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ACU(03 MOORESVILLE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS MINUTES APRIL 10, 2003 The Mooresville Board of Zoning Appeals met on April 10, 2003 at 7:00 P. M. at the Mooresville Town Hall. Board members present were: Alan Kramer, Chairman, Chris Crouch, Don Barry, and Jon Swisher. Mike Young was absent. Town Attorney, Tim Currens, was present. Motion was made by Don Barry, second by Chris Crouch, to approve the minutes as amended for the March 13, 2003 meeting. Motion carried 4-0. Next on the agenda was Darren&Tammy Karr, 10830 Interurban Lane, requesting a Variance to operate a butchering business at his home. Mr. Karr stated that he wanted to run a seasonal business for deer processing at his home. Mr. Kramer asked if wanted to run this business during the deer hunting season and Mr. Karr said it would basically between October, November and December deer season. He basically busy the first two weeks of October. Mr. Kramer asked what plans he had to the by-products,parking and that sort of thing and Mr. Karr said Ray's Trash Service put in a dumpster for him, he does not special permits for dumping, because there is no by-products,just bones and some time furs. They do not require him to have a permit. Mr. Kramer asked if he would run this out of his house. Mr. Karr said he was. He said he lived in basically a 30' by 70' garage and one end is his house and the other end would be his business. Mr. Kramer asked if any of the board members had any questions. Mr. Barry asked what classification this would fall under? Mr. Currens said there was not a pacific classification. Mr. Karr said he was zoned agriculture. Mr. Currens said this would not be an agriculture use since people were coming in from off site. Mr. Crouch asked if he was proposing the processing inside the building and Mr. Karr said he was. Basically it was a three-car garage, one bay for cooler and freezers, middle bay for skinning and the other bay are for butchering and everything is enclosed. Mr. Barry asked if the Board of Health required him to have a permit and Mr. Karr said they did not. He has had Gregg Austin, who is a state inspector, to look at his place and he said he did not need a permit, a he was sanitary and he did not see that any thing was wrong. Mr. Karr said he had contacted the Morgan County Board of Health and they did not require any permits. Mr. Barry asked if he would be doing any retailing and he said if would only be processing. They come an bring the deer, fill out a slip, he keeps it with the deer, then he process it,package it up and give it back to them. He does 75% of his business the first two week of deer season. Mr. Kramer asked if there was a comment from the audience. Mr. Mike Swango, 2015 Crosby Road, stated that his property was adjacent to Mr. Karr's could not say he was against it and he has been doing this for the past two year that he has lived there. Mr. Swango said that the first year two deer legs were in his yard, but after that it has not been a problem. His question was why all of a sudden does he need a zoning change since has been operating this business. After he had the deer legs he