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After executive session, council reconsiders and approves previously failed rezoning
Summary
Ordinance 144-2024 initially failed on concerns about cross-border traffic and stormwater; after an executive session the council voted to reconsider and then approved the ordinance.
Council considered ordinance 144-2024 (Melinda Johnson Cavallini, agent for William S. and Betty Jean) and recorded debate focused on traffic and stormwater impacts because the site sits near the North Carolina line. Councilmember Causey said, "I'm a be voting no for this tonight. And particularly the reason is is it's close to the North Carolina line, and we've got so many projects coming up in North Carolina, just across the line that we're not sure about the traffic." The item failed in the councilvote that followed.
After an executive session on contractual negotiations later in the meeting, Causey moved to reconsider ordinance 144-2024; the motion to reconsider passed, and Causey then moved to approve the ordinance. The council voted in favor and the chairman announced the ordinance passed. The transcript records Causey's earlier concern about traffic and stormwater, but no new public comment or recorded substantive technical response to that concern is included in the meeting record.
