A pair of age-targeted housing projects won approval from the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
On a 4-1 vote, commissioners approved a plan to rezone roughly 57 acres near Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Brannon Road from agricultural and business district to master planned district for 75 residential lots and 218 attached units and commercial buildings. Two-thirds of the project is planned as age-restricted.
District 3 commissioner Todd Levent (in whose district the plan lies) tacked on several conditions, including that no less than 20 percent of the development be devoted to green space and that no more than ten percent of the residential units can be rented.
The planning commission voted to recommend denial for the rezoning in November after concerns about development of the commercial part of the mixed-use plan.
Also last week, commissioners signed off on a plan by Active Senior Concepts LLC to build a senior housing facility with a list of variances in commission District 2 as an add-on to an existing project, voting to issue a conditional use permit.
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