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Public hearing held on request to rezone 14.64 acres on Deep River Road from residential-agricultural to light industrial
Summary
Wake Stone Property Company asked the Lee County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 16 to rezone 14.64 acres on Deep River Road from residential-agricultural to light industrial to allow a flex-industrial building; staff said the county's comprehensive plan designates the parcel as "countryside" and that the board must decide whether industrial uses are appropriate.
Wake Stone Property Company asked the Lee County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 16 to rezone 14.64 acres along Deep River Road from residential-agricultural (RA) to light industrial.
The request covers five adjoining tracts in the Deep River community, opposite Wake Stone Corporation's Moncure Quarry, and seeks a general-use rezoning to allow development of a speculative light-industrial or flex-industrial building. Because the application is for general-use (not conditional) rezoning, no site plan or building plan was filed with the rezoning petition.
Why it matters: A change from RA to light industrial would broaden the range of uses allowed on the property, potentially allowing manufacturing, warehousing, motor-vehicle repair and similar activities that the county's Unified Development Ordinance permits in the light-industrial district. Staff noted the parcel…
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