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Council OKs Sylvan Terrace rezoning

By Bill Moss, Published: March 1, 2018

The Hendersonville City Council on Thursday authorized a rezoning that would allow a developer to build six single-family homes on 1.67 acres in Sylvan Terrace.

The rezoning came despite neighbors' concerns about increased traffic on winding and narrow Sylvan Boulevard. Several neighbors attended a city Planning Board meeting but only one person raised questions at the council meeting on Thursday night. The Planning Board voted 4-2 to recommend that the City Council OK the rezoning.

“It’s a very peaceful, quiet neighborhood and we’re all just thinking about the construction trucks,” said Kathleen Menck, of 905 Sylvan Blvd. “Our street is already a small street.”

Property owner Chuck Anderson requested the rezoning from R-15 to R-10 for the sloping property on Sylvan Boulevard east of Orleans Avenue and north of Knollwood Drive. Anderson, a home builder, wanted the change to a higher density not to add more homes but to gain the flexibility on where the houses can be built, landscape architect Scott Bolyard told the Planning Board. The current R-15 zone requires residential lots to be at least 15,000 square feet. The requested to change to R-10 zoning would allow 10,000-square-foot lots, or a quarter acre, and smaller setbacks and buffers and would make it easier to fit six single-family homes on the high-end of the parcel, Bolyard said.