Asheboro City Council - Randolph Record

19 Jul

Asheboro paves way for increased development

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalGovernmentAsheboro City Council, council meeting

ASHEBORO — The City of Asheboro Council met Thursday, July 13, with several property matters on the agenda. The council started out by continuing two legislative hearings from the prior month. The first was for a rezoning request for property located at the intersection of Old Cox Road and Old Humble Mill Road from Randolph County zoning to R15 (CZ) in order to allow a residential and commercial planned unit development. “The request is for a planned use unit development that consists of single-family detached, single-family attached, and initially there was a commercial element proposed with the initial application, but…

09 Jul

Ten file on first day for fall elections

Bob SuttonNewsAsheboro City Council, Asheboro City Schools, Randleman city council, randolph county, Randolph County Board of Elections, Town of Liberty

ASHEBORO – Ten Randolph County residents filed to run for office during the first five hours of filing. Three of those are seeking to retain spots on the City of Asheboro’s city council. Filing opened at noon Friday and continues through noon July 21. Incumbents Eddie Burks, Jane Hughes Redding and Charles Swiers signed up for the candidate list for Asheboro’s city council. Gidget Kidd and Ryan Patton are bidding to keep their seats on the Asheboro City Schools board of education. For Randleman’s city council, first-day filers were Mike Dawkins (at-large), Steve Grooms Jr. (Ward 1) and Lee Hinson…

21 Jun

Updated Asheboro ordinance to allow residential developments to request special intensity allocations within Watershed Balance area

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalNewsAsheboro City Council, legislative hearings

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met Thursday, June 8, with multiple legislative hearings regarding land use as well as multiple change orders on existing capital projects. The council began the meeting with four legislative hearings on the agenda. The first hearing was for a request to amend Chapter 5 - Use Regulations and Chapter 10 - Watershed Protection Regulations of the Asheboro Zoning Ordinance to allow residential developments to request a Special Intensity Allocation within the Watershed Balance Area. “This is a request to amend the city’s code of ordinances, specifically the ones including the watershed protection ordinance, to…

15 Mar

Asheboro clears way for new affordable housing development

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalNewsaffordable housing, Asheboro City Council, historical site, McCrary Hosiery Mill, Parks Hosiery Mill, rezoning

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met Thursday, March 9, with multiple property and funding matters on the agenda. The council held legislative hearings for two rezoning applications for property located at 853 East Salisbury Street and 133 Southway Road. The first application was for a rezoning from OA6 to OA6 (CZ) “This is an application filed by Community Housing Partners for property identified as 853 East Salisbury Street,” said Community Development Director Trevor Nuttall. “It includes four separate county parcels, approximately five and a half acres. This application is to take the property from an existing high-density office and…

11 Jan

Asheboro City Council updates subdivision review/approval regulations

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalGovernmentapproval, Asheboro City Council, regulations, subdivision review

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro city council met Thursday with a handful of public hearings on the agenda. The council approved an amendment to the Zoo City Social District to slightly expand the map and to also make certain clarifications in specific regulations. “What we are doing here is tweaking the boundaries of the social district just slightly to include possibly as many as four new businesses that want to be included in the social district,” said Mayor David Smith. “We are just trying to get our ordinance in line with what the state expects in addition to adding just a…

14 Dec

Asheboro council gives approval for cancer center

Ryan HenkelBusinessAsheboro City Council, Cone Health

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met Thursday, with the primary focus of the agenda being on the petition by Cone Health for a new cancer center. The council gave the approval to delegate a plan for the management and maintenance of the Zoo City Social District to Asheboro Downtown, Inc. The plan will include potential expansion targets and areas and will help to set uniform standards for signage. It will ultimately have to be brought before the council for final approval. The council then held a public hearing for an annexation petition by Cone Health for an excess of…

16 Nov

Sidewalks to be constructed on stretches of US 64

Ryan HenkelNewsAsheboro City Council, Social Alcohol District

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met this past Thursday, where they approved the expansion of the Social Alcohol District and voted on multiple property matters. The council received a request from Little River, LLC. to extend the Social Alcohol District south to include the property. After hearing the request, the council authorized the staff to draft a proposal in order to properly include the requesting property in the district, essentially approving the extension of the Social District boundary south to include 130 Church Street. “They are an alcohol permit holder, and they were kind of disappointed they were not…

10 Aug

Asheboro Council to engage with Piedmont Triad Regional Council for support on two projects

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalGovernmentAsheboro City Council, Piedmont Triad Regional Council

ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met Thursday and authorized engagement with the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, the annexation of property into city limits, and the approval of a contract for turf on the Zoo City Sportsplex. The council approved authorization to engage the Piedmont Triad Regional Council for two different projects. The first project is for grant services related to the construction of the David and Pauline Jarrell Center City Garden. “At the last council meeting, I informed the council of our intention to work with the Regional Council to pursue grant funds for the construction of the…

15 Jun

Asheboro residents could see increase in city services bills

Ryan HenkelNewsAsheboro City Council, budget

ASHEBORO — The City of Asheboro Council met last Thursday with the proposed 2022-23 fiscal year budget at the top of the agenda. The proposed 2022-23 budget is $61,207,222 of which $42,263,842 is the general fund and $18,493,380 is the water and sewer fund. City Manager John Ogburn called the budget adjustments “the bare minimum” needed to attract and keep employees and forecasted wages would “most likely need to be adjust even higher in the near future” in his memo to the city council ahead of the budget meetings. While the new budget recommends no increase in city property taxes,…

13 Apr

City council hears public comments on development, alcohol

Ryan HenkelGovernmentalcohol, Asheboro, Asheboro City Council

ASHEBORO — The City of Asheboro Council met last Thursday with hearings for two residential projects and the presentation of the final report on the city’s sewer system on the agenda. While no decision is imminent, the topic of allowing alcoholic beverages to be possessed outside of restaurants and bars was also discussed in the public comments. Freese and Nichols, Inc. presented their final report and findings for the city’s sanitary sewer collection system before the council. The engineering firm had been commissioned to assess the wastewater collection system and see where the sanitary overflow problem areas were and how…