Rezoning denied by Hampton City Council

Requests to rezone an exceptionally large portion of county property for which the owners are seeking annexation were denied by the Hampton City Council at its Feb. 11 regular meeting.

The applicants requested rezoning from RA (residential-agricultural) in unincorporated Henry County to R-3 (single-family residential), along with an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan from a Rural Residential to a Low Density Residential designation, for a 201-acre site on Floyd Road as well as two tracts on South Hampton Road totaling 43 acres.

In each of these cases, the proposed ordinances failed to pass a first reading.

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