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7 not any motor vehicles' on the parcel. Th Zoning Officer has reviewed the application, the site plan and all suppo ing documentation and has found that no error was made in respect to this roperty in the Zoning Atlas when zoning was adopted for Bingham Township o September 2, 1981. The current owners of the property purchased the fir six acres on February 9, 1984. The twelve acre lot to the north was p hased in January of 1991. Jim Hinkley noted that currently there is a thr a bay garage on this property and automobiles are being refurbished. Parts a being taken off of automobiles in the salvage yard.and being used to refur ish automobiles to make them road worthy again. The parcel is also currently eing used for insurance purposes where damaged automobiles -are stored anti there is a determination by the insurance company on what to do with them It is also being used for the storage of cars which are towed off th streets of chapel Hill.. The recommendation is that, provided the Planni q Board and County Commissioners find in the negative, the Zoning Officer recommends disapproval of the request. COMMIS O d ISSIONERS O OARD In answer to a question from Mr. Waddell, Mr. Hinkley stated that the eastern most portion toward Ferguson ad is -in the upper most area of l-he University Lake. watersbed. PUBLIC COXXMs ROBERT SKITH, lawyer for the C J in this matter, stated that the only way Mr. Combs can continue this open is to rezone this property to EC-5. This would acknowledge that this sed for commercial purposes _at the time the zoning became effective ptember 2, 1982. This matter started with one complaint to the Orange ty zoning office in the fall of 1991. The property was purchased in May 79 by J-D. and Doris Martin for the purpose of storing junk cars and it w used for that purpose the entire time they owned the property. They called Orange County and was told that this was a permitted use. He stressed that If this is allowed to be rezoned, it will not be allowing anything new, but k continuation of something that has been there for quite some time. Mr. mbs has tried real hard to be a good neighbor. He has kept the cars away from the road and away from the adjoining property. He has kept a natural ier between where he keeps the cars and the adjacent property. In additior , after they bought the property, theme built a house on the property and that is where they live. No cars can b1f.seen from Ferguson Road. He presented i petition with 170 signatures .in support of this proposal. If the person WD complained about this property had approached Mr. Combs, he would have wo ed out the problems. One of the concerns was that there were too many cars Dn the property. In response to this complaint, Mr. Combs removed 200 carl from the property in December, 1991. Another concern was that Mr. Combs s working on cars. There is a garage on the property. Originally, Mr. ( ombs had applied for a building permit and received a certificate of occup ncy from Orange County to store some of his personal cars. He has applied f or a home occupation permit which would let Mr. Combs work on cars. Mr. Smith feels he can 'meet the requirements for that and work on cars =dex the present zoning. The problem. is that there is not a home occupation per it for storing cars. They went`; to the Board of Adjustment which suggested that they apply for a rezoning. '.