The Planning Board recommended approval of petition R25-05, a conditional rezoning by Sky Partners LLC to allow an industrial flex warehouse and associated office (about 73,000 square feet) on roughly 8.6 acres previously zoned Corporate Business.

Staff explained the parcel contains an intermittent stream that conflicted with the proposed building footprint. To proceed the applicant applied to the Mecklenburg County stream restoration program for mitigation credits; county staff accepted that application and the developer agreed to plant a level‑2 replanting within the on‑site buffer. Planning staff said the project mirrors a recently approved Commerce Station application that used county mitigation credits and that the developer has added a note to the site plan committing to apply mitigation credits to a project within Huntersville if Mecklenburg County allows it.

Staff recommended approval of the conditional rezoning with standard buffer replanting, a front-buffer disturbance modification (with replanting), and the county mitigation application in place. Board members expressed general support: they said the property is in an employment center and surrounded by similar corporate/industrial uses, and that the mitigation approach, if implemented correctly, would improve local water quality relative to the existing conditions.

The board approved the rezoning with staff conditions; members noted the project will require coordination with Mecklenburg County on where the mitigation credits can be applied and that staff will continue coordinating that work.