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Board narrows group-care rules to allow larger facilities; amendment passes 3–1
Summary
The Mocksville Town Board voted 3–1 to amend zoning definitions for group care facilities, increasing the Group A capacity threshold from 40 to 80 and adding for-profit operators to certain definitions; the planning board had recommended the change and one commissioner opposed.
The Mocksville Town Board voted 3–1 to amend the town zoning ordinance’s definitions for group care facilities, increasing the maximum size for Group A facilities from 40 to 80 residents and clarifying language for Group C facilities (200 or fewer residents). The amendments also add for-profit operators to the definitions where previously the language referenced nonprofit operators.
Johnny Easter presented the changes for the planning staff and said they are intended to align the ordinance with real-world facility sizes and existing local facilities. “All we’re asking to is just to kind of clean up the original definitions to be more in a real world application,” Easter said.
A board member asked whether an existing proposed facility would fit under the new threshold; Johnny Easter replied, “70 — right around 70,” indicating such a facility would be under the revised 80-person limit. The planning board had unanimously approved the text amendment at its March meeting.
During the vote the measure carried by a 3–1 margin; the meeting record shows Jenny Stevenson opposed the amendment. The board did not attach additional operational conditions at the meeting; future permitting, licensing and any state licensure requirements would still apply to facilities that seek to operate under the revised definitions.
