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There’s always a cost to protecting property rights. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | property rights | Zoning
The Flat Rock Planning Board will hold a public meeting at Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway, for Flat Rock residents and property owners from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 to gather input from the community as the advisory board and Village Council refine the current Comprehensive Land Use Plan, adopted in 2013 and amended in March and August 2020. Read Story »
The League of Women Voters will host a virtual program with guest speakers from Mountain True sharing principles for sustainable and responsible growth in Henderson County at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | League of Women Voters | 2045 comp plan
The Henderson County Planning Department will hold open house public input meetings as the planners develop a new 2045 comprehensive plan, which guides growth through zoning, the providing of utilities, transportation priorities and other policies. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Zoning | 2045 comp plan
Following more than two years of extensive public input and community engagement, Mills River recently adopted the 2040 Making Mills River comprehensive plan and a master plan for Mills River Park & Recreation. Read Story »
Tags: Mills River | land-use planning | parks and recreation | Making Mills River
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners last week selected a North Carolina-based consultant to guide development of a new comprehensive land-use plan, passing on the top-ranked firm a committee recommended and rejecting one commissioner’s endorsement of a different firm. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | disruptive land uses | Zoning | 2021 comp plan rewrite
MILLS RIVER — Following two years of public input, stakeholder engagement, community outreach and technical analysis, the town of Mills River is inviting the public to preview the Making Mills River Comprehensive Plan. Read Story »
Tags: Mills River | land-use planning | local news
Acting on a rezoning request it delayed a month ago, the Hendersonville City Council approved a conditional rezoning application from James Nobel for the development of three homes on the 303 Chadwick Avenue property Thursday evening. The property was rezoned from C-3 SU, Highway Business Special Use to C-3 CZD, Highway Business Conditional Zoning District. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | land-use planning | Development | stormwater | Chadwick Avenue
A yard at the corner of U.S. 64 and Blythe Street piled with clothing, pictures, household items and an assortment of other oddities has become an eyesore and topic of conversation around town. And now it's been cited for violating the county's nuisance ordinance. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | litter | nuisance violations | Blythe Street
Good job! The city lost 90 years of institutional memory — not to mention friendly service, good humor and exemplary dedication — over the past three months with the retirements of City Clerk Tammie Drake, City Attorney Sam Fritschner and Department of Development Assistance Susan Frady. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Tammie Drake | Susan Frady | in-fill development | Good job! John Connet | Sam Fritschner
The retirement of Hendersonville’s planning, zoning and code enforcement chief has led to a restructuring designed to coordinate the city’s economic development efforts with its zoning functions. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | land-use planning | Lew Holloway | Jamie Carpenter | Susan Frady
A landowner wants to add a bridal house, pavilion and restrooms to an existing mountaintop event space in northern Henderson County. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | weddings
MOUNTAIN HOME — Neighbors of a mobile home that the county declared a public nuisance rejoiced Thursday that years of appeals had finally led to action, in the form of a cleared lot with nothing left but an outdoor deck and an idle trackhoe. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | zoning violations | public nuisance
A property owner is seeking the county's OK to rezone 31 acres on Howard Gap Road at Jackson Road from residential to industrial use. The Henderson County Planning Board will take up the rezoning request during its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the county building at 100 N. King St. Read Story »
Tags: Howard Gap | industry | land-use planning
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners on Monday voted unanimously to deny a rezoning to allow a development of 32 homes in the Haywood Park Estates subdivision west of West Henderson High School. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Haywood Knolls | disruptive land uses | NC 191 widening
A new subdivision of 33 homes could go up on Haywood Road just west of West Henderson High School if the Henderson County Board of Commissioners OKs a rezoning application. Read Story »
