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Commission denies annexation and NC-15 zoning request for three Barkley Drive parcels
Summary
The planning commission voted to deny an annexation request and NC-15 zoning for three parcels at 924–932 Barkley Drive after staff and residents raised concerns about lot width, service efficiency and neighborhood continuity.
The Florence City Planning Commission voted to deny an applicant’s request to annex three parcels at 924, 928 and 932 Barkley Drive and to zone them NC-15 pending annexation.
Miss Lane, planning staff, said the three parcels lie at the back of Vintage Place, a county subdivision now contiguous with the Magnolia Farms subdivision in the city. She told commissioners the parcels do not meet the NC-15 requirement of 100 feet of width at the building line and that the future land-use map designates the area as neighborhood conservation.
Jeremy McKee, president of the Vintage Place Homeowners Association, spoke against the annexation. He said the HOA wants the subdivision to remain county property and warned mixing city and county jurisdiction in the same subdivision could cause confusion for sanitation, fire and law enforcement. Staff also noted earlier a 2016 community effort to annex Vintage Place had failed after proponents did not reach the 75% petition threshold.
Commissioner Moses moved to deny the annexation and zoning request; the motion was seconded and passed. Commissioners cited the lot-dimension conflict with NC-15 standards and concerns about municipal service efficiency as reasons for denial. The item will not advance to City Council from the planning commission.
