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Next on the agenda was a letter addressing an illegal business in a residential area on the sound end of Interurban Lane off Crosby Road. Mr. Currens said he would normally send a letter, but since there was no address he would turn it over to Mr. Beikman to investigate. Mr. McGuire said that he and Mr. Pygman went out to see what was going on and there is a slaughtering business going on, with a sign on Crosby Road advertising the business. Mr. Williarnson said it was not a slaughtering business, there is no animals killed on sight, but they do process deer there. The area is zoned agriculture. Mr. McGuire asked if processing deer if illegal in agriculture area. Mr. Currens said that was why he was asking Mr. Beikman to check on what was happening and how it would fall within our ordinance as an agriculture use. Mr. Darin Carr, 10830 Interurban Lane, is the person who does the deer processing gave a letter to the Board and Mr. Beikman stating his position. Mr. Currens said this not about who agrees with it or not, but if the zoning is proper. Next on the agenda was Herbert and Linda Asher, 103 W. High Street, requesting a rezone from R-I to R-3 to convert garage into two apartments. Mr. Archer stated that there was an apartment over the garage when they bought the property. Their daughter lives in that apartment that has been there about eight or nine years and they would like to convert the bottom of the garage into an apartment. Mr. Williarnson said that the apartment as been there at least fifteen years. Mr. Currens asked if what they were asking was for two units in the garage and the existing house and they said that was correct. Each unit would have two bedrooms and their house has four bedrooms. Mr. Currens asked if they had a building permit on the current construction that was being done and Mrs. Archer said they only had an electrical permit. Mr. Williamson said there was a problem with the parking and Mrs. Archer said they park in the driveway. She said there was parking on the street also. Mr. Young asked what was the size of the lot and Mrs. Archer said she did not know the lot size. They asked if there was room for off street parking, because there could be as many as four vehicles in the area and Mr. Archer said there was room behind the garage of parking. Mr. Erhhart said the zoning does not provide for parking on the street and Mrs. Archer said there was room the parking behind the garage, all they would need was to have the area graveled. Mr. Crouch said he felt it would help the Board members if they had a drawing showing lot size, garage size, house size, parking area and what his proposals are. Mr. Archer was asked if the driveway was large enough to get their car and the cars for the apartment. Mr. Archer said it was as long no one was parked in the driveway. Mr. Williamson stated he did not feel there was ample space for parking of other vehicles back there. Mr. Williamson said back where the shed was would have to be filled in to allow for parking. Mr. Currens said he was looking at the definition for R-3 and he is not sure this in an R-3. R-3 is generally one structure with three or more units in it. This is one structure with two unites in the back and a single family dwelling on the front of the property. He said a zoning ordinance arnendments means that property no matter what's on it is now going to be R-3 from this point on and anyone could later could tear down the existing structures and build an apartment of three or more units if they wanted to. Mr. Currens said that maybe a request for a Variance instead of a rezone might be a better choice for the Archer's to make. Mr. Williarnson stated he did not feel this was the best use for this property and that Mr.