called,the meeting to order and stated its pur- <br /> 7. pose; he then turned the meeting over to Chairperson Crawford. <br /> 8. Chairperson Crawford stated that the purpose of the meeting was <br /> 9. primarily to elicit comments from the public on the proposed zoning <br /> 10_ atlas and zoning text. Chairperson Crawford requested that the public <br /> 11. approach the podium and state their name and address before commenting. <br /> 12. Item 1: Rezoning Request--Mary D. Henry <br /> Property <br /> 13. <br /> 14. Chairperson Crawford stated that those in favor of the pro- <br /> 15. posed rezoning request would be heard first. <br /> 16. Jim Polatty presented the Staff's research and recommendation <br /> 17. on the request. Mr. Polatty stated that the property.was located <br /> 18, in Chapel Hill Township, on tax map # 25, lot 1 A on Weaver Dairy <br /> 19. Road, and was presently being utilized as a Montessori School. <br /> 20. The request was for the property to be rezoned Prime Commercial . Mr. <br /> 21. Polatty explained that rezoning the property to that category would <br /> 22. permit Class A service stations,offices and retail sales. Mr. Polatty <br /> 23. and Staff recommended denial of the request for three reasons: <br /> 24. 1--There were already two activity centers on Weaver Dairy Road; <br /> 25. one of these (Timberlyne) was presently allowed more commercial <br /> 26. property than was usually allowed under the Chapel Hill zoning <br /> 270 plan. <br /> 28. 2--The proposed Orange County Land Use Plan indicates that the <br /> 29. property lies in a transition area which is not in either an <br /> 30. urban or commercial node. <br /> 31. 3--The rezoning request would not be in with the <br /> 32. proposed Zoning Ordinance. <br /> Commander Deacon (?), 3275 Pacific Heights Road, Honolulu, Hawaii: <br /> 33. <br /> Mr. Deacon spoke in favor of the rezoning request saying the property <br /> 34- <br /> belonged to his daughter, Mary Henry. He said she wished to use the <br /> 35• <br /> property as physician's offices. Several physicians have expressed an <br /> 36, <br /> interest in the property for offices. <br /> 37. <br /> 330 <br /> 39, <br />