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Vote on a request by Elkins Sawmill, Inc. to rezone a portion of property, consisting of approximately 57.41 acres, located off of King Road, Parcel No. 5595, from R1, Residential to IH, Heavy Industrial.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote on a request by Elkins Sawmill, Inc. to rezone a portion of property, consisting of approximately 57.41 acres, located off of King Road, Parcel No. 5595, from R1, Residential to IH, Heavy Industrial.
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held September 1, 2017. Planning staff opened the request for review. The applicant's attorney, Hayes Finley, presented the standards and reason for rezoning request.
Discussion & Analysis:
With a general use rezoning request, the Planning Board and Commissioners must consider all uses that are allowed by right or with a conditional use permit within the Heavy Industrial district. Section 19 of the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance outlines four standards that must be addressed for this type of zoning map amendment.
The property is approximately 71.775 acres with 57.41 zoned R1, Residential, and the balance zoned IH, Heavy Industrial (see attachment 1). The adjoining properties are zoned are zoned R1 and IH. The uses on this and the adjoining properties is primarily timber management and open fields with some properties containing Harris Lake, which is used as part of a nuclear power facility located within Wake County. The watershed designation for the property is Local on the north side of King Road and WS-IV Protected Area to the south. Neither watershed designation poses any issues with the IH zoning designation. There also no special flood hazard areas on the property under the currently approved floodmaps or the new floodmaps scheduled for adoption in November 2017.
1. In response to any alleged error in the Ordinance, if any, which may be remedied by this proposed amendment, the applicant is not making a claim of an error in the ordinance.
The applicant is...
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