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~J 7 aov U PrE 971 that no one has notified the Planning Department regarding the request. There being no one present wishing to speak for or against this request, Ms. Powell presented drawings of the property and answered questions from the Boards for the following: Petition by Joseph Weeks to rezone a total of 43.11 acres of land located at 8725 Old E. C. Womack Road, a private road which intersects with Buckhorn Road, from Residential Agricultual District to Residential Mixed Conditional Use District. The petitioner proposes to locate a manufactured home park on the property. Speaking in favor of the request, Mr. Joseph Weeks stated that he resides on the property and will oversee the ten-lot manufactured home park. When questioned about the road access to the proposed park, Ms. Powell stated that E. C. Womack Road is a graveled "cart path" and the Planning Board will have to address the issue of whether or not the road will provide proper access to the park. Ms. Powell noted that the road is privately owned and relatively well maintained by the owners involved. After all persons had been given an opportunity to speak on this request, Ms. Powell presented a recommendation to amend the Zoning ordinance as follows: Amend Ar.t_ic1e....VI_II D,i,mensional Requireme.nts,,....... Section...,l. Table_ of..Area ..,._and Yard Requirements of The Zoning ordinance of Lee County.,,., North Carolina to change the front yard setback from 35 feet to 30 feet in the Residential Agricultural, Residential Mixed, and Residential Restricted District. Ms. Powell stated that the change would be consistent with The Subdivision Ordinanceof Lee County, which requires a front yard setback of 30 feet in the Residential Agricultural, Residential Mixed, and Residential Restricted District. There was no one present wishing to speak for or against this request. After all persons desiring to speak had been given an opportunity to be heard, Commissioner Cox moved to close the public hearing. Commissioner Hall seconded the motion, and upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Cox, Hall, Matthews, Paschal, Reives, Stafford, and Wicker Nay: None The Chairman declared the motion had been unanimously adopted and the public hearing closed. Upon the Planning Board's departure from the meeting, Chairman Stafford welcomed Mr. Fred Webb as a newly appointed member of the Planning Board. The Board considered the following resolution: WHEREAS, Mr. William A. Waddell was born on July 3, 1914, and at the age of fourteen, served as a water boy for his father, a brick mason, who helped build the Lee County Hospital; and WHEREAS, Mr. William A. Waddell on August 18, 1931, began working at the Lee County Hospital as a kitchen helper, which also 3