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18 not any motor vehicles- on the parcel. The Zoning Officer has reviewed the application, the site plan and all supporting 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 being used for insurance purposes where damaged automobiles -are stored unti 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 Office recommends disapproval of the request. CaMMMS OR OVEST. IONS BOARD OF CQ XrSSIONERS OR TRZ VLAWaNG BOARD In answer to a question from Mr. Waddell, Mr. Hinkley stated that the eastern most portion toward Ferguson IDad is -in the upper most area of l:he University Lake. watershed. PUBLIC COMMENTS ROBERT SMITH, lawyer for the C in this matter, stated that the only way Mr. Combs can continue this operat on is to rezone this property to EC-5. This would acknowledge that this wa used for commercial purposes at the time the zoning became effective on eptember 2, 1981. This matter started with one complaint to the Orange C ty zoning office in the fall of 1991. The property was purchased in May of 979 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 calls Orange County and was told that this was a permitted use. He stressed that U this is allowed to be rezoned, it will not be allowing anything new, but 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 additiv after they bought the property, they built a house on the property and tha is where they live. No cars can bl.4een from Ferguson Road. He presented petition with 170 signatures in support of this proposal. If the person w 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 n the property. In response to this complaint, Mr. Combs removed 200 car 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. 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 r 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 and the present zoning. The problem is that there is not a home occupation pe it for storing cars. They went; to the Board of Adjustment which suggested that they apply for a rezoninq. �.