Quonset hut rezoning request withdrawn

Quonset hut owner withdraws rezoning request

Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO The owner of a 2.8-acre tract along N.C. 150 in Summerfi eld that includes this Quonset hut is hoping to rezone the property and expand its potential commercial uses.

Summerfi eld’s Planning Board favors more restrictive commercial development of the property on N.C. 150

by CHRIS BURRITT

SUMMERFIELD – Property owner Lisa Waynick withdrew her request for the rezoning of 2.8 acres that includes a Quonset hut after Summerfield’s Planning Board objected to the wide range of potential commercial uses.

The board voted unanimously during its July 25 meeting to accept Waynick’s withdrawal of the rezoning application for two tracts at 3818 and 3820 Oak Ridge Road (N.C. 150). She said she plans to return with a new application with restrictions on potential business uses.

Waynick had requested the property be rezoned from conditional use – limited business (CU-LB) to generalpurpose business use (BN).

“We want the property to be a service to the community,” she told the Planning Board. She explained she wouldn’t sell her land for an establishment selling alcohol, a gun shooting range or a gas station.

Recognizable for the ornate wrought-iron fence and gate along N.C. 150, the tract is adjacent to Revolution Academy, for which Waynick sold the property in 2020. The public charter school is the type of community-minded use she said she envisions for her adjacent property.

Waynick met resistance, however, from Town Attorney Bob Hornik and Planning Board members.

Hornick discouraged the board from recommending the property be rezoned for general-purpose business if it objected to any of the possible uses.

If the property were rezoned as Waynick sought and then sold, she couldn’t guarantee it would be developed by a future owner as she envisioned, board member Kathy Rooney pointed out.

“If there were things that you wouldn’t sell it for, why didn’t you include them as conditions on this ...continued on p. 8

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