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4 <br /> initiated a text amendment to establish regulations governing the development and <br /> operation of automotive sales. <br /> Staff has seen an increase in the number of automotive sale business operating <br /> within the County and has begun receiving complaints related to the storage and <br /> display of vehicles being offered for sale, specifically too many cars being placed on <br /> a parcel of property blocking or impeding access for both customers and emergency <br /> vehicles. In certain instances, cars have been parked in required land use buffer <br /> areas killing required landscaping or have been encroaching into adjacent rights-of- <br /> way creating additional enforcement problems. <br /> Staff is proposing to develop comprehensive regulations designed to limit the <br /> overcrowding of automotive sales operations within all general use zoning districts <br /> where such land uses are permitted. <br /> 2. Analysis <br /> As required under Section 2.8.5 of the UDO, the Planning Director is required to: <br /> `cause an analysis to be made of the application and, based upon that analysis, <br /> prepare a recommendation for consideration by the Planning Board and the Board of <br /> County Commissioners'. <br /> Automotive sales are allowed in the following general use zoning districts as a <br /> permitted use (i.e. administrative approval) of property: <br /> 1. Neighborhood Commercial (NC-2)with special standards; <br /> 2. General Commercial (GC-4); <br /> 3. Existing Commercial (EC-5); <br /> 4. Existing Industrial (El); <br /> 5. Light Industrial (I-1); <br /> 6. Medium Industrial (1-2); <br /> 7. Heavy Industrial (1-3); <br /> 8. Economic Development Eno High Intensity (EDE-2); and <br /> 9. Master Planned Development Conditional Zoning (MPD-CZ) district. <br /> This use is also permitted within the Economic Development Buckhorn Low and High <br /> Intensity (EDB-1 and EDB-2) districts with the review and approval of a Conditional <br /> Use (i.e. a rezoning and Class A Special Use Permit) application by the BOCC. <br /> Currently, the County limits only the total number of cars that can be parked and/or <br /> displayed for an automotive sales business located within the Neighborhood <br /> Commercial (NC-2) general use zoning district. It should be noted that staff has an <br /> active code enforcement case against an existing business along Highway 70 within <br /> the Cheeks Township. <br /> The amendments are necessary to address congestion at automotive sales operations <br /> due to too many vehicles being displayed for sale. <br /> 2 <br />