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Holloway answered he would have to check into this issue after a rezone was approved. Commissioner Bruner asked about the utilities easement on the property and Mr. Holloway said this issue would have to be faced after the rezone. Rita Secrest, owner of Straight from the Heart, a business in the business strip behind this lot told the commission that anything on the lot was going to cause a problem for all of the business owners on that comer. She asked why rezone to a B-3 rather than get a variance to a B-2. Mr. Holloway responded that an auto sales could not be done in a B-2 zoning with a variance. Mrs. Secrest said she understands the dilemma of what to put on that property but the people knew the zoning of the lot when they bought. Vena Holden, Selective Seconds Shop, said she respects the owner wanting to get this lot rezoned, but she thinks this will make it harder for traffic to see them behind the auto sales lot. She said she also thinks the traffic will be bottlenecked more off of 67 and and this will obstruct vision to the other business in the strip. She said if a rezone was granted she would like to see a pylon sign to promote their businesses. Diane Justus, owner of Muddy Waters, told the commission their businesses were already hidden and they were really going to get covered up by an Auto sales lot or storage buildings and there are already a lot of auto sales lots and storage buildings all up and down Highway 67. Gwen Comer, a homeowner on the access told the commission she was concerned with using this same access with a business. Diane Justus asked if something was going to be changed with this access because it was so close to the right turn lane. Mr. Holloway said they would have to work with the State's requirements and determinations. Commissioner Young told Mrs. Holden the commission could not promise a pylon sign because just the rezone was being considered with this board. Bradley Lane, a homeowner on the access road, told the commission his concern was the access road because it was a very dangerous intersection and the State had never taken care of the weeds around the road. He was under the impression the State used this road for their equipment. Joe Beikman, Building Inspector, asked if this was a Rezone to B-3 with a restriction. The answer was 'yes' and they could use a B-2. Commissioner McGuire read paragraph 4 of the Comprehensive Plan that stated that corner should be left open. Brad Lane asked for the B-2 uses to be read. Some of the uses are a deli, bakery, convenience stores, restaurants, dry cleaners, bookstore, etc. Commissioner McGuire recollected that on the east side of Highway 67, a B-3 zoning was tumed down by the Plan Commission and the Town Council. Mr. Holloway said his clients had tried to tailor so as to have something that was low- generating traffic. Mr. Haggard told the commission the building would have to be built on one side of the power lines and that would be the sales office and it would not be a big building. Commissioner Young said this was a major corridor to Mooresville and a car lot was not as pleasant of business as some other businesses. Mr. Holloway said that a building could not be put on the south end of the lot because the lot had not been filled with clean fill. Commissioner Pygrnan stated that within two miles in either direction on Highway 67 there were car lots and he could not understand the need for another.