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are selling quantities of cars out of your home, basically that is operating a business out of your home. The state has certain requirements before you can have a dealers permit, but that is different than our zoning ordinance. Mr. Horton asked how the Town was going to define a business because the state law says he could sell ten cars. Attorney Currens answered that was a state requirement. Mr. Horton asked what the Town Ordinance said as to how many cars he could sell. Attorney Currens answered it doesn't say, it is whether or not you are operating a business out of your home. Mr. Horton declared he was not operating a business. Attorney Currens said we are going to continue to watch to see ifhe is still selling cars out of his yard. Weare going to see if multiple cars are for sale on a daily basis. Selling for profit is a business. Investing in cars for resale is a business. Mark Taylor, 331 Bridge Street, appeared before the commission with a letter of complaint conceming the Bolton A venue Apartments. He told the commission there was a tarp on the roof and it was blowing everywhere, windows were broken out, at one end semis were parking, and the other end had an abandoned car. The commission looked at the pictures. This property is zoned industrial and part of it is a non-conforming use, residential use. Attorney Currens had been contacted thru Holloway Engineering questioning what they could or could not do to the property, whether to re-hab, rezone, or how much they wanted to invest. Attorney Currens had contacted and talked with Mr. Beikman and get back with them on some alternatives. Mr. Beikman said the buildings were borderline unsafe buildings, which that action could be filed also. Mr. Holloway told the commission the man who owns the property lives in California and has a person locally that manages the properties. They looked into renovating from top to bottom that would cost in excess of$160,000, but would still have a block apartment building, so they talked about demolishing it and putting back nice units. The building barely fits on the property so they had asked him to talk to the Town to try to work something out. If we had our druthers it would be rezoning to R-3, tearing down the buildings and rebuilding nice units. He did not think it would meet the requirements for Section 8 housing because no play area, parking is limited, and no green space. In the meantime Mr. Holloway will call the owner to see about cleaning up the debris. Redevelopment Plan Approval: Attorney Currens told the commission they work to look at the plan to see ifthey thought it was consistent with the master use plan and then pass this on to the Town Council. What they were looking at was an amendment to the original plan and the only reason they were looking at was the added 97 acres adjoining TOA, which was recently annexed to the Town and because the expansion was in excess of 20 percent of the original district they had to go thru this full process. Amendments were also added addressing certain projects, which one of them the commission had looked at recently, was a thoroughfare plan and dealing with traffic issues. A motion was made by Commissioner McGuire with a second by Commissioner Bruner to find this amendment consistent with the Master Land Use Plan. Motion carried 6-0. There is a Public Hearing scheduled. Building Inspector, Joe Beikman, reported forty-four (44) permits and eighty-five (85) inspections.