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Carroll County commissioners deny rezoning for 80‑acre industrial development
Summary
The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted 7–0 to deny a request to rezone roughly 79–80 acres along U.S. 27 to industrial for five warehouses and potential light manufacturing, citing an incomplete record and concerns about infrastructure, traffic and changes in the proposed use.
Carroll County commissioners voted unanimously on March 3 to deny a rezoning application that would have changed about 79–80 acres along U.S. 27 from agricultural and commercial designation to industrial use for five warehouse/manufacturing buildings.
The decision came after a multi-hour zoning hearing in which county staff, the applicant and several residents debated whether the record was sufficient for an industrial rezoning. Ben Skipper, the county’s director of community development, told the board the planning commission had recommended approval 4–3 but that staff had recommended denial to the planning commission. Skipper read the state-submitted summary describing “industrial warehousing” of five buildings (three roughly 100,000 square feet, one about 194,000 and one about 72,000) on roughly 79.73 acres, and confirmed that the state’s Development-of-Regional-Impact process had been initiated where applicable.
Opponents and several…
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