The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners Tuesday denied two controversial rezoning proposals, each of which had drawn fire from neighboring residents who contended the proposals didn’t fit in with the county’s future land use plans.
In one case, commissioners turned down Blue Ridge Mountain Recovery Center’s request to rezone from agricultural to office institutional for expansion of its residential drug treatment center off Bailey Road by about two dozen allowed patients. Neighbors had raised noise and security concerns.
The commission also unanimously rejected Ridgeline Land Planning Inc’s attempt to have almost 43 acres rezoned from one form of residential to another, as well as from neighborhood commercial to allow for a single-family subdivision. Neighbors and at least one commissioner contended the proposed subdivision would be too dense a use for the area off Bailey Road.
The Cherokee County Planning Commission had earlier recommended denial of both.
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