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_ 1 OR AN G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 4. 1991 Action Agenda Item # X- 5 SUBJECT: ZONING ENFORCEMENT CASES (CIVIL PENALTIES) DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x —No ATTACHMENT(S): Summaries of Four Zoning Cases Excerpts of BOCC Minutes of November 5, and December 18, 1990 INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Hinkley Extension 2584 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To request that the Board of County Commissioners consider making written demand for payment of civil penalties in four respective cases. BACKGROUND: On December 18, 1990, the Board considered making written demand for payment of civil penalties for zoning violations on four properties. Two property owners - -Lori B. and Nathan McDuffie and Gayle and Chris McMillan -- were given second extensions until January 17, 1991 to bring their properties into compliance. Both the McDuffies and McMillans have been contacted personally and by telephone, respectively. Both made assurances that their properties would be brought into compliance by January 17. As of January 23, 1991, in both cases, little or no perceivable additional progress to correct violations was observed. Civil penalties have been assessed by the Planning and Inspections Department for ongoing violations of the Zoning Ordinance by Christy B. Merritt and Albert E. Davis, and Carl Swanson. The ordinance provides that the duty to make written demand for payment of civil penalties upon persons responsible for violatins lies with the Board of County Commissioners. RECOMMENDATION: The Administration recommends that the Board of County Commissioners take the following actions: