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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />306F REVERE ROAD <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br />r <br />v n <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Board of County Commissioners <br />From: Emily Cameron, ASLA Planner II/Landscape Architect eec <br />Subject: Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendment -Garden Center <br /> (Consent Agenda Item #8h) <br />Date: January 20, 1998 <br />Copies: John M. Link, Jr., County Manager <br /> Geof Gledhill, County Attorney <br /> Gene Bell, Planner III <br /> Beverly Blythe, Clerk to the Board <br /> Greg Shepard, Applicant <br />Following agenda review, the County Attorney provided additional comments on the <br />proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance pertaining to garden centers which were <br />presented at the November public hearing (Consent Agenda Item #8h). Attached is a copy <br />of the Permitted Use Table with one change: garden center is not proposed as a permitted <br />use in the Existing Commercial (EC-5) zoning district. The purpose and intent of the <br />Existing Commercial district is to accommodate uses. that existed at the time zoning was <br />first applied. Therefore, no new uses should be proposed in the EC-5 district. <br />The Administration recommends approval of the amendments to Articles 6 and 22 and the <br />revision to the Permitted Use Table as recommended by the County Attorney. <br />