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Commissioners Hear Two Rezoning Requests; Seacrest Proposal Draws Municipal Concern
Summary
The board held public hearings on two rezoning petitions: CZ-2024-005 (Seacrest), a request to rezone about 12 acres to allow a driving school and weekend flea market, and RZ-2025-010 (Haney), a small highway-corridor rezoning for about a half-acre parcel; staff recommended approval for Seacrest and denial for Haney based on parcel size and utilities.
The Union County Board of Commissioners held two rezoning public hearings during the meeting.
Seacrest (CZ-2024-005): Senior planner Bjorn Hansen described a request to rezone approximately 12 acres from R-20 (two units per acre residential) to B-4 to allow two principal uses: a driving school for personal vehicles and a limited indoor/outdoor weekend flea market. Staff recommended approval, noting the applicant’s site plan, a proposed restriping of Seacrest Shortcut to add a turn lane and a five-year vesting period, stormwater measures to meet the county’s 2-, 10- and 50-year standards, and a proposed pond/attenuation area. Hansen said the land use board had recommended denial and that nearby municipalities had sent objections citing traffic and land-use concerns.
The applicant, Carmi Milton, and the project engineer said they had revised the plan to address neighbors’ concerns: the market would operate primarily on weekends, the driveway was moved farther from adjacent homes, proposed parking was 62 spaces (compared with a by-right potential of 90), and the team proposed to increase floodplain storage and provide sidewalks, a half-acre of right-of-way dedication and 11 street trees. Commissioners sought clarification about the extent of floodplain on the site, the design of the stormwater pond and how much excavation in the floodplain was planned. The applicant and engineer said details remained to be finalized if the plan were approved.
Haney (RZ-2025-010): Hansen described a straight rezoning request south of Monroe along US-601 to change RA-40 to Highway Corridor for a parcel the staff said was reduced to roughly a half-acre after previous DOT right-of-way takings. Because utilities are not available and the parcel is small, staff recommended denial, while the land use board recommended approval. Owner Mike Haney said rezoning would make the parcel usable (for example, for a small self-storage use) because as currently configured it is effectively unusable.
No final rezoning votes were recorded in the public portion of the meeting. The board closed both public hearings and did not take immediate final action on either petition within this meeting’s recorded agenda items.
