Residents will weigh in on zoning requests during meeting
By Ethan Smith
Published in News on October 18, 2015 1:50 AM
Five public hearings are expected to unfold at -- and potentially draw a crowd to -- Monday evening's Goldsboro City Council meeting.
The first hearing will deal with a zoning request by Robert Earl Grant to zone a vacant property as General Business Conditional District so he can use the property for warehouse, office and retail sales areas for chemicals and industrial supplies.
Grant's property is located on the south side of Collier Street, between Jordan Boulevard and Hargrove Street.
But the zoning issue is not the only one prompting a hearing Monday.
The public will also have the opportunity to weigh in on the proposed construction of a solar farm on the east side of Salem Church Road, between Belfast Road and Stoney Hill Road.
The property is currently vacant farmland, and the applicant -- Highwater Solar II -- is requesting the property be rezoned to a R-20A conditional district in order to limit the use of the property so it would allow a solar farm to be built there.
A third public hearing involves a request by The Three J's Inc. to allow the proposed location on the northeast corner of U.S. 70 East and North Oak Forest Road to be rezoned from a shopping center zoning to general business conditional district.
This rezoning is necessary for the applicant to proceed with plans to build a car dealership on the property, and development plans would be approved separately.
Next a public hearing will be held for a conditional use permit to be issued to Mark Kuhns for his property at the northeast corner of Shelley Drive and Samuel Road.
He wants the conditional use permit to allow the construction of an accessory dwelling on his property that will extend 10 feet beyond the established building line for the primary structure already on the property.
The last public hearing of the night will be for a conditional use permit to allow Wooten Development to build a flea market on the southwest corner of U.S. 117 South and Vann Street.
The proposed hours of operation for the flea market are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and it will be 24,000 square feet.
No action will be taken by the council on any of these public hearings at Monday night's meeting, and the items will all come back before the council at a later date for a final decision.
The council's work session starts at 5 p.m. Monday night, and the regular council meeting starts at 7 p.m.