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Planning Board Regular Meeting

Town of Fuquay-Varina · Planning Board
Monday, October 20, 2025

Regular meeting RezoningAppointments and personnelComprehensive planHousing and affordabilityLand conversion and large development

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What was decided

  1. Approved 2.AApproval of the Minutes from the August 18, 2025 Planning Board Meeting Passed 6-0

Read from the agenda's recorded outcomes. Where the board published minutes, those are the record — this is a pointer to them.

What's on this agenda

Three rezonings, all recommended 6-0, and each driven by something specific the current zoning will not allow. One property owner has a tenant who wants to open a salon. Another pair are nearing retirement and preparing to sell to commercial interests. The third wants to divide an upstairs living area into two rental apartments.

The third case is the one worth noting: staff acknowledged the rezoning does not match the land use plan, so the petitioner asked to change the plan instead. The board also marked a member's departure after ten years.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

On N Main Street the two cases were straightforward and adjoining. At 1517 the owners have a tenant interested in opening a salon and cannot let them under the current classification. At 1513, 0.826 acres, the owners are nearing retirement, have been approached by commercial interests and are preparing to relocate. Both move to corridor commercial conditional zoning, and neither drew opposition or board discussion beyond how the second sits within the existing commercial district.

The Purfoy Road case is a pizza restaurant site, currently a live-work unit under maintenance and upgrades. The owner wants to split the large upstairs living area into two smaller rental apartments, which the corridor commercial district does not permit, so the request moves it to general commercial. Staff were direct that the zoning change is not consistent with the land use plan's neighbourhood commercial classification for the site, and that the petitioner therefore asked to amend the plan to suburban commercial, which staff called compatible with the property's current use and proposed zoning. The board discussed the distinction between vertical mixed use and live-work units and which districts permit each.

All three carried 6-0 and all three were adopted by the commissioners on November 3. The board closed by recognising a member for ten years of service, as chair from January 2016 to December 2021 and as a member from January 2022. The meeting adjourned at 6:15 pm.

How the votes went

Every vote passed 6-0: the August minutes, all three zoning map amendment recommendations, and adjournment.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

1 member of the public spoke.

  1. A surveyor appearing for the petitioner spoke at all three hearings, explaining the salon tenancy on one site, the owners' pending retirement on the second, and the plan to divide an upstairs living area into two apartments on the third.

Nobody spoke in opposition at any of the three hearings. The only speaker was the applicant's representative.

Read from the records the government published after the meeting. Members of the public are private residents and are not named or indexed.

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Agenda items (5)

Public hearing · 3Minutes approval · 1Presentation · 1
  1. 2.A Approval of the Minutes from the August 18, 2025 Planning Board Meeting
    Minutes approval
    Approval of the August 18, 2025 minutes.
    Passed 6-0
  2. 4.A Zoning Map Amendment - 1517 N Main Street (REZ-2025-10)
    Public hearing Rezoning
    Rezones 1517 N Main Street from Office and Institutional to Corridor Commercial Conditional Zoning. The owners have a tenant interested in opening a salon, a use the current district does not permit.
    Recommended for approval, 6-0
    • 1517 N Main St · Crumpton Family Properties LLC · 1.2 acres · assessed $900,537
  3. 4.B Zoning Map Amendment - 1513 N Main Street (REZ-2025-12)
    Public hearing Rezoning
    Rezones 0.826 acres at 1513 N Main Street from Residential Agricultural to Corridor Commercial Conditional Zoning. The owners are nearing retirement, have been approached by commercial interests and are preparing to relocate.
    Recommended for approval, 6-0
    • 1513 N Main St · Schnaak, Robert Neil Schnaak, Jean C · 0.83 acres · assessed $818,147
    • 1513 N Main St · Schnaak, Robert Neil Schnaak, Jean C · 0.83 acres · assessed $818,147
  4. 4.C Zoning Map Amendment & Land Use Plan Amendment - 7509 Purfoy Road (REZ-2025-11)
    Public hearing Comprehensive planHousing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentRezoning
    Rezones 0.799 acres at 7509 Purfoy Road, a restaurant site operating as a live-work unit, from Corridor Commercial to General Commercial Conditional Zoning so the upstairs living area can be divided into two rental apartments. Staff acknowledged the rezoning is not consistent with the site's neighbourhood commercial land use plan classification, so the petitioner sought a matching plan amendment to suburban commercial. The board discussed how vertical mixed use differs from live-work and which districts allow each.
    Recommended for approval, 6-0
    • 7509 Purfoy Rd · Al-Najjar, Mahmoud K · 0.80 acres · assessed $1,191,814
    • 7509 Purfoy Rd · Al-Najjar, Mahmoud K · 0.80 acres · assessed $1,191,814
  5. 5.A Recognition - Planning Board Member Ed Ridpath
    Presentation Appointments and personnel
    Recognizes a departing board member for ten years of service, as chair from January 2016 to December 2021 and as a member from January 2022 to October 2025.

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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