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Mount Airy council adopts narrower rezoning, keeps focus on Main Street protections
Summary
After extended debate about Main Street's character and potential for incremental upzoning, the Mount Airy Town Council narrowed Ordinance 2025-16 to rezone only Parcel 1429 from "residential existing" to Neighborhood Professional and approved the amendment.
The Mount Airy Town Council debated long-running rezoning proposals for four South Main Street parcels under Ordinance 2025-16 and ultimately approved an amended measure that applies only to Parcel 1429.
Council members spent more than an hour discussing whether converting residential properties adjacent to Main Street to a Neighborhood Professional (NP) zone would erode the historic Main Street character and create momentum for further upzoning. Council member Steven Demoter and others argued NP is a commercial zoning classification that…
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