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Beaufort County Council rejects staff-backed rezoning of county-owned conservation parcels
Summary
After lengthy debate over conservation goals and property-rights impacts, Beaufort County Council voted against an ordinance to rezone 16 county-owned rural-and-critical parcels to a nature-preserve category intended to align zoning with the county’s conservation purchases.
Beaufort County Council declined to approve a staff-backed ordinance that would have changed the zoning for 16 county-owned parcels purchased through the rural and critical lands program, voting the measure down after roughly an hour of questions and debate.
County planning staff told council the parcels were purchased for conservation and that rezoning them to the lowest-density category (T1, nature preserve) would make the underlying zoning match the stated preservation purpose of the purchases. “All of these properties were purchased with rural and critical lands funds,” said a county planning…
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