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Indian Trail planning board recommends rezoning of Haywood Road parcels to SF-2
Summary
The Indian Trail Planning and Zoning Board unanimously recommended approval of ZM-2025-36, a conventional rezoning of nine parcels (about 5.3 acres) at the dead end of Haywood Road to SF-2 (low-medium density single-family), citing consistency with the town's future land use and to correct a historical zoning anomaly.
The Indian Trail Planning and Zoning Board on an unanimous voice vote recommended approval of ZM-2025-36, a conventional rezoning request to change nine parcels (about 5.3 acres) near the end of Haywood Road from commercial/Regional Business District remnants to SF-2, a low- to medium-density single-family residential district.
Planning staff told the board the subject parcels sit at the dead end of Haywood Road (accessed via Seacrest Shortcut Road) and currently include four occupied homes built between about 1950 and 2005. The staff presentation said the properties were left as a small pocket of RBD after a 2009 zoning map amendment that converted much nearby highway corridor zoning to RBD then later rezoned a large adjacent area to light industrial; the presentation described this request as an effort to correct that historical anomaly.
The staff finding was that SF-2 matches the town's future land use recommendation for medium-density residential and is compatible with the existing pattern of nearby low-density homes. Staff noted SF-2 carries a minimum lot size of 15,000 square feet (about one-third of an acre), roughly 2.9 units per acre, and that the existing residential density supports the SF-2 designation.
Board members asked whether Haywood Road is maintained by the state and whether the parcels have water and sewer. Brandy (town staff) answered, "it is an NCDOT roadway. Haywood Road is." Planning staff said the subject parcels do not have town water or sewer and currently rely on well and septic; the nearest town water and sewer lines were described in the presentation as roughly 2,000 feet away near Laurel Creek and Oakstone subdivisions. Staff and board members stressed that this agenda item was a rezoning only; any future development would return to the town for site- and subdivision-level review and would be required to address road or utility improvements at that time.
A board member moved to recommend approval "of the ZM-2025-36 Meadors/Meador Haywood rezoning as presented, since it does support the land use and housing goals numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and is in line with the comprehensive plan that supports SF-2." The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
The record of the meeting includes staff maps showing the RBD pocket, nearby Laurel Creek and Oakstone subdivisions, Chambers Drive Industrial Park to the west, and the town's future land use map recommending medium-density residential for the parcel cluster. No public comments were recorded for this case.
