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Council approves rezoning for Foils building-supply site and annexes Berg Church parcel
Summary
Council approved an annexation for an 8.1-acre Berg Church parcel and a conditional-general rezoning at 3350 Highway 49 for Foils Inc., with conditions requiring buffering, paving, a multi-use path and prohibitions on salvage/scrapyard uses.
Harrisburg — The Town Council voted to adopt an annexation ordinance for an 8.1-acre parcel at 7155 Hickory Ridge Road and separately approved a conditional rezoning for roughly 3.85 acres at 3350 Highway 49 to allow a building-supply retail operation with limited outdoor storage.
Planning staff presented the Berg annexation (petition H202501) as a one-meeting action; Jeff Young, a community planner assisting the church, spoke in support and the council carried the annexation.
Later, planning staff described rezoning petition H202502 for the Foils Inc. site. Town staff and the planning board recommended approval with conditions to bring the site into compliance with the Highway 49 corridor plan: dedication of right-of-way, a multi-use path, roadside landscaping and a center median along Highway 49, paving of the customer circulation area, additional buffer plantings and limits on future uses (specifically excluding wrecking, salvage or scrapyard operations). The planning board unanimously recommended approval.
Applicant representatives, including Bridget Grant of the project team and owner Mike Torrance, emphasized cleanup and landscaping commitments. “When you come in, you won't see anything,” Torrance said, describing plans to screen and pave customer areas and to replant a gravel area with saplings.
Residents asked about potential noise, odors or outside cutting operations. Torrance said heavy-cutting work would occur inside the building and occasional outside torching might be necessary but that the company aimed to keep operations visually and audibly contained; staff noted that the site plan leaves existing hardwood stands and provides additional plantings along the rear.
Council closed the public hearing and adopted the rezoning under the one-meeting process. Conditions require adherence to the rezoning site plan, compliance with permitting requirements, and prohibition of salvage and scrapyard activities on the property.
What happens next: the applicant will proceed with permitting and must execute the site improvements required by the rezoning conditions.
