HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_1292 (2)Proclamation
Declaring
,January 15-22,2004 as Diversity Making A Difference In Honor
of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Week
WHEREAS, the Children's Museum of Iredell County, the Greater Statesville
Chamber of Commerce, Habitat for Humanity of Iredell County, IMPACT, Inc., Mitchell
Community College, Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Zion Church, STAR (Standing Together Against
Racism), Statesville Branch NAACP & the YMCA of Iredell County, collectively known as the
MLK Partners, have joined together to provide community activities over eight days, so that
residents of Iredell County can join in fellowship in the spirit of unity; and
WHEREAS, the community activities will include programs celebrating and
commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Health Fair, Cultural Fair,
a Community Worship Service, a Community Prayer Breakfast with The Honorable Elizabeth
Dole, United States Senate, as featured speaker, a Habitat for Humanity House Build Day and
the presentation of the play "Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad'% and
WHEREAS, the inspiration for the eight-day series of events, designed to reach out
and make a difference in the lives of the residents of Iredell County, came from the teachings of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOW THEREFORE, the Iredell County Board of Commissioners proclaims the week
of January 15-22, 2004, as Diversity Making A Difference In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther, King,
Jr. Week.
PUBLIC HEARING
Chairman Johnson declared the meeting to be in a public hearing and invited all
audience members desiring to speak in reference to Rezoning Case No. 0311-1 and its
conditional uses to come forward and be sworn in.
Case No. 0311-1: The North Carolina Services Corporation Requests an
Amendment to the Iredell County Land Use Plan & to Rezone a Portion of
Property from R-20, Single Family Residential to General Business Conditional
Use Zonine District (Location: 145 Auction Lane, Statesville, NC): Planning
Supervisor Ron Smith said the Statesville Auto Auction (North Carolina Services
Corporation) had requested to rezone 10.4922 acres of an 11.669 acre tract (PIN#4746-
95-2688) from R-20 to GB -CUD. He said the existing land use was vacant, and the
surrounding uses were residential, commercial and vacant. Smith said a parcel to the
north of the current rezoning request was rezoned in 2000 from RA to HB -CUD, and
the land use plan was amended to include the area as commercial. Later, in March of
2001, he said the owners rezoned the same parcel to GB -CUD with several conditions.
Smith said the auction company had received written endorsements for the current
request from most of the adjacent landowners, and the staff recommended approval of
the rezoning and the land use plan amendment. Smith said it was anticipated that the
portion of property not included in the request would be sold, and this would eliminate
the possibility of the auto auction using Carl Austin Road for egress and ingress. He
said that on November 12, 2003, the planning board recommended approval of both the
land use plan amendment and the rezoning with the following conditions:
Permitted uses:
Paved automobile parking lots and facilities for permitted use in the district
Automobile parking (commercial)
Automobile storage
Structures & uses clearly incidental to a permitted use
Utility equipment and storage yards
• An 8 foot high opaque fence shall be required around the perimeter of the portion of
the parcel to be rezoned