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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1993 not related to the proposal to add Paragraph J. to Section VI of the Ordinance, the more relevant public comments related specifically to this section. The proposal to add Paragraph J. to Section VI would provide that a nonconforming use of land involving the transportation or temporary storage of hazardous waste may be terminated after an amortization period of not more than two years as determined by the City Council, provided the City Council, after referring the matter to the Planning Commission and receipt of their recommendation, has determined that the use poses a clear and present threat to the health and safety of surrounding residential homeowners living immediately adjacent to such nonconforming use. The nonconforming use of concern to those in attendance involved the use of the old R. P. Thomas trucking terminal on Fayette Street by Environmental Transportation Services (ETS) as a way station in the transportation of hazardous waste. Comments regarding this proposed amendment were as follows: (1) in response to questions from Vice-Mayor Adams, City Attorney David B. Worthy said he interpreted the language in the amendment of "immediately adjacent" to mean contiguous or touching (in other words, sharing a common boundary); Mr. Worthy also noted the language "surrounding residential homeowners" to be restrictive terminology; (2) several persons questioned the procedure by which the Ordinance would be adopted, to which Vice-Mayor Adams explained it would need to be considered at two Council meetings in order to be adopted (on a non- emergency basis); (3) Lafayette Jones, 501 Second Street, questioned the City Attorney on the definition of "immediately adjacent" and also asked when the "two years" begins, to which the City Attorney replied the amortization period would begin from the date on which Council