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14 <br /> Orange County Planning Board and County Commissioners <br /> My name is Anthony Cecil, I am the President of the Efland Ruritan Club. <br /> Efland Ruritan Club requests that our property at 3009 Forrest Ave and <br /> 3100 Forrest Ave Efland NC 27243 be changed from Zoning Ordinance <br /> Residential R-1 to General Commercial 4 Use designation. <br /> We are making this request for several reasons. <br /> 1. We are a nonprofit civic organization who purchased this property <br /> in 1981 from the Orange County School Board. This property was <br /> previously used as the Old Efland High School and Efland <br /> Elementary School before we purchased it. Since then, we have <br /> used the property for community use and community <br /> improvement. No one has ever lived on the property, and we feel <br /> the property should have never been designated as a residential <br /> (r-1) property but instead should have been designated as <br /> Commercial Property from the beginning. <br /> 2. We use and rent out our property for community use more in line <br /> with commercial uses than residential uses. <br /> A) We, the Efland Ruritan Club, have held events such as rodeos, <br /> carnivals, concerts, festivals etc. from the time we acquired the <br /> property until today. We do this to help pay for our property <br /> and to help improve our facilities for community use such as <br /> playgrounds, walking tracks etc. We also raise money to donate <br /> to our county and community emergency services, schools, <br /> churches, scholarships, people in need etc. <br />