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cl <br />BOOK &J . PAGE 203 <br />involves a question of rezoning property to conform with the Plan <br />and should not be before us tonight. <br />Planner Shearer confirmed that currently the majority of <br />property under discussion is zoned Agricultural; there is a part <br />of it zoned commercial which abuts Oslo Road; however, the*Land <br />Use designation is Agricultural. <br />Planning & Development Director Keating noted that this <br />would involve a Comprehensive Plan amendment because if this <br />property were included, it would be necessary either to eliminate <br />- some -other that -is in the node or to expand the node. <br />Planner Shearer further pointed out that the boundaries of <br />the node have been set by ordinance and would have to be amended. <br />He advised that staff is going to be looking at this node when <br />they look at the Comprehensive Plan amendments, and they will.be <br />accepting applications next month. <br />Chairman Scurlock believed the answer is that we are still <br />considering it, but it is not part of tonight's process. <br />Mr. Beischke stated that he just wanted to make sure they <br />could come back again about this and that it was not set in <br />concrete. <br />Mike Starckx, 1016 38th Avenue, came before the Board re his <br />salvage business which is on the north side of North Gifford Road <br />and has been established since 1967. He informed the Board that <br />there are five salvage yards on the south side of North Gifford <br />Road and three on the north side which abut each other. There <br />are no houses between them, but there are some on the outer <br />fringes. Mr. Starckx continued that the way Mr. Shearer <br />explained it, his five competitors across the street could put in <br />something such as an aluminum smelter which requires heavy <br />industrial land, if they had all the environmental permits, and <br />he could not do so although he has planned to. He realized that <br />there is a lot of heavy industrial property on North Gifford Road <br />that is not developed in salvage yards that the county feels <br />should be rezoned, and he would go along with that, but not as <br />8 <br />