Commissioners approve conditional rezoning for sewing facility at 4216 Boston Road

The Cleveland County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a request to rezone a parcel at 4216 Boston Road from residential to a light-industrial conditional district, allowing development of a sewing facility and related expansion.

Planning Director Chris Barton told the board the applicant, Hackner Home LLC, submitted a required site plan showing three phases: an initial 7,200-square-foot building for manufacturing, offices and storage; a later expansion of that building; and a future retail showroom. Barton said the plan shows compliance with landscaping requirements and access standards for a numbered highway (Highway 18).

“First phase being a 7,200 square foot building, which the sewing facility would occupy, and it would include offices, the facility, the manufacturing part of the business, and then storage,” Barton said, describing the submitted plan.

Barton also said the surrounding area already includes a mix of farms, single-family homes and existing commercial uses along Highway 18, including a former lighting manufacturer and convenience stores, and that the county’s land-use plan designates the area as secondary growth. He told the board the planning board did not establish a quorum at its meeting but that staff is comfortable with the proposal and that the requested light-industrial district is appropriate for low-impact manufacturing such as sewing facilities.

A commissioner moved to approve the rezoning, a second was recorded, and the motion carried unanimously.

The board did not add conditions to the motion during the meeting; Barton noted that, as a conditional rezoning, the board may apply conditions but staff felt the submitted site plan already addressed standard site requirements. The county will proceed with the zoning change and the applicant’s phased development as presented.