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32 <br /> would have been zoned EC-5 then, is what <br /> would have been the zoning lot. You have to <br /> put yourselves in the minds of the people who <br /> were doing this in 1981-and decide what kind <br /> of zoning lot they would- have created for <br /> this use. Probably they would have included <br /> the area where the cars were. How much <br /> additional area would they have included. <br /> You have to frankly guess, because there is <br /> no evidence about that. I think you can <br /> assume that it would be at least 40,000 sq. <br /> ft. lot because that's probably the smallest <br /> one of these that we have. It could be <br /> greater than that but you really have to kind <br /> of a mind reader and put yourself back at <br /> that time and figure out what they would have <br /> done then. If you can do that, then you can <br /> rezone this property to EC-5 to correct an <br /> error in the 1981 Zoning Atlas. <br /> .Gray asked is not one o4,.the key words in <br /> .this whole issue the woI commercial. You <br /> may have had stories of automobiles because a <br /> man stored cars upon a piece of property. <br /> But storage of automobiles is not necessarily <br /> a commercial operation, am I not correct? <br /> Gledhill responded that if it is the man's <br /> own collection of wrecked vehicles then it is <br /> not a commercial use. Gray responded that <br /> everything from the public hearing indicates <br /> that he did store vehicles out there. <br /> Gledhill stated that you would have to <br /> determine that in 1981, storage of vehicles <br /> and whatever else was done to these vehicles <br /> was done for commercial purpose. That is <br /> "something else you would have to determine. <br /> Hoecke noted that the affidavits stated the <br /> man worked on cars at his home on Mt. Carmel <br /> Church Road and needed a place to store parts <br /> and cars and that's why they wound up over <br /> there. That is repeated over and over. He <br /> worked on cars elsewhere and needed a place <br /> to store the cars and did on this property. <br /> Reid stated because his Mom and Dad owned it. <br /> Reid continued that he knew that there were <br /> junked cars on the property. in 1979. Be <br /> stated that Kenny Martin and Wayne Combs <br /> actually built hotrod cars and this was the <br /> place where they worked bn them, but, there <br /> was no building. i <br /> Gledhill asked to make a statement about the <br />