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Council amends conditions for Old Guard Road rezoning after residents raise traffic and sidewalk concerns
Summary
Developers sought rezoning for two Old Guard Road parcels and requested removal of earlier conditions; Councilor Lehi Davis negotiated replacement conditions requiring a site plan and landscaped buffer while waiving a short sidewalk segment; the rezoning items were scheduled for final vote in two weeks after further refinements.
Council considered two rezoning petitions for adjoining parcels on Old Guard Road and heard detailed public comment on traffic, sidewalks and density on March 10.
Developer representative Joshua Muir (Sanford Group) described the request to rezone adjacent parcels to Single‑Family Residential 4 (SFR‑4) and to remove several older, site‑specific zoning conditions on the parcel currently listed with restrictions. Councilor Lehi Davis said he had met with the developer and negotiated replacement conditions tied to the proponent's submitted site plan: an approved site plan will be required, an approved landscape buffer plan will replace one portion of the prior restrictions, and a short sidewalk segment adjacent to undisturbed frontage would be waived and the funds instead used for enhanced landscape buffering at the entrance. "They've agreed on the landscape plan and a waiver of the sidewalk section out front," Davis said during debate.
Nearby residents, including Beth Leatherwood (owner at 2040 Old Guard Road), opposed rezoning to higher density and asked council to preserve previously promised protections, citing school‑route safety and existing traffic concerns. "If you're putting 276 houses in there, the traffic that this is going to bring and the children that could be walking to school would need a sidewalk to walk on," Leatherwood told council, asking for a developer meeting and additional traffic mitigations.
The developer said a traffic impact study had been completed and that the proponent planned single‑family home price points around $375,000–$450,000 with HOA maintenance of open space and landscaping. Councilors confirmed they would return both items to the agenda in two weeks for final action after staff refines the landscape/site plan language and posts the amended conditions.
What happened procedurally: Council adopted an amendment on the floor to remove the three old conditions on 2045 Old Guard Road and to replace them with the submitted site plan and the approved landscape buffer, while waiving the short, isolated sidewalk segment in exchange for enhanced landscape buffering; the full rezoning vote for the parcels was scheduled for a future meeting.
Attributions: Quotes and attributions come from speakers who self‑identified during the public record or were introduced by council for the record.
