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1.17 1 <br /> ORANGE C O U N T Y <br /> PLANNING BOARD <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date April , 1988 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # G <br /> SUBJECT: REQUEST TO INITIATE LEGAL ACTION - BENJAMIN PRATT <br /> ACTION BY: Immediate Action Required <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Don Powell <br /> Complaint/Inquiry Record <br /> Notification Letters to Mr. Pratt <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> Zoning Ordinance Provisions <br /> Photographs <br /> Administrative Search Warrant <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 - Ext. 345 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of a request to initiate legal <br /> proceedings against Benjamin Pratt for violation of <br /> the Orange county Zoning Ordinance. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property in question is located on Dairyland Road <br /> (SR 1112) in Chapel Hill Township. The property <br /> consists of 0 .53 acres and is zoned Rural Buffer (RB) . <br /> Legal action was initiated by Orange County in 1985 <br /> against Mr. Pratt for violation of Zoning Ordinance <br /> Section 6 . 16 . 7 (Storage of Junked or Wrecked Motor <br /> Vehicles) . The courts determined that more explicit <br /> meaning should be applied to "Junked or Wrecked Motor <br /> Vehicles" , and the Zoning Ordinance was amended on <br /> March 5, 1986 to reflect the refined definition. <br /> The amortizing effect created by the amendment allowed <br /> Mr. Pratt an additional two years from date of <br /> amendment to clear his property of junked vehicles and <br /> to come into compliance. The two year extension <br /> period ended March 5, 1988 and Mr. Pratt has been <br /> found to be in continued violation of the Orange <br /> County Zoning Ordinance - Section 6 . 16. 7 . <br />