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<br /> ,-:'r--cART•5;Olta—Adanx and Eve,
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<br /> . the mu;.-•aillion dollar mail order
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<br /> i ' business specializing in sexually
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<br /> ., 1.42 ! --oriented products, will leave 0.,-
<br /> i7.-•ange County within a v - aad
<br /> 1 ! build a $2'.milliim f--, .., in
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<br /> -"Ala:mance County.' . •
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<br /> ; ':•-..ext;rilsanclraintedOr-!?gethCeioruntr:Cointspato-
<br /> i-! ny officials said problems with .
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<br /> i ...‘county zoning regulations• had •:,
<br /> prompted the move.
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<br /> : - ..yire ran into all sorts id zoning _
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<br /> "problerns,".' said' RiChard -W. .. .,-.."
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<br /> "Skip"Loy Jr, company opera-
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<br /> ? tions director.,"They(county offi- -
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<br /> 'n'dialt)• wouldn't budge,:and we ..
<br /> . ,"2t. :lbe Hews anti ObsOeer.flarsigk Mt.Sat:JelY 20;1985 •0 .
<br /> _ __ . .:can't wait.”---...;" --.•• '--::::•. ".....;.• .,
<br /> • -Adam.and-Eve had planned to . .
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<br /> i::r add 40,20ef'square feet of ware-
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<br /> ".,lime-and'office space to its
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<br /> -3$,000-square-foot.facility seven. .
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<br /> • . . ' '''•nines•west of.Carrhtiro,• but the
<br /> •:exPiansion.would'havO.called-or.
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<br /> — \- --=the area to be rezoned to allow
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<br /> 1.':-Ada- ni'an'd Ev'e- - :: - ,..,-,.....jr-also would have made.-
<br /> . .. . -necessary-a revision of the court- . . ' •
<br /> ty's land-use plan, a longrange'•
<br /> rti--:planuing move . -blueprint for growth,said IVfarvin : .
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<br /> -: E. Collins, county planning direc-
<br /> 1 --to-.cuamance : . , tor.-In the current.plaztcornmer- .-
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<br /> •.:-allowed in the area that would
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<br /> have contained the expansion.
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<br /> The process; Loy said, would
<br /> have taken up to a year—time _
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<br /> that-he said the aggressive corn- ,
<br /> . puny does not have,
<br /> '•."--Instead, PHE Inc.; the parent l
<br /> 3- company'of Adam-and Eve, will 'I
<br /> ',.•:•.-take the coinpany's$20.million-a-
<br /> - .''year business and 130 employees
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<br /> 1 — half -of whom live in- each
<br /> I -county.—about-four miles west to
<br /> i 42.acres of unzoned land in Ala-
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<br /> inance County.Within a year,Loy
<br /> :-'•said he hoped to see on the site a
<br /> • • ..-: $2 •:million, 75,000-square-foot
<br /> . :e.•:-building- to house the rapidly
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<br /> i.--.. Irpanding business. The Orange -..
<br /> County facility will be sold, he •
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<br /> ... The business now handles about
<br /> ..550,000 orders per year,Loy said,
<br /> i and he expects sales to double '
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<br /> I:. within five years. ' .• -' •
<br /> 7. • '"This certainly will be a siptifi-- '
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<br /> 1 . cant loss to Orange County,"said
<br /> " 'Sylvia F. Price, director of the
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<br /> - Orange County Economic Devel-
<br /> .- •oPment.Commission.. "I'm very •
<br /> I•"sorry to see them go.".
<br /> " Ms. Price said the company's
<br /> 1. future-was clouded by the coun-
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<br /> • trs-1981 zoning ordinance, which
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<br /> generally requires businesses and
<br /> industries to request specific zon-
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<br /> ing categories m areas where they
<br /> - plan to locate.
<br /> - "It really is a very difficult
<br /> problem," she said in an inter-
<br /> view Friday.The ordinance needs
<br /> • to be reviewed, "but.you can't
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