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Rezoning request for former gas station site on NC 87 set for public hearing next week
Summary
Planning staff recommended rezoning a 3.05‑acre parcel on NC 87 North (formerly a gas station/convenience store) from RA‑20R to Commercial; staff cited highway corridor overlay standards, public water/sewer availability and planning board 5‑0 approval; the board scheduled a public hearing next week.
Development services staff presented a rezoning request (PLN250200002) from Barnwell Capital LLC for approximately 3.05 acres on NC 87 North in the Barbecue Township near the Olivia Road intersection. The site is a vacant corner lot that formerly operated as a gas station and convenience store; part of the parcel is wooded.
Staff advised the requested commercial zoning is compatible with surrounding commercially zoned uses — including a convenience store, a licensed massage establishment (staff used that phrase in the staff narrative), a single‑family residence and vacant land — and noted the parcel is within the county’s highway corridor overlay district, which includes enhanced standards to promote safety and manage nonresidential development along the corridor. Infrastructure is available: public water and sewer abut the parcel and the site features access to NC 87 North, which staff said carries an average of about 26,500 daily trips.
Staff recommended approval of the rezoning based on compatibility with the comprehensive land‑use plan and cited the planning board’s unanimous 5‑0 approval at its hearing; staff reported no speakers in opposition. Commissioners asked clarifying questions about the parcel’s prior uses and zoning — staff said the site formerly hosted Olivia Gas and Convenience and may have also contained a restaurant — and agreed to defer the item for a public hearing the following week.
Ending: The board set the rezoning application for public hearing next week; staff will publish required notices and present the application and any public comments at that hearing.
