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BRIEFING MINUTES
MAY 1 2000
The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Briefing Session on Monday, May 1,
2000, 5:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (South Wing Conference Room), 200
South Center Street, Statesville, NC 28677.
Present: Chairman Sara Haire Tice
Vice Chairman Steve D. Johnson
Tommy E. Bowles
Alice T. Fortner
Alice M. Stewart
Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, Finance Director Susan Blumenstein,
Planning Supervisor William Allison, Recreation Director Robert Woody, Social Services Director
Don Wall, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore.
CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice.
REZONING CASES: Planning Supervisor William Allison and Planner Lindsey Hobbs
explained the 7:00 p.m., public hearings regarding the zoning requests. In reference to Case 4 0004-
6 (Tsumas Family Limited Partnership) letters from Brigadier General William Lackey, Ret., and
Mrs. Allison Long Hughes were shared. Lackey, a resident of 1040 Bell Farm Road, and Hughes,
a resident of 125 Long Meadow Drive, were both in opposition to amending the land development
plan, the rezoning request, and the various conditional uses.
Commissioner Bowles asked if the roads in the area would receive more truck traffic, ifthe
Tsumas request was granted. He also asked about any other projects that had been of this
magnitude.
Hobbs said the development would basically incur residential traffic. He said the other
major developments in the county had been The Point, The Harbor, and Morrison's Plantation. He
added, however, that all three of these had been in the southern end of the county.
Commissioner Fortner asked if the planners envisioned the Department of Transportation
(DOT) lettingpeople use Bell Farm Road to I-40.
Hobbs said the DOT would probably extend Bell Farm Road to the new Hwy. 70, but he was
not aware of any extensions to 1-40.
Commissioner Johnson asked if the requirements were different in each rezoning
classification.
Hobbs said there were four, different neighborhoods proposed. He said some had more
space between them. Mr. Hobbs said curb and guttering was written in the plan- -the developer had
to insure this was done.
Commissoner Bowles asked if Statesville was interested in the development, should the
requests fail with the county.
Chairman Tice said the city did not want the development- -it would be too far out to provide
the services.
Allison said that due to recent court cases addressing conditional uses and rezonings, that
he had talked with representatives from Centralina and Benchmark. It was recommended by the
planners of these two organizations that all speakers desiring to speak about conditional uses be
sworn in prior to giving comments during the public hearing.