Tags: West Henderson High School | land-use planning | Development | Haywood Knolls
Tags: Mills River Town Board | land-use planning | Development | disruptive land uses
Eighteen years ago, when Walmart announced its move from the Eastridge Crossing shopping center to the new Highland Square, the Hendersonville City Council held two different public meetings to discuss the look of the discount giant’s new store. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | retail | Wal-Mart | Walmart | gateway corridors | sign regulations
We’ve taken a deep dive this week into our county’s history of nimbyism — the efforts to block developments that residents perceive as harmful. Read Story »
When he started his unlikely fight against a gigantic project to build 14 dams on tributaries of the French Broad River, Jere Brittain knew the odds were stacked against him. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | disruptive land uses | Zoning | nimby nation
Confronted by repeated protests over housing developments and road improvements, the Board of Commissioners may call a timeout on growth. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Henderson County Commissioner Grady Hawkins | disruptive land uses | nimby nation
Tags: Etowah | land-use planning | John Turchin
Landowners are looking at other options after the Hendersonville City Council unanimously rejected a land-use change needed for a 129-unit senior living development on U.S. 64 between Hendersonville and Laurel Park. Read Story »
Tags: Laurel Park | Hendersonville City Council | land-use planning | Zoning
The Henderson County Planning Board is plunging into a broad review of potentially disruptive land uses in residential zones after neighbors raised concerns about an event barn in an R-2 zone. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Henderson County planning | Zoning | event barn
You won't want to miss this week’s Hendersonville Lightning. Read Story »
Tags: History | Oakdale Cemetery | land-use planning | Thomas Wolfe | event barn | Wolfe Angel
Tags: land-use planning | Mud Creek | pollution | hazardous waste | Mud Creek dump
Thirty residents urged the Henderson County Board of Commissioners on Monday to revoke a permit that a county zoning board issued for an event barn in a residential zone off N.C. 191. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning
The fight may not over yet even though a North Carolina appeals court has upheld a Henderson County Zoning Board of Adjustment decision that granted a permit for couple to rent their residential-zoned property for weddings, receptions, birthday parties and other gatherings. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning
A draft plan designed to guide land-use policy in East Flat Rock over the next 15 years is now available for public review and will be the subject of a public input opportunity from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, the East Flat Rock Community Plan Advisory Committee and Henderson County Planning Department announced. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | East Flat Rock
There will be much caterwauling at the Hendersonville City Council meeting next week when a developer appears to ask for annexation and a zoning permit for an 84-room Fairfield Inn & Suites on Upward Road. Read Story »
Tags: Upward Road widening | land-use planning | Development | Upward Road development
Tags: Laurel Park | land-use planning
What might have seemed on the surface like a benign request — asking the county’s permission to hold weddings and birthday parties in a barn — has turned into a lawsuit that has pitted neighbor against neighbor in Cimarron Forest. Read Story »
Siding with a developer over residents opposed to the buildout of Towne Place, the Hendersonville Planning Board recommended a zoning code change that would allow construction of the final four residential units in a vacant corner of the 9.6-acre development on Greenville Highway. Read Story »
If Bob Spitzen pulls off a miraculous upset to become the mayor of Flat Rock, the Village Council would face a thorny question. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock | Flat Rock Village Council | land-use planning | Bob Staton | 2015 municipal elections | Bob Spitzen
Tags: land-use planning | Southern Appalachian culture | ridgeline development
MILLS RIVER — Taking a tentative step toward higher density housing, the Mills River Town Board last week looked at a “middle ground” land-use proposal that would allow developments of quarter-acre lots for the first time. Read Story »
Tags: housing | land-use planning | affordable housing
By dropping out of the Land of Sky Regional Council, Henderson County would force other jurisdictions to subsidize services the council must by law provide to towns and counties, the regional planning agency's director said. Read Story »
EAST FLAT ROCK — Henderson County planners are inviting residents, business owners and homeowners in East Flat Rock to participate in the community planning process for the area. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Henderson County planning | East Flat Rock
