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Commissioners approve rezoning for Dollar General site on Copeland School Road in Dobson
Summary
The board approved rezoning case ZCR 12 65 to allow a Dollar General-style general merchandise store at 777 Copeland School Road with conditions including a 42-inch brick base and hardy board siding where visible from the road and double setbacks adjoining residences.
The Surry County Board of Commissioners voted June 16 to rezone 2.76 acres at 777 Copeland School Road in Dobson from Rural Agricultural (RA) to Community Business Conditional to allow a general merchandise store (Dollar General-style) under ZCR 12 65.
Adrian Gardner, the county's development services director, summarized staff and planning-board review and said the application met the special requirements in section 154.008 for development that abuts residential zoning, including doubled side and rear setbacks, required buffering and outdoor-lighting controls shown on the proposed site plan. Gardner told the board the Surry County Land Use Plan 2040 classifies the parcel as a rural area but that surrounding parcels contain commercial zoning and that the planning board recommended approval.
Deputy County Attorney Howard Jones recited the conditional elements agreed with the petitioner. Jones said the petitioner had offered conditions to make the building more compatible with the rural area; the conditions recorded in the packet include that approximately 42 inches of the building base visible from the road be brick and that three sides visible from NC 268 and Copeland School Road be finished with hardy board.
Applicant Gordon Kristoff of Terramor Development LLC said the proposed store would bring "7 to 9 new full and part time jobs to the community." He and his team said the project would increase the property's tax base to about $2,100,000 and bring an estimated $1,500,000 in taxable sales annually. Kristoff confirmed the site will have only a Copeland School Road access; there will be no entrance from NC 268.
After a public hearing with one resident asking about product offerings, the board voted to approve the conditional rezoning. The motion to approve ZCR 12 65 was made and seconded on the record and the chairman called the vote; the motion carried.
The rezoning was approved with the conditions read into the record, and the signed conditional-rezoning agreement will be recorded with the rezoning ordinance in the county's land-records process.
