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APR ® 8 1992- BOOK Community Development Director Robert Keating advised that they would be grandfathered in as long as they retained their same characteristics. If they expand the use, they become non- conforming and have to meet new criteria. Commissioner.Scurlock just felt there needs to be a stepping point for these grandfathered facilities when they become non- conforming to allow them to renovate or expand in a way that is not absolutely perfect, just reasonable. He felt that allowing something like that would result in significant improvement to lot of these little businesses that are not too nice looking and that it would be a benefit to the community. Director Keating noted that there is a provision in the ordinances to allow someone to go ahead and make improvements if it is reducing the degree of non -conformity, and we have implemented that a number of times. Director Boling explained that what the ordinances require right now is sort of a stepping process. If you trigger a major site plan, then you have to bring it up to code for the area of development that is being affected by the change. If you do minor improvements, you don't get hit for bringing it up to code. The ordinance tries to address that. Commissioner Wheeler noted that we have that problem now where they have built up around these places and economics are playing, and the owners want to make improvements but want some sort of a break where they don't have to bring it all the way up to standards. He agreed it would be a benefit to the community to allow them to make improvements. Commissioner Scurlock felt it would be beneficial if staff could identify those things that are so important that they just have to be done as opposed to the things that are just nice to have. Mr. Graves pointed out that the building they want to use for a child care center is basically unusable if it triggers all of the 12