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far as affecting an existing business. Mr. Starckx was not concerned about expanding as all his property is developed as a salvage yard now, but he was concerned with the environmental requirements which are always changing, and the fact that, if he wanted to make an improvement to comply with those requirements, he now could not do so. Therefore, he felt the Commission, in effect, is giving the people across the street carte blanche and handicapping him. Discussion ensued as to whether Mr. Starckx would be allowed to make improvements to meet environmental restrictions. Director Keating did believe he would be allowed to because he felt that would be a lessening of the degree of the non- conformity, but that would be a judgment call. He clarified that staff's intent was not to take several businesses and make them non -conforming; the basic intent was to give the lowest accept- able zoning to existing businesses. Staff did not realize there were three salvage yards up there like this; so, they would like to take another look. Commissioner Wodtke personally felt we should treat all the salvage yards the same and that it would be unfair to do it any other way. Chairman Scurlock believed additional requirements for environmental concerns will arise and will force Mr. Starckx to make some changes, and he certainly should be able to do that. In further. discussion, it was noted that the County is lucky to have these salvage yards and over the years never has had a complaint about them. Mr. Starckx commented that just last year among all the eight salvage yards, they processed over 6,000 cars out of this county for resmelting. He stated he would appreciate the Board's consideration on this matter. r Commissioner Bird, speaking as Chairman of the Parks & Recreation Committee, noted that they need to have the operators 9 JAS 14 W6 soQ 63P,lic 234