Title
Vote to adopt a resolution approving a legislative rezoning request by Steve Miller on Parcel No. 65761, located at 3756 Corinth Rd., Moncure, Cape Fear Township, for a General Use rezoning from R-5 Residential to R-1 Residential
Abstract
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held on September 21, 2026. Planning staff presented the request and there were no comments from the public. One Planning Board member, Robin Lyons, asked if the parcel could be further subdivided as the R-1 zoning would allow an even smaller lot. Planning staff stated yes.
This parcel is located within the R-5 Residential zoning district. The Zoning Ordinance describes R5 districts as “Primarily for very low density residential developments along the County’s rivers and streams which are compatible with protecting the water quality of the rivers and streams”. This parcel is approximately several thousand feet from the of the Cape Fear River and approximately 985 feet from the nearest floodable area.
Per the Zoning map, the parcels adjacent to the East and North are zoned R-1 Residential and Heavy Industrial. There is a solar farm to the south of this property as shown in the hatched area on the screenshot that is provided later in the notes. The northern property boundary adjoins an active rail line and the property immediately to the north is owned by General Shale and the use is a brick manufacturing plant.
The property owner wishes to subdivide this parcel, being 9.92 acres per tax record but 9.789 per a preliminary survey, into two (2) separate buildable lots in order to give one lot to his son. The lot sizes would be 4.96 acres each which does not meet the 5-acre average requirement for the R5 zoning district.
There are provisions in the Zoning Ordinance, Section 10.1.B, that allow a family subdivision of property on parcels less than 10 acres provided no resultant lot is smaller than three acres. However, when you review the definition of a Family sub...
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