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Vote to approve an ordinance and adopt a resolution approving the consistency statement for a rezoning and a conversion of an existing Conditional Use Permit by Kent Dickens dba Dickens RV Park, from R-1 with CUP, R-1, and Ind H to Conditional District Neighborhood Business (CD-NB) on portions of Parcels 5176, 5177, 5636 (9.73 ac), a portion of 5143 (2.009 ac) and conversion of Parcel 5749 (35.121 ac) of existing campground. Parcels are located at 0 Corinth Rd and 2501 Corinth Rd., Cape Fear Township
Abstract
Introduction & Background: A legislative public hearing was held June 16, 2025. Planning staff presented the request. No one signed up to speak and the applicant was available for questions.
Dicken's RV Campground was originally approved as a Conditional Use Permit within an R-1 zoning district in August 2002 for 21 spaces. In August 2005, an application was approved for an additional 84 spaces. In October 2011, 98 additional spaces and a spray water park were approved by the Board of Commissioners, increasing the total number of approved RV spaces to 205. The campground has continued to operate as permitted. However, to construct the additional spaces, additional sewer capacity is needed.
The additional septic area is located on property outside of the approved special use permit boundary on the opposite side of Corinth Road and is zoned Industrial Heavy (IH). RV parks are not permitted in the IH zoning district, so a rezoning is needed for the applicant to use the property to serve the park. The build-out of the park also now requires additional stormwater management, which as shown on the site plan will be in the northwest corner of the park. This will require that portion of the property, currently zoned R-1 Residential, to be subdivided from its parent and added to the park.
In order to conform to the current zoning regulations and for ease of permitting and file management, all portions of the RV park are proposed to be under the same zoning...
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