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Stallings approves conditional zoning for Pleasant Plains town-center project, 5–1
Summary
Council approved conditional zoning CZ250203 to allow 12 shopfronts and 23 townhomes in the Pleasant Plains Town Center, adopting phasing and streetscape conditions and requiring the streetscape condition be recorded with the register of deeds; the vote passed five to one with one councilmember opposed.
Stallings Town Council voted to approve conditional zoning CZ250203, a 2.63-acre mixed-use project on Pleasant Plains Road that would add 12 shopfront units with ground-floor commercial space and 23 townhomes behind them.
Planner Max presented the revisions council requested earlier in the review process, including a phasing requirement that limits more than half of the townhomes from receiving certificates of occupancy until at least half of the shopfront units have shell certificates of occupancy. The approval also incorporates streetscape standards from the town plan: an 18-foot streetscape zone composed of a 12-foot concrete sidewalk and a 6-foot paver strip, with an interim landscape-strip option until adjacent parcels develop.
Council debated how an interim streetscape requirement would be enforced if adjacent parcels never build out. Staff explained the condition is part of the conditional zoning and runs with the land; staff may record the condition with the register of deeds and use code-enforcement remedies or require the condition be met through permitting and recorded agreements. Council added an explicit direction to record the condition with the register of deeds.
A motion to approve CZ250203 with the stated development conditions and to ensure the streetscape condition recorded on the deed passed on a voice vote (five in favor, one opposed). Council also adopted findings that the request is consistent and reasonable with the town’s comprehensive land-use plan and cited North Carolina General Statute 160D in its consistency statement.
What’s next: With conditional zoning approved, the project will proceed to permitting, during which the applicant must satisfy the development conditions and obtain required state encroachment and stormwater approvals before construction.
