Redevelopment of RV park denied
Commissioners reject rezoning request for town homes
BY ANDREW MACKIE
RECORD STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
NEWTON - A recreational vehicle park won’t be turned into town homes.
Not in the near future, at least.
The Catawba County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously against a rezoning Monday night that would have allowed a 120-unit development on a 23-acre property now occupied by the Lake Hickory RV resort. Hurshel Teague owns the property, which he had planned to sell to Morganton-based 5-Star Land Development.
A group of about 80 people, many of them with leased spaces in the RV resort, opposed the rezoning.
About a dozen spoke against the rezoning.
Commissioners expressed concern about the private road, Monford Drive, leading to the property. They felt it could not handle what could be increased traffic with the town homes development.
The leasees celebrated the victory.
“Just because it’s an RV resort, we’re not bad people,” said Larry Deal, who began leasing a space about a year ago. “It’s a family-oriented place.”
John Ring drives from Winston-Salem with his wife to spend many weekends at the resort. He wants the leasees to have a chance to buy the property before it’s turned into something else.
“Every American has a right to sell his property,” he said. “We just want the opportunity to keep it an RV park. There is something about that community. We want to keep it that way.”
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Redevelopment of RV park denied
Redevelopment of RV park denied
Commissioners reject rezoning request for town homes
BY ANDREW MACKIE
RECORD STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
NEWTON - A recreational vehicle park won’t be turned into town homes.
Not in the near future, at least.
The Catawba County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously against a rezoning Monday night that would have allowed a 120-unit development on a 23-acre property now occupied by the Lake Hickory RV resort. Hurshel Teague owns the property, which he had planned to sell to Morganton-based 5-Star Land Development.
A group of about 80 people, many of them with leased spaces in the RV resort, opposed the rezoning.
About a dozen spoke against the rezoning.
Commissioners expressed concern about the private road, Monford Drive, leading to the property. They felt it could not handle what could be increased traffic with the town homes development.
The leasees celebrated the victory.
“Just because it’s an RV resort, we’re not bad people,” said Larry Deal, who began leasing a space about a year ago. “It’s a family-oriented place.”
John Ring drives from Winston-Salem with his wife to spend many weekends at the resort. He wants the leasees to have a chance to buy the property before it’s turned into something else.
“Every American has a right to sell his property,” he said. “We just want the opportunity to keep it an RV park. There is something about that community. We want to keep it that way.”
Commissioners reject rezoning request for town homes
BY ANDREW MACKIE
RECORD STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
NEWTON - A recreational vehicle park won’t be turned into town homes.
Not in the near future, at least.
The Catawba County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously against a rezoning Monday night that would have allowed a 120-unit development on a 23-acre property now occupied by the Lake Hickory RV resort. Hurshel Teague owns the property, which he had planned to sell to Morganton-based 5-Star Land Development.
A group of about 80 people, many of them with leased spaces in the RV resort, opposed the rezoning.
About a dozen spoke against the rezoning.
Commissioners expressed concern about the private road, Monford Drive, leading to the property. They felt it could not handle what could be increased traffic with the town homes development.
The leasees celebrated the victory.
“Just because it’s an RV resort, we’re not bad people,” said Larry Deal, who began leasing a space about a year ago. “It’s a family-oriented place.”
John Ring drives from Winston-Salem with his wife to spend many weekends at the resort. He wants the leasees to have a chance to buy the property before it’s turned into something else.
“Every American has a right to sell his property,” he said. “We just want the opportunity to keep it an RV park. There is something about that community. We want to keep it that way.”
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