Planning board recommends rezoning Johnson Pond landmark for residential addiction treatment center

The Fuquay Varina Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a rezoning that would allow New Waters Recovery to operate a voluntary, adult-only residential substance-use treatment facility at 6321 Johnson Pond Road, a town-designated landmark property.

The recommendation, approved by voice vote, moves the 13.9-acre parcel from Residential Agricultural to an Office and Institutional conditional zoning district and includes a corresponding land-use plan amendment. The board added a condition that commitments to treatment at the site be voluntary and that residents be adults only.

Melissa Sigman, Assistant Planning Director, introduced the item and entered supporting documents into the record, including the rezoning application and the land-use amendment request. Attorney John Adcock, representing the petitioner, told the board that "My clients will operate a, a residential treatment facility for individuals, adults, adults who are suffering from substance abuse disorders." Adcock said the proposal preserves the historic J. Beale Johnson House and that the Wake County Historic Preservation Commission issued a certificate of appropriateness (COA) for exterior changes approximately a month earlier.

Adcock and applicant representatives…