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Southern Pines council approves conditional zoning to expand Red’s Corner food‑truck campus with engineer certification and parking conditions
Summary
The council approved a conditional rezoning to expand Red’s Corner onto 155 Hall Avenue, adding an expanded commissary, stage and patio but requiring an engineer’s letter on stormwater within 60 days and measures to prevent informal overflow parking and preserve fire access.
The Southern Pines Town Council approved a conditional zoning application Tuesday to expand Red’s Corner, a food‑truck campus at 901 Southwest Broad, onto an adjacent parcel at 155 Hall Avenue, allowing a commissary, stage, additional seating and landscaping while adding conditions to address stormwater, safety and parking.
Senior planner Elena Millette told the council staff and the applicant had negotiated 18 applicant‑proposed conditions and recommended approval with two staff changes that clarified when a special event permit would be required and how to account for added impervious surface. The council amended the package to require a certified engineer’s letter addressing stormwater within 60 days of approval and approved the rezoning by voice vote.
“[The applicant is] proposing putting a vegetative hedge, and then resodding the area behind that to be open space,” applicant Scott Bertrand said while describing plans to prevent the informal overflow parking that has developed behind the food trucks.
Council members pressed the applicant and staff on fire access and turnaround space. Millette and the applicant said the design includes an access easement allowing emergency apparatus to use the primary parking lot at 901 Southwest Broad rather than the informal rear parking area, and that the applicant has committed in writing to manage and clear that access.
On stormwater, the council required that the site either demonstrate 70% or less impervious surface, or employ permeable pavement or other measures approved by the town engineer to reduce the calculated impervious area to the ordinance maximum. The council added condition language requiring a certified engineer’s letter within 60 days to verify stormwater controls and clarify when certificate of occupancy requirements and other CO triggers apply.
Bertrand said Red’s Corner has already widened access ramps, improved circulation and plans to add staff procedures to police parking and keep fire lanes clear. “We’re going to put just because we know this is something. We want to make it a nonissue completely,” he said of the proposed hedging and resodding.
The motion to approve the conditional zoning (Z‑O6‑24) as amended passed; the mayor closed the hearing and the council directed staff to incorporate the approved conditions into the written zoning documents. The applicant also agreed to accept two staff edits to applicant condition 2 described in the staff report.
