Board declines to set numeric vehicle limit; suggests ordinance amendment
Summary
Appellant asked the board to define a numeric threshold for when vehicles constitute a storage yard; the board declined, saying such a change would require a text amendment and is outside the scope of the appeal, and closed the hearing.
Appellant counsel asked the board to provide a clear numeric standard so his client could bring the Milliken Road properties into compliance. Counsel argued the ordinance contains provisions (for example, in automobile-graveyard/junkyard definitions) that reference a six-vehicle threshold for inoperable vehicles, and asked whether storage should be read to encompass a similar numeric limit.
County counsel and staff replied that the ordinance does not set a numeric limit for general "storage" of operable vehicles and that the board's role in the appeal is to affirm, reverse or modify the zoning administrator's determinations based on the record. Staff suggested that broad numeric clarifications would be achieved through a text amendment rather than an appeal adjudication. The board voted not to consider further interpretation in this case and formally closed the hearing; members recommended that any party seeking numeric standards pursue ordinance text amendment processes.
The board also took housekeeping votes to accept evidentiary exhibits into the record, to formally close the hearing and to adjourn the meeting.
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