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Hit up Tuesday's News & Record for details on rezonings for a Koury Corp. retail project and a city park. Both proposals nabbed approval from the city's Zoning Commission on Monday, but both will head before the City Council on Nov. 7.
The Koury project, which could include a stadium-seating movie theater, two 7,000-square-foot restaurants and 82,550 square feet of stores, passed the commission with a 5-1 vote. Commissioner Evelyn Miller, who works for Koury, recused herself, and commissioners Paul Gilmer and Susan Spangler were absent. Favorable votes of five or fewer commissioners automatically go to the council.
In other news ...
The commission unanimously approved a rezoning of 0.22 acres on the north side of Ryan Street between Tucker and Joyce streets for a daycare center owned by Vincent Whitt.
Commissioners also gave their unanimous stamp of approval to a rezoning of 0.864 acres for the final portion of City View Apartments. The apartment project, a partnership between downtown big-wig developers including Bob Isner, Milton Kern and Signature Properties, will go up near the Depot, where Organic Pigments and other industrial properties now stand. The rest of the land was rezoned months ago, but the developers had to purchase the final 0.8 acres from the city, which will retain a cellular tower on the small piece of property next to the water tower on McAdoo Avenue.
The board unanimously approved a rezoning of 0.351 acres on West Market Street across from Winola Court for Sergio Gonzalez. Gonzalez plans to renovate and adapt an existing building on the site for a Western-wear store.
Board members unanimously approved a rezoning of 0.327 acres at 2204 East Market St. currently occupied by Morehead Heating & Air Conditioning. The longtime owners of the business are retiring and hope to sell the property to the owners of Spectrum Wireless.
The board voted 6-1 to approve a rezoning of 8.4 acres between Brightwood School Road and the Loop for We Are One Church, which plans to put up a multi-purpose building, followed by a church building, on the site. The church property, next to Brightwood Elementary School, would include a 9,000 square-foot building available for weddings, funerals and a number of other events and community functions, said pastor Richard Johnson. The congregation, Johnson said, is about 100 people. Commissioner Cyndy Hayworth, new to the board, voted against the rezoning without commenting on her stance. The council will review the rezoning at its Nov. 7 meeting.
The commission unanimously approved a 0.63-acre rezoning for a townhome development on West Cornwallis Drive between Elmwood Drive and Wrenn Street. Plans for the project, which includes surrounding property rezoned at a prior meeting, show 12 units in six buildings. The townhomes will be made mostly of brick and will be no taller than two stores. Each with have at least a two-car garage.