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SUMMERFIELD – The Summerfield Planning Board decided this past Monday, Sept. 27, to delay its recommendation on a rezoning request by landscaping company owner Pete Bryant. He is seeking the rezoning of nearly 4.5 acres at 6212 Lake Brandt Road for the expansion of his two companies, Southern Exposure Landscape Management and Southern Lights Outdoor Lighting & Audio. Bryant is requesting the rezoning of the tract, next to Summerfield Fire Station 39, from single family residential (RS-30) to conditional zoning industrial (CZ-IND) district. The request excludes several usages that could be allowed in a CZ-IND district, such as a homeless shelter, a landfill and a laundry or carpet cleaning plant. However, it doesn’t exclude several others. As a result, if Bryant were to sell the property, the new owner could build a warehouse or freight facility, a go cart track, convenience store or nightclub, according to the town’s unified development ordinance. Bryant said he’s seeking the same conditions as in his earlier request to rezone the location of his business at N.C. 150 and Lake Brandt Road. He said he wants to secure rezoning of the new property “where we can grow” because his current location is landlocked. Board Chair Dick Feulner said he supports Bryant’s expansion plans, but 2 SEPT. 30 - OCT. 6, 2021 The Northwest Observer • Totally local since 1996 not his rezoning request because it

leaves open the possibility of development unsuitable for the area.

“Does the broadness of this particular district cause anyone any heartburn?” Feulner asked. At his suggestion, the board decided to continue its consideration of the request until 6 p.m. next Monday, Oct. 4, to give Bryant and Brad Rentz, the town’s planning technician, the chance to revise the request. “I think we’re better off being as specific as possible” about uses that are included and excluded in the rezoning, Town Attorney Bob Hornik said.

Separately, the board recommended approval of two other rezoning requests. The Town Council will consider approval of the three requests during its Oct. 12 meeting.

Garland and Suzanne Vandergrift, owners of Greensboro Performing Arts, are seeking the rezoning of nearly six acres at 7200 Summerfield Road to convert the former Cathedral of Faith Christian Center into a dance, music and arts studio.

The Vandergrifts are seeking the rezoning of the property from light industrial (LI) to Neighborhood Business District (NB), which permits the operation of a dance studio.

In the other case, owner Reid Holt Martin is seeking the rezoning of roughly 4.8 acres at 2854 Fleming Road from agricultural district (AG) to conditional zoning – rural residential (CZ-RR) to create two residential lots. The property is located on the east side of Fleming Road south of Pleasant Ridge Road.

Meet your (Stokesdale) town council candidates

File photo Friends of Stokesdale will host an open house Oct. 7, 7 p.m. at Stokesdale Town Hall for citizens to meet and talk with the candidates for Stokesdale Town Council.

An open house will be held Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. for residents to meet one-on-one with Stokesdale Town Council candidates

STOKESDALE – An open house will be held Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. so that residents of Stokesdale can meet and talk one-on-one with the candidates who will be on the Nov. 2 ballot for Stokesdale Town Council. As a service to the community, the event is being organized and hosted by Friends of Stokesdale, a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the historic character of Stokesdale’s town core and cultivating civic pride and a sense of local community.

The Oct. 7 open house will be held in Council chambers at Stokesdale Town Hall, 8325 Angel Pardue Road in Stokesdale.

Mayor John Flynt and first-time candidate Mike Crawford are running for Stokesdale mayor, which is a 4-year term. Frank Bruno, Tim Jones, Mark Nadel and Alisa Houk will be on the ballot for the open town council seat, also a 4-year term.

Summerfi eld Charter, Revolution Academy report quarantines

Despite similar numbers, masking policies differ at the two charter schools

by CHRIS BURRITT

NW GUILFORD – Two Summerfield charter schools with differing masking policies reported more than three dozen quarantines this week related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

About 40 students at Summerfield Charter Academy on U.S. 220 are quarantining, including 28 students in a third-grade class who are out of school for the remainder of this week, Principal Rudy Swofford said. At Revolution Academy on N.C. 150, 35 students and staff members are quarantining, according to Principal Mary Catherine Sauer.

Despite the similarity of their quarantine numbers, masking requirements vary in the two schools. Swofford said he’s granted only one mask exemption at Summerfield Charter, while 288 students and staff members at Revolution Academy are exempted ...continued on p. 6

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