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Council approves small buffer reduction at Tyler’s Ridge with expanded plantings to preserve key pines
Summary
Council approved a special-use permit to reduce a 30-foot landscape buffer and 50-foot building setback on a commercial parcel called the 'pizza slice' at Tyler's Ridge after staff and applicant negotiated a compromise that preserves several mature trees, removes invasive understory, and requires new perimeter plantings.
The Southern Pines Town Council approved a special-use permit Aug. 12 to modify buffer and setback requirements on Lot 9 of the Tyler's Ridge development — the triangular, commercially developed parcel staff calls the “pizza slice.” Planning staff and the applicant presented a compromise that reduces the former 30-foot required undisturbed buffer in a narrow band in order to preserve two mature…
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