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Environmental board recommends wider buffers, native plants and solar conditions for North Salem mixed‑use rezoning
Summary
The Apex Environmental Advisory Board recommended a set of environmental conditions for a proposed 32.3‑acre North Salem Street PUD — including wider buffers, higher native‑plant percentages, pet waste stations and PV/EV readiness — and voted to send those recommendations to planning staff.
The Environmental Advisory Board on Monday recommended environmental conditions for a proposed 32.3‑acre planned unit development at North Salem Street and All Wheel Drive, and voted to forward those recommendations to planning staff.
Matthew Carpenter, an attorney with Parker Poe representing the developer Merit Group, presented the project as a mixed‑use PUD with roughly 250 multifamily units and 200 townhomes and said the plan would preserve a prominent on‑site pond and place buffers around the adjacent stream. “The existing pond will be preserved,” Carpenter said, and the concept retains stream buffers and a conservation area around the pond.
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