Commission recommends zoning change to allow cheese-making

By Diane Saunders
Staff Writer
Published on Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:57 PM MST

The Graham County Planning and Zoning Commission gave a favorable recommendation for a zoning change that will allow Roy Scarborough to make dairy products from goat’s milk.

Scarborough, who said he owns 20 goats, is requesting that 1 acre of his 4.5-acre parcel be changed from residential to commercial-manufacturing. The Graham County Board of Supervisors will consider his request July 20.

“It’s a fairly remote piece (of land),” County Planning and Zoning Director Will Wright said of Scarborough’s property on Swift Trail.

Scarborough said he needs the rezoning so he can make a small amount of goat’s cheese that he will sell off-site.

Several commissioners questioned the need to rezone the property if a special use permit would suffice. In the end, the commissioners decided to give the favorable recommendation for rezoning.

In unrelated matters, the commission voted to give favorable recommendations to two separate rezoning requests. The County Board of Supervisors will consider these requests July 20.

In the first, Max Philips asked that his property be rezoned from general use to single-family residential for the purpose of splitting the nearly 1-acre lot on West Eighth Avenue in Thatcher.

Phillips said he wants to build a second single-family home on the property.

In the second request, Steven Lot Smith requested a zoning change from general use to residential to bring his property in Central into compliance with the county’s planning and zoning ordinance.

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Goat cheese wrote on Jun 23, 2009 1:01 AM:

" I can just hear the new neighbors that will move in on top of Roy, start to complain about the smell of the cheese. These cry bab ies will have forgotten that he was there first and they moved in on him. But that is just how some old and more of the new residents of Graham County are these days. "

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