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Planning director outlines rezoning request and zoning code text changes to ease housing development
Summary
A property owner requested rezoning of a 4.5‑acre frontage from Residential‑3 to Rural Mixed Use; planning staff also proposed zoning text amendments to lot size tables, site‑plan standards and site/building development standards to encourage infill and reduce regulatory duplication.
Burke County planning staff presented two related zoning items: a map amendment request by property owners Brian and Robin Smith to rezone about 4.5 acres of frontage on U.S. 64 from Residential‑3 to Rural Mixed Use, and a text amendment aimed at simplifying the county’s zoning code and easing housing production.
Alan Glines, the county planning director, said the Smith parcel is a portion of a roughly 23‑acre tract and that the front 4.5 acres is adjacent to mixed commercial uses along the highway. Glines said the Smiths have used an existing outbuilding to support their…
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