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- December 19 , 1985 - Mr. Don Wilhoit Orange County Commissioner's Room 106 E. Margaret Lane Hillsborough, NC 28278 Dear Mr. Wilhoit: I am writing concerning the proposed rezoning of approximately 5 acres along highway 54 requested by P & S Sales. As you may know, the Planning Board did not recommend approval of the rezoning request after a very close vote. Because the minutes may not completely detail what the arguments were against this proposed rezoning, I wanted to briefly summarize them point by point in an effort to impress the BOCC that the decision not to approve is really the only choice available to the county at this time. (1) The applicant's stated reason for the rezoning is to use the extra land for sewage disposal and parking so that the existing building may be enlarged. Under the Zoning Ordinance, parking and waste disposal facilities for a business are required to be zoned identically to the business. If the rezoning were granted, P & S sales would be zoned GC4 and its parking and sewage, LC1. This is illegal. (2) Even if the entire parcel (nearly 10 acres) were zoned LC1 (to circumvent problem 4 1) , P & S Sales could not legally operate because they do not meet the application criteria for an LC1 designation. For example, in section 4.2 of the zoning ordinance, the LC1 and NC2 zones are intended for small local businesses serving the local neighborhood. When we wrote the ordinance, the typical example of this type of business was a "Mom and Pop" store. P & S Sales is a national mail order supply house and its operations can in no way be construed as serving a local clientele. This problem was recognized several years ago when the zoning ordinance was enacted. At that time P & S sales was not given an LCI zoning. Since it did not qualify for that designation, it was zoned GC4 , over my objections (please see 3 below)