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Planning Beard member Kizer asked if the Corporation would hook up to the planned Rangewood Subdivision sewer line when it was installed; Mr Maffei said he hadn't thought about it but probably would hook up to,the line. Planning Board member Irvin asked about the disposal of sawdust; Mr. Maffei said a local farmer collected it from the central vacuum system and he didn't know what the farmer did with it. Chairw=on Crawford said the Land Use Plan amendment and rezoning requests for the Murphy School area would be considered jointly. All Planning Staff reccavendatitns are attached to these minutes.- Mr. Jim Polatty, Planning Director, made the presentation to the Boards. He said the request was for a change in the Land Use Plan for this area from I Rural Residential to Twenty-year Transition; ComTe=ial Transition Activity node which, with the requested rezoning, would make all existing Commercial. uses conforming. Mr. Polatty said the requested change is not appropriate for the neighborhood; that the existing commercial uses could have been covered in a request for a Rural Neighborhood node. Planning Staff recommends denial of the amendments to the Iand Use Plan because the intensity of development that would be allowed with the requested designation and application criteria set forth for Community Com ercial,Transition are inappropriate for the area. Mr. Polatty listed alternatives: 1) designation of a Rural Neighborhood node; or ..2) change the application criteria of Existing xcial-5 zoning district to allow it to be' used in previously zoned townships. The Planning Staff also recommends denial of the rezoning requests because the "scale and intensity of development allowed by the request would-be inappro- priate for this location. There are no urban services available to this area, and the existing commercial uses do not serve a large portion of county residents-" Planning suggested alternatives for the rezoning request: 1) create a Rural Neighborhood node; "amend the Permitted Use Table to allow motor vehicle repair and maintenance in the Neighborhood Cmuercial-2 zcning district;" and, 2) "Change the application criteria of the Existing Ommercial-5 district, from application in unzoned townships to all townships, and rezone the properties to j the M-5 district." chairwoman Crawford asked that those in favor of the requests speak first. Mr. Arthur Vann, an attorney who represented those applying for the Land Use Plan amendment and the rezoning, spoke first. He said these were people who i