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Moore County Planning Board recommends approval of conditional rezoning for self-storage site; forwards to commissioners
Summary
The Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a conditional rezoning to allow a 116-unit mini-warehouse/self-storage facility on a roughly 2.382-acre parcel on Lehman Road, and adopted a land-use-plan consistency statement; the item will go to the Moore County Board of Commissioners for a public hearing in January. The transcript shows inconsistent property addresses (21280 vs. 1280 Lehman Road).
The Moore County Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a conditional rezoning that would allow a 116-unit mini-warehouse self-storage facility on an approximately 2.382-acre parcel on Lehman Road and adopted a land-use-plan consistency statement at its final meeting of 2024.
Planning staff presented the request as a rezoning from Rural Agricultural (RA) to Neighborhood Business conditional zoning (B1CZ). Ruth Peterson, identified in the transcript as planning staff, described the site as wooded with no installed driveway, accessed by a recorded easement, and near NC Highway 705 and the town of Robbins’ extraterritorial jurisdiction. Peterson said the site plan shows a 20-foot Type 3 buffer to mitigate impacts on adjacent residences and asked the board to state whether the rezoning is consistent with the Moore County future land use map and whether it is reasonable and in the public interest.
Why it mattered: the board frames such decisions as advisory — the Planning Board makes recommendations to the Moore County Board of Commissioners,…
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