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Lincoln County commissioners approve multiple rezonings, a UDO text amendment and a watershed special‑use permit
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Summary
The board adopted planning board statements and approved several zoning map amendments (including ZMA 755, ZMA 756 and ZMA 757), a plan-development amendment (PD2025-1), UDO Amendment 2025-3 (allowing a single crematory at funeral homes), and WSSUP 28; several related rezonings were tabled to September.
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners on voice and recorded votes approved multiple planning items recommended by the county planning board, adopted statements of consistency and reasonableness for several cases, and tabled others for further review.
Planning staff Jeremiah summarized eight rezoning proposals and one text amendment recommended by the planning board following its Aug. 4 meeting. Among actions taken, the board approved ZMA 755 (BLBJC Properties LLC) to rezone a 6.12-acre parcel to industrial-light; approved PD2025-1 and ZMA 756 (applicant Max Caldwell Jr.) for actions affecting approximately 43.22 acres to remove phase 2 and rezone to residential single-family; and approved ZMA 757 (Stagecoach Investments LLC) to rezone 3.22 acres near West Highway 150 from transitional residential to industrial-general by a recorded 4–1 vote (Commissioner Carpenter cast the lone recorded nay).
The board unanimously adopted a text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO 2025-3) to permit a funeral home to include a single crematory or retort as part of its operation; staff said crematoriums had previously been permitted only in industrial districts. The board also approved a watershed special‑use permit (WSSUP 28) tied to a rezoning for BLBJC Properties LLC that requests a 10.70 nonresidential-intensity allocation in the South Fork Catawba River water-supply watershed.
Several items were tabled for additional staff/applicant follow-up, including ZMA 754 (Troy Lehi, 3.8 acres, tabled until the second meeting in September) and ZMA 760/761/762 connected to the same landowner; commissioners explicitly voted to table those items and asked staff to follow up with applicants.
The board indicated planning-board statements and adopted findings are in the meeting packet for each case. Staff and the board did not record additional conditions beyond the adopted statements during the meeting.
