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v <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 20, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Request for Assessment of Civil Penalties -- M. Henry Wilson Zoning Violation <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Location and Property. Map (3) <br />Chronology of Events (4) <br />Previous Notices of Zoning Violation (5 -6) <br />Notice of Site Inspection Request (7) <br />Notice of Assessment of Civil Penalties (8 -9) <br />Article 23 of the Zoning Ordinance (10 -11) <br />Request for Assessment of Civil Penalties (12- <br />13) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Tom King, Planner II, ext. 2607 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane <br />336 - 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the approval of the assessment of civil penalties for a <br />continuing zoning violation. <br />BACKGROUND: The prompt for this action is a recent, ongoing, complaint regarding <br />an illegal automobile maintenance and repair garage, as well as discussions with the <br />County Attorney's Office. The specific events that have led to the neccesity to assess <br />civil penalties in relation to this matter are noted in the attached Chronology of Events <br />(Attachment 2). <br />The property in question is a six (6) acre lot owned by Marion Henry Wilson, Jr. and <br />Nancy Wilson, and is located at 1220 and 1302 Ferguson Road (SR 1948) in Bingham <br />Township (Attachment 1). The front portion of the property is zoned RB (Rural <br />Buffer) /UNIV -PW (University Lake Protected Watershed), and the rear portion is zoned <br />AR (Agricultural Residential) /HAW -PW (Haw River Protected Watershed). The portion <br />of the site containing the violation (Wilson and Staples Automotive) is zoned RB /UNIV- <br />PW. <br />In the early 1990's, the site was the operation of a junkyard /automobile salvage <br />business owned and operated by Donald Wayne Combs, who claimed that the use <br />existed when the Township was zoned in 1981. In 1992, Mr. Combs applied for a <br />