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Forest Hills council requests zoning revisions 'with teeth'By Rose Hooper |
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As a result of "several verbal complaints," Village of Forest Hills council members recommended their planning board consider changes to the municipality's zoning ordinance.
One of the recommendations proposed at the council's Feb. 3 meeting called for all R-4 rural residential property to be rezoned as R-1 residential. In its zoning ordinance adopted last year, an R-4 designation was provided to include multi-family units not to exceed 10 bedrooms per acre. In R-1 districts, residences must be single-family dwellings. The possibility of more apartment complexes at The Summit prompted this action, said board member Dick Iobst. An additional building of eight bedrooms, which has already been permitted, will be excluded from the rezoning. Other amendments call for rental property to have a marked, paved parking area for each tenant and for rental units to be "kept clean of litter." Another recommendation requires renters to sign leases. If they are students, the lease must be co-signed by their parents. Council members further request "no parking" along North Country Club Drive between the intersection with N.C. 107 to the University Motel. An additional amendment suggests fines for anyone convicted of disturbing the peace between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. The council asks the planning board to consider monetary penalties for non-compliance beginning at $100 per day for the first citation, increasing in $25 increments for each additional citation. "All of these amendments have teeth in them," said board member Jim Wallace, who asked the planning board to submit its response by the May council meeting. |
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