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Planning panel backs rezoning for Hickory Flat medical office, 9–0

Cherokee County Planning Commission & Board of Commissioners (joint public hearing)
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Summary

The Cherokee County planning body recommended approval of a rezoning request to allow a single 12,000 sq ft medical office on 6.02 acres at 5263 Hickory Flat Highway, citing revised plans that removed a requested buffer variance and multiple proffered conditions including lighting, landscaping and a two-story height limit.

The Cherokee County Planning Commission on a 9–0 voice vote recommended approval of a rezoning request that would allow Hickory Flat Medical Partners to build a medical office at 5263 Hickory Flat Highway.

Staff told the commission the applicant seeks to rezone about 6.02 acres from R80 (residential) to Office & Institutional to permit a single 12,000-square-foot clinic. The staff presentation noted environmental constraints on the site — streams, stream buffers and a floodplain — and said the applicant…

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