Multiple rezoning requests heard and referred to Planning Board for review

The Chatham County Board of Commissioners held a set of legislative public hearings on June 16 and referred four rezoning matters to the Planning Board for review.

Items included: a general-use rezoning request to return a 19.43-acre property on Farrington Point Road from conditional neighborhood business back to R‑1 residential after the owner withdrew plans for an event venue; a request to rezone a roughly 9.27-acre property on Old U.S. 421 South from R‑1 to light industrial, where existing heavy-site buildings and a rail spur were noted in discussion; a conditional-district regional-business rezoning request for approximately 3.91 acres at U.S. 421 and Gulf Road for a self-storage facility (the applicant had provided a site plan and landscape plan reviewed by the Appearance Commission); and a multi-parcel request near Corinth Road in the Moncure area to convert existing conditional use permit boundaries and extend septic service across the road for an existing RV park expansion.

Speakers representing property owners or lessees spoke briefly at some hearings; no members of the public signed up to speak on several items. Commissioners did not vote on the rezonings at the June 16 meeting; each item was scheduled for Planning Board consideration, where staff analysis and neighbor notices will be part of the formal review.

Planning Board schedules and staff analyses will determine when each item returns to commissioners for final action. The board emphasized that zoning approvals would be reviewed in the context of existing land uses, access and utility/service constraints and any NCDOT or public-safety considerations raised in staff reports.