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Council denies rezoning request for 3.28-acre Pritchardville lot after neighbors cite wetlands, neighborhood impacts
Summary
Beaufort County Council voted to deny a rezoning request to permit animal production on a 3.28-acre parcel in the Pritchardville area after staff, the planning commission and the Natural Resources Committee recommended denial and neighbors raised concerns about wetlands and impacts to the May River watershed.
Beaufort County Council denied a request to rezone a 3.28-acre parcel in Pritchardville that the owners sought to reclassify to permit animal production.
County staff said the parcel is currently zoned T3 Edge, a primarily residential district that allows crop raising but not animal production, and that enforcement action followed when animals were being raised there. The owners applied to rezone to May River CP, a district that allows animal raising, and sought the change to correct the zoning violation, planning staff said. The planning commission and the Natural Resources Committee both recommended denial before the item came to full council.
At the council meeting,…
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