Gaston County accepts land parcels from Cherryville ETJ

Board places R-1 residential zoning on each of the five parcels

by ADAM GAUB Gaston County Communications

GASTONIA,

N.C.

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Following a vote in May by the Cherryville City Council to hand control of five land parcels in that city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, the Gaston County Board of Commissioners accepted those parcels at a meeting Thursday night, July 27.

As part of accepting the parcels, the board placed the R-1 residential zoning on each of the five parcels, which is similar to the zoning the land was under while a part of Cher- ryville’s ETJ. website. Those items, as per Public works director Chris J. King, were as follows: a 2005 Bandit chipper; a 2011 Ford Escape SUV; a 2009 International garbage truck; a 1989 GMC bucket truck; a 2003 Ford F-250 Super Duty truck; and a 2000 Ford F-150 truck. Council had photos of the listed items and their respective conditions to view in order to see what was being sold and/or listed.

The land in question totals 137.15 acres and has been identified as land that would become a part of the planned Piedmont Lithium mining operation.

The Board’s acceptance of these land parcels is legally required by the state following the Cherryville Council’s vote. It in no way signals any intent on behalf of the County on any future Piedmont Lithium mining proposal.

Next up on the agenda was a discussion by city manager Brian Dalton of Terrace Estates, a new area off Black Rock School Road, that has been the subject of a number of possible housing units being built there at some point. It was decided that the issue will go before the Planning and Zoning Board again. In other business, council was informed that the two Westgate Park courts; See SESSION, Page 4