06-01-2000 Regular Meeing and Public Hearing

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• • The reason we bought the storage container is that it is air tight, made of aluminum and is a greater use for storage than having to build a storage house. I was talking with our neighbor across the street, the Johnsons, about the denial of the Zoning Board for us to have the container on our property. She said the people across the street had two containers on his property and had screened them from the road with latticework. I did not know that. Even though we live across the street from him, I did not see the containers because they were screened. We did not know the zoning ordinance prohibited a storage container on a residential property. If we had, we would not have bought it and had it delivered here at great expense. I thought as long as you own your property, you would be allowed to do what you wanted with it, as many others have already done. As an attorney advised me, you could probably be allowed to have anything on your property —the only difference between us and the others is we got caught. I disagree because if we had known it was against the zoning ordinance, we would not. -have bought it and had it placed here. But to remove .it now would entail -much expense and time, because we have already loaded my Mother's things into it. We kept them in storage for a long time, but the conditions of the storage places have greatly deteriorated her precious belongings. So if you will please amend the ordinance; we would greatly appreciate it. I believe the word- shipping- container- has such an ugly connotation with it that you may have ruled solely on the name. When my parents, Snookey.and Elsie Moore, moved here in 1946, we .lived on Sens Road in a converted cow barn. Of course it didn't look like a cow barn when we moved into it, but when it was built there —it was a cow barn. So if someone -asked us where we lived, we would say in a house on Sens Road not in a cow barn. I believe when we have completed our work on the "shipping container", it will be referred to as a storage building, with nothing on the outside to suggest it was once a shipping container. . Thank you for yoiir time and.patience. Carol and W. 0. Childs Jr.