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Council rezones US‑70 service-road parcel to industrial light in clean‑up rezoning
Summary
The council approved a rezoning to make a 10.25-acre property wholly industrial light, aligning zoning across a site previously used as a laydown and parking yard during construction of nearby I‑885.
Durham City Council voted to rezone a portion of a parcel on the U.S. 70 Service Road to industrial light, bringing the small northeast corner of the property into alignment with the rest of the site’s zoning.
Planner Peyton Burgess said the request was a general rezoning to make the full 10.25‑acre parcel industrial light. Applicant Katie Hamilton of Gander Development told council the property had been used as a laydown yard and parking during construction of I‑885 and that making the site uniformly industrial light would avoid split‑zoning complications during stormwater permitting and property development.
Hamilton said Gander Development is working with an industrial-building specialist (Tectonic and Hamilton Property Group) and expects typical light‑industrial or warehouse and assembly uses; applicant partners estimated an operator might employ roughly 90 people. The proposed access for future uses would be from the U.S. 70 Service Road rather than State Road 98.
One nearby resident, Stanley Ballard, attended the meeting and raised concerns about traffic on the corridor and asked what type of tenant the site might attract. Hamilton said the site is expected to be accessed from U.S. 70 Service Road and that some traffic could flow to I‑885; staff and the applicant said pre-application consultation described the rezoning as a cleanup that is consistent with long-range planning and the place-type map.
Planning commission unanimously recommended approval; the council adopted the rezoning ordinance and the required consistency statement by unanimous vote at the meeting.
