Commissioners approve Williams Grove Phase 7 sketch plan after yearlong review despite staff concerns

NASH COUNTY, N.C. — The Nash County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 6 voted to approve a revised sketch plan for Williams Grove Subdivision Phase 7, allowing a 24-lot phase that reconfigures roads to avoid a prior proposed crossing of a jurisdictional wetland and riparian buffer. The decision came over recommendations from the Technical Review Committee (TRC) and the Planning Board, which had recommended denial of the current design.

Planning Director Adam Tyson briefed the board that the resubmitted plan replaces an earlier alignment that would have extended Juniper Road across a wetland and riparian buffer. The revised design proposes a connection from Ava Drive to the north, uses a 10-foot buffer strip between the subject property and an adjacent parcel, and includes a 10-foot pavement stub at Lot 12 intended to break up a long block length. The TRC and planning board reviewed earlier iterations and…