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Planning board recommends partial approval of county land rezoning in Hampstead amid neighbor opposition
Summary
The Pender County Planning Board recommended rezoning only the northern portion of a county-owned 27.5-acre tract near Highway 17 to General Business, denying the remainder after public concerns about traffic, wetlands and private-road impacts.
The Pender County Planning Board voted to recommend rezoning a portion of county-owned property in Topsail Township while denying a rezoning request for the remainder of the tract after extensive public comment.
Staff presented rezoning case RZ-2025-87: two (functionally three) parcels totaling about 27.5 acres requested to be changed from Residential Performance (RP) to General Business (GB). Staff argued the area near U.S. Highway 17 already has a commercial pattern and that rezoning would allow services residents currently travel to Wilmington or Jacksonville to obtain locally.…
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