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04 <br /> ORANGE C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 31, 1995 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item #.,D 1 c) <br /> SUBJECT: Z-3-95 Marion Henry Wilson, Jr. and Nancy Wilson <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING X Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Mary Willis X2583 <br /> Vicinity Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Correspondence from County Attorney <br /> Public Hearing, Planning Board, and Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Commissioners Minutes from Combs Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Rezoning (Z-3-92) Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment concerning the land use which <br /> existed on a .92-acre parcel (6.37B. .6A) when Bingham <br /> Township was initially zoned on September 2, 1981. <br /> BACKGROUND: On November 2, 1993, the Board of Commissioners approved the <br /> rezoning a .92-acre portion of a 6-acre lot located on the <br /> west side of Ferguson Road, between Old Greensboro Highway <br /> and Jones Ferry Road, from Rural Buffer (RB) to Existing <br /> Commercial (EC-5) . The property was owned by Donald Wayne <br /> Combs, who was operating an automobile storage and salvage <br /> business on a portion of his lot. The Board of <br /> Commissioners approved the rezoning on the basis that the <br /> property was being used for automobile storage and salvage <br /> when Bingham Township was initially zoned on September 2, <br /> 1981, and that it should have been zoned EC-5 at that time. <br /> The decision to rezone the property was appealed to Superior <br /> Court. The Court ruled the evidence submitted during the <br /> public hearing was insufficient to justify the rezoning of <br /> the property and remanded the case (sent it back) to the <br /> Board of Commissioners for further consideration. <br /> Intent of EC-5 District <br /> The EC-5 existing Commercial Zoning district is generally <br /> applied only upon initial adoption of zoning of a township, <br /> to properties located outside of activity nodes or <br />