The Hendersonville City Council unanimously shot down a zoning request that would have allowed higher density housing on Ninth Avenue near Oak Street, siding with homeowners who opposed more intense development on the residential street. Read Story »
Ninth Avenue shows all the signs of an area in transition. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville Planning Board | land-use planning | Wingate University | Wingate-Pardee-BRCC campus
FLAT ROCK — Village of Flat Rock officials and park volunteers made a short presentation about the new Park at Flat Rock and answered questions from judges on a two-day visit to see if the community measures up to national beauty standards. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | America In Bloom
Developers and a hotel company on Wednesday announced a 1,400-acre equestrian resort in Tryon that will include 500 stables, five riding arenas, miles of horseback riding trails, a hotel, sports center and other amenties. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Development | Tryon Equestrian Partners
Henderson County residents with an abandoned manufactured home on their property are invited to apply for a grant to have the home removed. Read Story »
Tags: housing | land-use planning
Declaring that "the economic environment for new investment is awakening," developers plan to resurrect an Upward Road-I-26 interchange project that will start with a Bojangles and could include a hotel, one other restaurant and retail shops. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Upward Road widening | land-use planning
Better customer service, bigger signs, a long-range plan for water service and consistency in inspections are on the docket for a new committee advising the Hendersonville City Council on how to get business-friendly. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Hendersonville Business Advisory Committee
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners has a good record in helping to create jobs. Next week, the board will get a chance to do something for the people that work those jobs. Read Story »
Tags: housing | Housing Assistance Corp. | land-use planning
Advocates of affordable housing believed they had found an ideal site and chosen a well-designed attractive development that would provide apartments for 64 families. Read Story »
Tags: housing | Housing Assistance Corp. | land-use planning
The Hendersonville City Council on Thursday appointed two new members to the city Planning Board, filling vacancies created by the resignations of Jeff Collis and Fred Dutcher. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Hendersonville Planning Board | land-use planning
The Hendersonville City Council has two Planning Board appointments to make after the resignation of Jeff Collis and Fred Dutcher. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | land-use planning | Hendersonville City Councilman Jeff Collis
TUXEDO — If everything falls into place, residents of southern Henderson County could be getting a Dollar General store. Read Story »
Tags: land-use planning | Tuxedo | retail | Tuxedo Community Park | Henderson County Commissioner Tommy Thompson
FLAT ROCK — Like it or not, Stonebridge neighbors are powerless to stop a homeowner from renting a cottage to vacationers. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock | real estate | Flat Rock Village Council | land-use planning
Tags: Mills River | Mills River Town Board | land-use planning | Jaime Laughter | Pat Christie
MILLS RIVER — State DOT engineers have responded quickly to a severe flooding situation that Mills River residents blamed on a nursing home construction site, a Mills River town councilman says. Read Story »
Tags: Mills River | NCDOT | Mills River Town Board | land-use planning
At the inaugural meeting of Henderson County's Regulation Review Advisory Committee, board members suggested they needed to get hold of the complaint file. Read Story »
Tags: Henderson County Commissioners | land-use planning | Henderson County planning
A landowner asked the Henderson County Board of Commissioners on April 1 to change the zoning of his 1.7-acre vacant tract on U.S. 64 in Horse Shoe to allow a Dollar General store. Read Story »
A 13-member committee appointed to identify county regulations that impede business growth and job creation held its organizational meeting Thursday night, hearing mostly pro-business comments in introductory remarks by the members in attendance. Read Story »
Tags: Henderson County Commissioners | land-use planning | Henderson County planning | Regulation Review Advisory Committee
On sabbatical last summer, David Weintraub took stock of his 33 years of work — as a community organizer (as he calls it without irony), civil rights activist, filmmaker and environmental advocate. Read Story »
Tags: ECO | David Weintraub | land-use planning | Development | Rachel Hodge
The Hendersonville Planning Board turned down a request to change city land-use regulations to allow animal boarding in a mixed-use zoning district. Read Story »