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Council approves Tramway Road annexation; hears Parkside Village rezoning proposal
Summary
Sanford Council unanimously approved annexation and rezoning assignment for a 3.021-acre Tramway Road parcel and held a public hearing on the Parkside Village conditional rezoning for 127 single-family and 144 multifamily units, with neighbors pressing concerns about buffers, floodplain management, traffic, and preservation of an existing house.
Sanford ' The Sanford City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance to annex 3.021 acres on Tramway Road and assigned the parcel to Electoral Ward No. 4 after a public hearing on April 21.
Long-Range Planning Administrator David Montgomery told council the annexation is requested so the property can be marketed commercially; petitioner representative Martha Lucas said the owners seek rezoning to increase marketability. The council approved the annexation and ward assignment without objection.
Earlier in the evening the council and planning staff conducted a separate public hearing on a conditional rezoning application called Parkside Village, covering roughly 60 acres on the south side of Wicker Street/NC Highway 42. The applicant, Mark Lyczkowski of ML Consulting of Sanford, described a mixed residential proposal with 127 single-family lots and 144 multifamily units distributed across six apartment buildings. He said the developer completed a Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) with FEMA and intends to submit a final Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) after grading, adding that the proposal preserves a footprint for an existing home that may be repurposed as a clubhouse if structurally feasible.
Neighbors whose properties border the development raised concerns about traffic and left turns onto Wicker Street, perimeter buffers and tree preservation, trespassing and off-road vehicles, and the potential effects of development on drainage and floodplain boundaries. Applicant Lyczkowski said the project includes a 50-foot southern buffer (wider than required), a preserved 100-foot parkway buffer along Wicker Street, and a proposed public greenway dedication; he agreed to discuss fencing requests with adjoining property owners.
The planning board retired to consider the Parkside Village application; the minutes do not record a final council decision on the rezoning at this meeting. Council members reminded staff that state law requires a zoning classification assignment within 60 days of annexation when applicable.
What to watch: If approved after further review, Parkside Village will require UDO compliance for flood hazard areas, buffers, and utility connections and will likely proceed through conditional site-plan review and permitting.
