Surry County commissioners approve site-plan amendment for 89 Speed Shop on West Pine Street

The Surry County Board of Commissioners on March 17 approved a site-plan amendment allowing a second commercial structure at 2355 West Pine Street, the property of 89 Speed Shop.

Development Services Director Adrian Gardner told the board the parcel had been rezoned to Rural Business (RB) conditional in 2010 and that the owner seeks only an additional commercial structure; the uses approved in 2010 would remain unchanged. Gardner said staff and the planning board recommended approval, concluding the parcel sits within an area of mixed commercial, residential, and agricultural uses and that the additional building would have minimal impact on the area.

At the hearing, Kirby Cook of 89 Speed Shop said the contractor had pulled a building permit without triggering an amended site plan in the county’s permitting workflow and that the application before the board was the applicant’s effort to “go back through the steps to amend that site plan” and correct the oversight. Cook described the vehicles visible on site as customer vehicles in restoration or dealer inventory and said truly junked vehicles were removed to a scrap yard.

Commissioner Van Tucker moved to approve the zoning request and the amendment as consistent with the Surry County Land Use Plan 2040 and in the public interest; the motion was seconded and approved by the board.

The approval allows the second commercial structure to be built with the same conditional uses established in 2010; no change to the list of allowed uses was made as part of this amendment.

The board closed the public hearing after taking the vote and thanked the applicant for addressing the permitting issue with county staff.