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Council approves first reading to rezone Wilson Business Parkway site for Onyabeni North America with deed restrictions
Summary
York County Council on Feb. 3 approved first reading to rezone a 16.77-acre parcel on Wilson Business Parkway from Light Industrial to Industrial Development to allow Onyabeni North America to build a machinery-manufacturing facility, subject to deed restrictions volunteered by the petitioner.
York County Council on Feb. 3 approved first reading to rezone a 16.77-acre parcel on Wilson Business Parkway from Light Industrial (LI) to Industrial Development (ID) to allow a machinery-manufacturing facility for Onyabeni North America, with deed restrictions the petitioner volunteered to limit more intensive industrial uses.
The move is intended to allow the U.S. subsidiary of Onyabeni to relocate a tool-and-die and hydraulic-piston assembly operation from Charlotte to a new roughly 45,000-square-foot building at the end of Wilson Business Parkway. Attorney John Floyd, representing the petitioner, told council the company expects an initial 20 employees and hopes to grow to about 60 across three shifts; he said the work is largely assembly and not a chemical or refining operation.
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