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Oak Ridge council deadlocks on rezoning request for Horizon Center; staff to draft zoning-text option
Summary
A tied 3-3 vote blocked a request to rezone about 96.5 acres in Horizon Center from IND-2 to IND-3 for BWXT’s proposed centrifuge manufacturing and possible enrichment work; staff will draft a zoning-text amendment to allow targeted uses in IND-2 for future consideration.
Oak Ridge City Council failed to approve a rezoning request for about 96.5 acres in the Horizon Center industrial park after a 3-3 tie, leaving the property in its current IND-2 zoning and prompting staff to prepare a zoning-text amendment as an alternative.
The council considered a petition by BWXT to rezone Development Area 5 (Roane County tax map 021, parcel 002.04) from IND-2 (Industrial 2) to IND-3 (Industrial 3). Ken Givens, a BWXT representative, told council the company intends to manufacture centrifuges at the site and may later pursue activities that would require Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing.
“The request is to…
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