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Council approves Red Oak Road rezoning for UNC Health clinic
Summary
The Town of Nashville approved rezoning of a 7.3-acre parcel along Red Oak Road from agricultural to Business-1 to allow a UNC Health medical facility after planning board recommendation and a developer traffic study.
The Town of Nashville Council on Feb. 4, 2025 approved rezoning a 7.3-acre parcel along Red Oak Road from A-1 agricultural to B-1 business to allow development of a medical facility proposed by UNC Health.
Planning staff said the parcel sits in the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction and is shown on the town's future land use map as highway services. The planning board recommended approval on Jan. 28, 2025; the council voted in favor of the rezoning ordinance (Ordinance 2025-O4) after a brief presentation and no public comments during the council hearing.
Laura Holloman of McAdams, the project planner for the applicant, said the concept shows a roughly 20,000-square-foot building placed close to the road with a substantial rear buffer for environmental features. Holloman said the project team completed a traffic study in October 2024 that recommended a northbound left-turn lane with storage and an eastbound right-turn lane with storage at the site driveway; she said the study otherwise found no further traffic mitigation necessary for the proposed scale.
Holloman also noted the site is not currently served by town water and sewer; the developer plans private well and an on-site septic system and will coordinate with Nash County Environmental Health to confirm soil suitability. The applicant indicated it hopes to open the facility by summer 2025 and has providers ready to staff the clinic.
The council approved the rezoning ordinance by voice vote. The developer must next submit engineered site plans for technical review by the town's TRC (Technical Review Committee) and complete required utility and driveway permits before construction.
