TITLE
Title
HOLD PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER REZONING CASE #17-07-GCPL-03453: CU-HI-SP to AMENDED CZ-HI-SP
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
J. Leslie Bell
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BACKGROUND
Background
Rezoning Case #17-07-GCPL-03453 is a request by Lehigh Hanson (“Applicant”) to rezone approximately 351.98 acres near the corner of McClellan and Racine Road, being Tax Parcel #s 0132396, 0132538, and 0132537, just south of the town of Pleasant Garden (Guilford County Case #17-07-GCPL-03453) in the Fentress Township. The Planning Board held its public hearing at its Regular Meeting on September 13, 2017. This Conditional Rezoning is a request to change the existing Conditional Zoning designation and use from Heavy Industrial - Clay Mining (approved by the Guilford County Planning Board on September 13, 2000) to Heavy Industrial - Mining and Quarrying.
As the Chair of the Planning Board had been allowed to recuse himself from participating, there were eight (8) Planning Board members participating in the hearing. Per Section 3.12.2(H) of the Guilford County Development Ordinance, the following three possible results from a vote of the Planning Board on a rezoning matter include:
1) A favorable 5/7's (71.4%) vote, from the Planning Board shall constitute final action unless appealed in accordance with Article IX (Administration);
2) Applications receiving less than a 5/7's (71.4%) favorable vote, but a majority favorable vote from the Planning Board members present and voting shall constitute a favorable recommendation of the application and shall be forwarded to the Governing Body; and
3) Applications receiving less than a majority favorable vote or unfavorable from the Planning Board shall constitute denial of the application unless appealed in accordance with Section 9-8
(Appeals).
With eight (8) members present and voting, it would require a minimum of six (6) f...
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