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100 2 <br /> (Commissioners' Book 14, Pages 513-514 (attached)) which refer to certain <br /> nonconforming uses represented on the maps as unnumbered commercial uses. <br /> In the fall of 1981 Charles Miller and Merle Dancy owned and operated <br /> Autowerks, a business specializing in the repair of foreign automobiles. <br /> Autowerks is located on the east side of Highway 86 on the northwest <br /> portion of a seven acre parcel owned by Beth Braxton (thus Ms. Braxton, and <br /> not Mr. Miller or Mr. Dancy would have been notified in 1981 of the <br /> proposed zoning) . This business had been in continuous operation on that <br /> site since May, 1980. This seven acre tract is split by the Chapel Hill <br /> Township_Hillsborough Township line. The entire portion of the property <br /> which is in Chapel Hill Township is a power easement owned by Duke Power <br /> Co. The Autowerks operation is located wholly in Hillsborough Township and <br /> has continued at this location to the present. <br /> The seven acre tract on which Autowerks is located was identified as a <br /> commercial use on the 1981 Chapel Hill Township map of existing commercial <br /> uses (documentation evidencing the existence and operation of Autowerks at <br /> this location in September, 1981 is included in this application), even <br /> though, as indicated above, the entire Autowerks operation is located in <br /> Hillsborough Township. However, a number does not appearnon the map at the <br /> Autowerks location nor do the charts which assigned commercial zoning <br /> classifications to existing commercial uses include Autowerks. Finally, <br /> Planning Staff Memoranda do not list Autowerks as a commercial use intended <br /> to be nonconforming. <br /> JUSTIFICATION <br /> A careful reading of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance reveals that <br /> the Ordinance required EC-5 zoning to be applied to the property in <br />