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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date Octob.er 6.1_120 <br /> Action,4g nda <br /> item f <br /> SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING __ -- PUBLIC HEARING Yes ._.X__ No <br /> Attachment(s) Information Contact: JANE GARRETT <br /> Location Map <br /> Ordinance Excerpt <br /> Telephone Numbers -� <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a request to authorize the County Attorney to <br /> initiate legal proceedings for a zoning violation on property. <br /> owned by Charles and Marilyn McLamb . <br /> NEED: Administrative procedures to address this zoning violation have <br /> been exhausted. Staff is requesting that legal proceedings be <br /> initiated to bring the property owner into compliance with the <br /> Orange County Zoning Ordinance. The violation is as follows: <br /> CHARLE$_AND_ MAR ELYll_ U <br /> CHEEKS TWP. TAX MAP 51A LOT 2 <br /> SEVEN MILE FALLS <br /> The property owner is operating a Motor Vehicle Repair Shop <br /> (See attached map) . A garage which serves as the shop was <br /> being constructed on the property without building and zoning <br /> permits. The property owner was notified of the required <br /> permits of which he obtained. The restrictions on the building <br /> permit stated that the "garage is for single family home and <br /> will not be used for business" . The property is zoned R-1 <br /> (Rural Residential ) . Use of the property for a motor vehicle <br /> repair shop Is not permitted in a R--1 district. <br /> The property owner was notified of the zoning violations on <br /> September 30, 1985, August 4, 1986, August 29, 1986 and Sep- <br /> tember 4, 1986 . Mr. McLamb was informed of the violation of <br /> the commercial garage on all occasions. <br /> The motor vehicle repair shop is still in operation with vary- <br /> ing numbers of vehicles on site frequently. <br /> IMPACT: Article 23 V IV I OLALLQtLS PEBALTI E_AnD_RFMEQIE1 of the Orange <br />