Notes from the Greensboro Zoning Commission
Malachi House, a faith-based program for recovering addicts, will have to look beyond Anderson Street to expand its offerings.
The Greensboro Zoning Commission, in a unanimous vote, denied Monday program founder Eugene Peterson's request to rezone property at 4423 Anderson St. for a boarding and rooming house.
A handful of the nine board members present commended Peterson, a drug and alcohol addict who has been clean for 15 years, on his work with the men who come to Malachi, on Balboa Street, for help.
But the neighborhood, commissioners and city planners said, needs to remain as residential as possible.
Peterson has owned an Anderson Street home for about a year. He currently houses four Malachi House graduates there as they look for work and homes of their own. That's kosher. But putting more than four unrelated people into the home - and Peterson wants to house up to nine men - would require a rezoning and a permit from the city for a rooming house.
Neighbors signed a petition against the Malachi expansion, and a handful of Anderson Street residents showed up Monday to speak against the plans.
After the jump, a roundup of other zoning activity ...
The commission unanimously approved a rezoning of 0.96 acres on Lawndale Drive for a small retail center. The former home of the Lawndale Chiropractic Center, near Food Lion and The Fresh Market, could house tenants including a dress shop and a coffee shop, said Charles Scott of Scott Realty Co.
A request to rezone 2.3 acres at 6914-1916 W. Market St. to hold fuel tanks was postponed a month while Petroleum Fuel & Terminal Co. and its neighbors talk things out.
The board unanimously approved a rezoning of half an acre on West Market for small businesses. The building at 4609 W. Market St., near Bert's Seafood Grille, is owned by Richard Clayton and once housed Clayton Interiors. Clayton hopes to lease the building to business tenants now that he has retired.
Commissioners voted 9-0 in favor of a rezoning of 7.16 acres at 1808 New Garden Road to allow for some minor technical changes to a Starmount Residential plan. Starmount plans to put 20 homes on the site, which the zoning board reviewed earlier this year. Details of the development have not changed.
The commission unanimously approved a rezoning of 0.26 acres on Bradford Street near State Street Station for an office business. A couple that recently moved to Greensboro from Miami hopes to operate a Web-based business from the old house at 1918 and 1920 Bradford St.
The zoning commission meets next Jan. 8. As always, the meeting will take place at 2 p.m. in the City Council chambers of the Melvin Municipal Office Building downtown.