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Vote on a request by Moncure Holdings, LLC to rezone Parcels 65277, 66669, 5369 and 5623 and portions of Parcels 5620 and 65276 from R-1 Residential and Conditional Use Heavy Industrial to IH Heavy Industrial General Use being a total of 686.45 acres, located off the Moncure Flatwoods Road and Christian Chapel Church Road, Cape Fear Township.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote on a request by Moncure Holdings, LLC to rezone Parcels 65277, 66669, 5369 and 5623 and portions of Parcels 5620 and 65276 from R-1 Residential and Conditional Use Heavy Industrial to IH Heavy Industrial General Use being a total of 686.45 acres, located off the Moncure Flatwoods Road and Christian Chapel Church Road, Cape Fear Township.
Planning Board discussion is noted below.
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held on April 16, 2018. Planning staff and Beth Trahos, attorney for the applicant, presented the request. Also speaking was Kyle Touchstone, Economic Development Center of Chatham County.
An adjacent landowner, Don Brown, expressed concern about the types of industry may be located on the property and how landowners would be notified. He currently has a tree farm on his property and is concerned about the future land uses and location of a proposed rail line indicated on promotional materials.
In 2017 the Board of Commissioners approved an amendment to Section 10.13 Table of Permitted Uses of the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance. In that amendment several industrial properties were changed from being permitted by right to a conditional use permit (CUP). The CUPs are required to go through a quasi-judicial process in order to be approved as an allowable use for the properties. Adjacent and adjoining landowners are notified in these specific cases and would have an opportunity to review the application submittal and provide comments to the Board of Commissioners.
Discussion & Analysis:
The parcels are currently zoned R1, Residential and CU-IND-H, Con...
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