Panel backs rezoning of site from industrial to commercial

The Rolesville Planning Board has backed a proposed rezoning of nearly four acres on South Main Street from industrial to commercial — a move town staff said is consistent with the town’s Main Street Vision Plan.

The planning board at its May 28 meeting voted unanimously to recommend that the Rolesville Town Board of Commissioners approve the requested rezoning from the General Industrial Zoning District to the General Commercial Conditional Zoning District.

The town of Rolesville Planning Department in March received an initial rezoning application for a 3.778-acre tract on the western side of South Main Street, just north of Jonesville Road and south of Burlington Mills Road. The property is currently within the town’s Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.

The applicant has also petitioned for voluntary annexation into the town of Rolesville. That petition will be presented alongside the rezoning request to the town commissioners.

Although no specific use was included officially as part of the rezoning request, the applicant’s submittal did indicate an intent to locate a car wash at the site.

“We believe a car wash, a vehicular centered commercial use, would be compatible with the adjacent existing and proposed developments,” the applicant states.

The request to change the zoning from General Industrial to General Commercial Conditional includes proposed Conditions of Approval indicating the intent to exclude a number of uses that otherwise would be permitted under the General Commercial zoning: bars and nightclubs; funeral homes; gas station; schools (K-12); vehicle, minor service; vehicle, rental and sales; tattoo establishment  telecommunications tower; and water storage tower.

“The applicant’s rezoning request is inconsistent with the town of Rolesville’s Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Plan but is consistent with the Main Street Vision Plan, whereby commercial, service, and retail development is more appropriate directly fronting and accessed from South Main Street than are typical industrial uses facilitated by the existing General Industrial zoning district,” town staff said in the report to the planning board.

Staff recommended that the planning board act favorably on the request “due to its consistency with the Main Street Vision plan, alignment with other surrounding tracts that have been rezoned to General Commercial Districts in recent years, and the synergy this tract, as a GC district, will have with the nearby Wallbrook development and the soon to be completed Main Street and Burlington Mills Road realignment improvements.”

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