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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 _AUgUst_14z 1987 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item 1 �? <br /> SUBJECT: Z-4-87 AUTOWERKS <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING _KC___Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S ) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br /> Application <br /> Project Summary <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> Agency Comments <br /> Certificate of Mai l ing <br /> Findings of Fact <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS : <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE : To receive citizen comment on a proposed request by Charles <br /> Miller and Merle Dancy to amend the Orange County Zoning <br /> Atlas. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property in question is located on the east side of N. C. <br /> Highway 86 north of New Hope Church Road ( SR 1723) and south <br /> of Old N.C. 10 . The applicants, Charles Miller and Merle <br /> Dancy, are requesting a rezoning on a portion of lot 1 of <br /> Tax Map 2 - Chapel Hill Township. The property that would be <br /> rezoned contains 41 , 480 square feet or 0 .95 acres. The <br /> current zoning on the property is Rural Residential (R 1 ) . <br /> The proposed zoning is Existing Commercial (EC-5 ) . The <br /> property is the present site of the Autowerks auto repair <br /> garage. <br /> The area is designated as Rural Residential in the Land Use <br /> Plan . The applicants maintain that the existing use was in <br /> operation in 1981 when Hillsborough Township was zoned and <br /> that an error was made at that time. The property was zoned <br /> R-1 and should have been designated Existing Commercial <br /> (EC-5 ) . <br /> RECOMMENDATION : The Planning Staff recommends denial of the proposed re- <br /> zoning for the following reasons : <br /> 1 . The lot proposed to be rezoned is totally surrounded by <br /> an R-1 residential zone. <br /> 2. The lot is not located in or near a commercial transi - <br />