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Board approves rezoning for proposed Hickory Flat medical office with lighting and use conditions
Summary
The commission approved rezoning of 6.02 acres on Hickory Flat Highway to Office & Institutional for a proposed medical office building, with proffered conditions including use limits, a two‑story cap, landscape buffers and outdoor lighting capped at about 3,000 Kelvin and automatic dimming. The vote was unanimous.
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved rezoning for a planned medical office on Hickory Flat Highway at its Feb. 3 meeting.
County planning staff (Trey) described Case 26001‑1, in which the applicant requested rezoning of roughly 6.02 acres from estate residential (R80) to Office & Institutional to accommodate a two‑story, roughly 12,000‑square‑foot medical office. The planning commission recommended approval with proffered conditions that restrict certain uses (for example, substance‑abuse facilities and hotels were listed as prohibited under the proposed O&I designation), require a 10‑foot landscaping strip and a 30‑foot buffer where applicable, and limit building height to two stories.
Staff also presented revised proffered lighting conditions requiring low color‑temperature fixtures. "The outdoor lighting shall emit a low color temperature, having a Kelvin temperature of no more than 3,000," Trey said during the staff presentation. The proffers also include a provision that exterior lighting be turned off or dimmed after specified hours unless activated by motion sensors and to return to dim/off not more than 15 minutes after the last detected motion.
Commissioner Wetherbee moved to approve the rezoning with the ten conditions listed on the screen; Commissioner Cagle seconded. The motion carried unanimously.
Next steps: the rezoning is approved subject to the proffered conditions; any building permits, site plan approvals and inspections will follow through the county’s permitting process.
