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Clayton planning board backs conditional rezoning for two Front Street duplexes
Summary
The Clayton Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of a conditional rezoning to allow two duplexes on two small Front Street lots, approving conditions for rear parking, sidewalk improvements and compliance with residential design guidelines.
The Clayton Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a conditional rezoning for two Front Street lots to allow construction of one duplex on each lot.
Town staff opened the public meeting for the “Front Street duplexes” conditional rezoning, describing two vacant lots of roughly 0.14 and 0.21 acres at the Church Street/East Front Street intersection that the applicant proposes to redevelop as two duplexes with parking accessed from a shared 15‑foot driveway at the rear. Staff said the applicant signed voluntary compliance with the town’s residential design guidelines and attached conditions addressing construction materials, a 30‑foot access easement and sidewalk improvements along North Church Street. Staff recommended approval.
Applicant Garren Bostick told the board he intends to live in one of the units and designed the buildings to read like single‑family houses from the street. “This is gonna be a personal house of mine and I plan to live here,” Bostick said, describing a front‑facing entry for one unit with a second entrance at the side that a short sidewalk would serve.
Board members raised procedural and design questions. One member flagged a technicality with the neighborhood meeting schedule (held on a weekend rather than the weekday window in the UDO); staff said the applicant agreed to hold a follow‑up neighborhood meeting before the rezoning goes to council. Members also pressed staff and the applicant on parking configuration, shared‑driveway turning radii and whether the design preserves a walkable, downtown frontage. Staff noted UDO requirements that the primary façade contain at least one dwelling entrance and said the TRC and engineering review had accepted the shared driveway as an appropriate design for the proposed rear parking.
After discussion tying the request to goals and policies in the town’s comprehensive growth plan, Board member Applewhite moved to recommend approval and Board member Saraski seconded. The board voted in favor with no recorded opposition.
Next steps: the board’s recommendation and the record of the neighborhood‑meeting corrective action will be forwarded to town council for final consideration.
