Kernersville approves rezoning to formalize indoor recreation use at Main Street Shopping Center

The Kernersville Board of Aldermen unanimously approved an ordinance May 5 to rezone a 13.393‑acre portion of the Main Street Shopping Center to allow indoor recreation services and to re‑adopt the original site conditions.

Katherine Gardner, the town’s director of community development, told the board the request (zoning docket K740 A1) covers a single‑phase portion of an already built shopping center and does not propose additional buildings or changes to existing vehicular access. Staff and the planning board recommended approval after confirming the as‑built site plan meets the Unified Development Ordinance and that adding the recreation use would not alter the development’s impact on surrounding properties.

Amanda Hodier, the property owner’s agent, said the application is largely a technical cleanup to align the zoning text with an existing tenant: “We’re simply asking … to include a use in the existing conditions,” she said, describing the request as an as‑built confirmation rather than new construction. Hodier told the board a January neighborhood meeting drew a single attendee — a representative from the nearby Catholic diocese — who raised no objections.

No members of the public spoke in opposition during the hearing. Alderman Savanis moved to approve the rezoning; the motion was seconded and carried by unanimous voice vote.

The approval changes the district designation for the affected parcel to GB‑C and explicitly adds recreation services, indoor, to the list of permitted uses. Town staff said the amendment will make the existing fitness and martial‑arts tenants conforming under the ordinance and retains the original transportation and design conditions adopted with the 2015 rezoning.

The ordinance takes effect in accordance with usual town procedures, and staff will reflect the adopted conditions on the official site plan and in the unified development ordinance records.