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Hoffner withdraws rezoning application; Madison County schedules several upcoming planning workshops
Summary
An applicant withdrew after neighbor pushback, staff reported; county staff outlined several upcoming workshops including rezoning requests, campground reviews, an antique shop opening, and a possible four‑lot subdivision.
Madison County planning staff reported that an applicant withdrew a rezoning after neighbors expressed opposition, and county planners listed multiple upcoming workshops and tentative cases.
Jonathan Nichols, zoning department staff, said Mrs. Hoffner withdrew her application after “she’d had some pushback from her neighbors” and, Nichols said, “not all neighbors felt that way bullied by some of the neighbors to such an extent that she withdrew her application.” Nichols said she contacted staff after the second workshop and chose to withdraw.
Staff also previewed upcoming workshops and tentative items. Items mentioned included a second workshop for Josh Heggie of Blue Ridge Ag to discuss by-right uses on a portion of his property along South Seminole Trail; a second workshop for a project by Al Esch on South Seminole Trail; a review of the personal campground definition (and a small campground called 2 Rivers off Clore Road); a rezoning request near Kinderhook by a property owner named Jonathan Nichols (no relation); a proposed antique shop, Black Cat Antiques, in a former museum on Wolf Town Hood Road; an AC Limited Partnership parcel on South Seminole Trail seeking A-1 zoning; and a possible four-lot subdivision off Beamtown Road.
A brief public comment raised a separate, site-specific permitting matter. A resident identified as Whitewood asked about hauling dirt onto a site; staff replied that an on-site visit with the county’s environmental/erosion control administrator, Joe Sexton, observed that a silt fence was installed and permits were in place.
Staff said the schedule is tentative and that the most recent draft of the county’s comprehensive plan will be circulated to commissioners and the board once final editorial corrections are applied.
