ASHEBORO – The Asheboro City Council met Thursday, Dec. 7 to swear in incumbents Edward Burks and Charles Swiers as well as newly elected councilor Joseph Trogdon, Jr. to their seats.
Walker Moffitt was reappointed as Mayor Pro Tem with Trogdon dissenting.
“If you have a leading vote getter who’s an outsider, that’s typically the impression to me and a lot of folks that they want a change from the status quo,” Trogdon said in explanation. “For that reason, I won’t support the motion.”
The council continued with public hearings on rezoning requests.
The first was a request to rezone approximately 1/8 of an acre of property located at 306 Harrison Street from B1 to RA6 (CZ) in order to allow for a single-family residential addition.
“The addition that is proposed is on the south side of the property,” said Assistant Community Development Director John Evans. “It is for a reasonable accommodation for an accessible shower for the homeowner to meet their mobility needs.
“Typically, this would be through a variance process or the zoning ordinance does have a reasonable accommodation provision through the board of adjustment, but the issue with this property is that it has a B1 commercial zoning so in order to even be able to apply to the board of adjustment, the property would have had to be rezoned to make that application.”
The second hearing was a request to rezone just over two-thirds of an acre of property located at 4986 US Highway 220 Business North from R15 to B2 (CZ) to allow for minor motor vehicle repair.
“The applicant’s proposal is for minor motor vehicle repair only,” Evans said. “That would include repairs such as oil changes, safety inspections, tire service, work on spark plugs, batteries and things of that nature. What it doesn’t include under major repair is once the equipment goes over a certain horsepower. Examples of that would be things like auto body work or painting or some type of work that would include rebuilding engines or transmissions.”
In addition, operations would be required to take place only from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.
Following the hearings, the council approved both requests.
Finally, the council approved a $141,165 work authorization with WK Dickson for the design and bid administration of a 10-unit T-hangar located at the southern end of the Asheboro Regional Airport.
“Greensboro, PTI, Smith Reynolds and Burlington are out of hangar space, so there’s an increased demand for hangar space and we got room to build,” said City Manager John Ogburn. “And when the planes are based in Asheboro, they’re taxed in Asheboro.”
The Asheboro City Council will next meet Jan. 11.
