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MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bowman, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Wheeler, to adopt Ordinance 88-3, re- <br />pealing and recreating the Home Occupation Section <br />of the ROSE -4 Zoning District Regulations as presented <br />by staff. <br />Commissioner Bird wished to have clarified just what effect <br />it will have on existing businesses if the Motion passes. <br />Director Keating explained that any business that can <br />provide satisfactory evidence that it has been in place since <br />February 24, 1982, would be grandfathered in and subject to the <br />normal grandfathering provisions of the ordinance. <br />Commissioner Bird felt we are saying that area is predomi- <br />nantly residential, or at least in our future planning should <br />become predominantly residential, but we are willing to accept <br />businesses that have been bona fide for a period of five years. <br />Attorney Vitunac stated that the only other choice he would <br />recommend would be to forget the five years and require the <br />businesses to have been legal when they originated. These <br />businesses could have been illegal from the beginning of the <br />Zoning Code; the county is giving these people a break by giving <br />them the years up until 1982; and he felt this is arbitrary only <br />in that it is giving a break to people whom we otherwise could <br />proceed against. <br />Commissioner Wheeler stated that he is only interested in <br />giving people a break who have been operating legally and in good <br />faith for several years - not those who have been "in the <br />woodwork," so to speak, and only decide to come out now because <br />they see an opportunity to be overlooked and get a license. <br />Commissioner Bird noted that he probably will vote for the <br />Motion; although, he believed at some point we told the busi- <br />nesses up there to come out of the woodwork, get the occupational <br />license, and we will grandfather you in. They did that and now <br />we are changing that if they haven't been there five years. <br />57 <br />JAN 19 1988 POOK 70 ,F 617 <br />