Business & Real Estate Briefs

The owner is seeking a bigger pool of potential commercial users, drawing objections from some nearby residents

by CHRIS BURRITT

SUMMERFIELD – The owner of 2.8 acres containing a vacant Quonset hut guarded by an ornate iron fence is seeking a rezoning of the property to attract more potential buyers.

Owner Lisa Waynick is requesting the rezoning of two parcels at 3812 and 3820 Oak Ridge Road (N.C. 150) from conditional use – limited business (CU-LB) to general-purpose business zoning (BN).

An informational meeting led by Summerfield town planner Brad Rentz last Thursday, July 14, drew several nearby residents who objected to the rezoning request. They expressed concerns about the potential for more traffic with further commercial development on N.C. 150.

“All the rural is just about gone,” said Cordelia Pearsall of Draper Road.

and 3820 Oak Ridge Road (N.C. 150)

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Photo courtesy of Lisa Waynick This impressive wrought-iron gate and fence guard the entrance to a long-vacant Quonset hut on 2.8 acres along N.C. 150 in Summerfi eld, adjacent to Revolution Academy. The gate and fence were reportedly at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt until Egypt’s war with Israel in 1976.

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The request to rezone nearly 31 acres at N.C. 150 and SpencerDixon Road for commercial use will go before Guilford County commissioners Aug. 4

by PATTI STOKES

NORTHERN GREENSBORO – Greensboro-based First Acres, LLC, got a thumbs down from the Guilford County Planning Board after a public hearing for the company’s rezoning request in May. The Guilford County commissioners will consider the board’s recommendation to deny the request when it holds a second public hearing Aug. 4 before making a final decision. If approved, the request would 16 JULY 21 - AUG. 3, 2022 The Northwest Observer • Totally local since 1996 change zoning on the 31-acre tract at the corner of N.C. 150 and Spencer-Dixon Road from AG, intended for agricultural operations and farm residences on large tracts of land, and RS-40, intended to accommodate single-family residential detached dwellings on minimum lot sizes of 40,000 square feet, to CZ-GB (conditional use – General Business).

The applicant’s conditions on the requested CZ-GB zoning would exclude several uses typically allowed in a GB zoning, while still allowing a wide variety of commercial uses including general office, medical or professional office, a bank or finance company with a drive-through, retail, a garden center or nursery, bakery, restaurant, auto supply sales, auto rental or leasing and a car wash.

Attorney Amanda Hodierne of Greensboro spoke on behalf of First Acres at the Planning Board’s May meeting, along with a traffic engineer hired by the company and a local Realtor. ...continued on p. 18