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Greene County planning panel recommends special-use permit for Ford Avenue auto shop with conditions
Summary
After a heated public hearing, the Greene County Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of SUP-25-003 (a five-bay auto repair shop with limited vehicle sales at 1183 Ford Avenue) to the Board of Supervisors, attaching conditions including vehicle limits, screening, hours, paving and lighting.
The Greene County Planning Commission voted on Aug. 20 to recommend approval of a special-use permit for a home-based auto repair shop and limited vehicle sales at 1183 Ford Avenue, sending the matter to the Board of Supervisors with a set of mitigating conditions.
The commission’s recommendation covers SUP-25-003, for a property identified in the record as TMP 27-A-70A and zoned R-1 residential. County staff told the commission that the SUP process is intended to assess impacts such as noise, traffic and buffering rather than personalities, and that a special-use permit ‘‘runs with the property, not with the owner,’’ meaning conditions would bind future owners as well as the applicant.
The hearing produced sharply divided public comment. Neighbors from Little Mountain Estates and adjacent properties said the five-bay garage and proposed resale lot are out of character for an R-1 neighborhood and pointed to a prior Board of…
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