Planning Commission recommends approval of rezoning at 5828 Fayetteville Road

The Garner Planning Commission on April 14 voted 6-0 to recommend approval of CZ24007, a tier 1 conditional district rezoning for 5828 Fayetteville Road that would change about 0.6 acre from Rural Agricultural to Light Industrial Conditional. The commission’s vote forwards the staff-drafted consistency statement and the rezoning recommendation to Garner Town Council for a final decision.

Planning staff (name not specified) told the commission the applicant is Flores Capital LLC; the property owner is Adelfo Flores. Staff described the request as a tier 1 conditional district rezoning for a small infill site on U.S. Highway 401 South near Fayetteville Road and said the applicant limited the permitted uses in the conditions to two categories (listed in the application packet). Staff said the parcel falls inside the Commercial Highway Overlay (CHO) and within the Swift Creek land management plan, which imposes impervious-surface limits.

The conditions proffered by the applicant and read into the record include: limiting impervious surface to 12 percent of the site (the applicant declined to use on-site stormwater…