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28 '. <br /> he was not sure that a building was needed to <br /> operate a business such as a junkyard. <br /> Hoecke agreed with Scott. <br /> Reid stated that the prior owner did not have <br /> a storage building on the site because he had <br /> a garage at another location and the lot in <br /> question was just simply a place to store the <br /> junked vehicles. <br /> Cantrell noted that perhaps Scearbo could <br /> help clarify this situation. Scearbo <br /> indicated she wished to respond to comments <br /> made about the aerial photographs. She <br /> continued that if you look at the affidavits <br /> and make the assumption that they are true, <br /> and that there are cars there somewhere, then <br /> they would be some place other than within . <br /> the ballfield. The two black and white <br /> aerials clearly show the_ ballfield, and there <br /> are no cars stored there. If there are <br /> vehicles in there somewhere that we cannot <br /> see in those photographs, then they would be <br /> somewhere in the perimeter. If that was the <br /> case when zoning went into effect, if we had <br /> known that the junked vehicles were out <br /> there, then, the EC-5 district could have <br /> been applied in some way around the edge of <br /> that ballfield taking up the area where the <br /> vehicles actually were. The EC-5 district <br /> would probably not have been applied to the <br /> extent that the expansion has occurred. I <br /> think it is clear from the recent photographs <br /> that something very significant happened in <br /> the interim from 1981 to the present. It is <br /> very clear that it has expanded and is now <br /> operating in an area within which it was <br /> clearly not operating in 1981. Scearbo noted <br /> again that, if there were junked vehicles <br /> stored among the trees that did not show on <br /> the earlier photographs, that would have been <br /> the only area that would or could have been <br /> zoned EC-5. What we are looking at now, is, <br /> if there was something that should have been <br /> zoned EC-5 at that time, then that is what <br /> the Board needs to deal with. What they've <br /> got there now does not match up. <br /> Waddell asked if this had been known, if an <br /> EC-5 district had been carved out around the <br /> 50 or 100 cars in the edge of the woods <br /> around the ball field and we were here today _ <br /> where he had expanded the operation into what <br /> was not an EC-5, would we be faced with the <br />