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Fayetteville council continues debate over rezoning for proposed junior‑high on Marks Mill Lane
Summary
Fayetteville City Council held an extended hearing on RZN 2025-48, a request to rezone about 26.7 acres near North Marks Mill Lane from RSF‑4/Urban Corridor to P‑1 institutional to allow a new junior‑high campus. Staff and the school district defended site suitability; neighbors and environmental groups pressed questions on traffic, geotechnical risks, canopy loss and emergency access. Council left the matter on second reading and asked for additional traffic, geotechnical and FEMA/floodway information before Dec. 16.
Council continued consideration of RZN 2025‑48, a rezoning petition to change roughly 26.7 acres south of North Marks Mill Lane in Ward 3 from RSF‑4 and Urban Corridor to P‑1 institutional, a move that would clear the way for a possible Fayetteville Public Schools junior‑high campus.
Kit, representing city planning staff, summarized the request and the Planning Commission’s positive recommendation (7–1, 1 recusal), noting staff’s endorsement and a construction timeline the applicant estimates at about 26 months with a target school opening of August 2028. The applicant’s team—represented at the meeting by district official Dr. Mulford and design and engineering consultants—said prior geotechnical work shows the site is buildable and that supplemental borings and foundation design work are in progress.
Traffic dominated council scrutiny. Council members said an October traffic study that had been circulated contained assumptions that prompted concern among neighbors. Nathan Becknell, the…
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