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Public Hearing on a request to Rezone the Lloyd Farm property at 700 Old Fayetteville Road to B-4-CZ
PURPOSE: The Town has received an application to rezone property at NC Hwy 54 and 700 Old Fayetteville Road to B-4-conditional rezoning (B-4-CZ) for the construction of a mixed-use development to include a grocery store, commercial outparcels and a multi-story apartment building. The Board of Aldermen must receive public input before reaching a decision on this request.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325; Marty Roupe - 919-918-7333, Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327, Nick Herman - 919-929-3905
INFORMATION: On September 16, 2014 the Board received a request to set a public hearing on a proposed conditional use rezoning/conditional use permit application for the Lloyd Farm, a mixed use development at 700 Old Fayetteville Road. The Board did not set the public hearing but instead directed staff to explore options with the Dispute Settlement Center for developing a facilitated process by which the applicant, Argus Development, LLC, the Town and representatives from the adjacent neighborhood could better address neighbor concerns about the project. A mediation process followed and included a series of meetings during the summer and early fall of 2015. At the outset, the stakeholders agreed to a shared objective that at the end of mediation process the applicants would have a revised site plan and would be ready to resume the public hearing process. There was no formal endorsement of the site plan from any of the stakeholders, but rather an understanding that the project could begin again as a request for conditional zoning.
Change to the Process. In February 2016, the applicants submitted a new application for the process using the conditional zoning mechanism rather than the conditional use zoning mechanism. The change affects the process. With conditional use zoning the applicant sub...
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