Despite the all out efforts of a few citizens to stop the rezoning for a shopping center on Castleberry Road, the measure passed in Thursday's Board of Commissioners meeting by a vote of 3-2. Commissioners Dave Richard and Brian Tam cast the dissenting votes...
Despite the all out efforts of a few citizens to stop the rezoning for a shopping center on Castleberry Road, the measure passed in Thursday's Board of Commissioners meeting by a vote of 3-2. Commissioners Dave Richard and Brian Tam cast the dissenting votes.
The rezoning will clear the way for a shopping center on Castleberry, near the new Whitlock Elementary School. The measure was originally denied, but recently brought back before the board for reconsideration and the denial was rescinded on April 3rd.
Commissioner Charles Laughinghouse had come under fire for his role in the rezoning approval, with local citizens asserting that the safety of the elementary school children traveling on Castleberry Road would be compromised with this shopping center. Forsyth county engineering director John Cunard confirmed in the meeting that the road work the developer promised to do as a condition of this rezoning, would actually accelerate the safety improvements that were planned for this stretch of Castleberry by several years.
"The zoning completely conforms to the Unified Development Code, as well as the Master Land Use Plan, and it brings developer funded road improvements years ahead of the county's ability to do so" Commissioner Laughinghouse said.
