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Planning Board Meeting

Chatham County · Planning Board
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 6:30 pm · Old Agriculture Building, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312

Regular meeting Land conversion and large developmentEthics and transparencyParks and recreationRezoning

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What was decided

  1. Approved IVApproval of Minutes - May 12 special and June 2 regular Approved 9-0
  2. Continued VII.1Discuss the option of a Community Bill of Rights Deferred for want of time

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What's on this agenda

Chatham County's Planning Board took two land use cases on 7 July. Lockley Holdings asked for a special use permit for a contractor's storage yard and staging area on 3.9 acres of a 10.02-acre tract at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek, heard as a quasi-judicial matter. The second was a rezoning of about 20.736 acres at 4051 Silk Hope Gum Springs Road from residential to conditional district regional business, for outdoor sports grounds and cricket fields in Hadley Township.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

The board recommended the Lockley Holdings special use permit 7-2. It then refused the cricket fields rezoning: a motion to recommend approval failed 3-6, with the chair, vice chair and four others opposed, and the board adopted a non-consistency statement 7-3 finding the request inconsistent with a location the land use plan designates as a rural node. Smith, Bell and Feher opposed that statement.

Neighbors spoke against the rezoning, several on traffic. One member remarked before the vote that residents had turned out to say why the project would harm the area and nobody, from the chamber of commerce or elsewhere, had come to say why it would help. The Community Bill of Rights discussion was pushed to a later meeting for want of time.

How the votes went

The special use permit for Lockley Holdings was recommended 7-2. A motion to recommend the Silk Hope Gum Springs Road rezoning failed 3-6. A non-consistency statement on that rezoning passed 7-3, Smith, Bell and Feher opposed. The agenda and the May 12 and June 2 minutes were approved 9-0.

From the published minutes.

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (7)

Procedural · 2Public hearing · 2Minutes approval · 1Discussion item · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. III Approval of Agenda
    Procedural
    Approved 9-0
  2. IV Approval of Minutes - May 12 special and June 2 regular
    Minutes approval
    Approved 9-0
  3. V Public Input Session
    Procedural
  4. VI.1 Special Use Permit: contractor's storage yard, 1656 Campbell Road, Bear Creek
    Public hearing Land conversion and large development
    A quasi-judicial hearing on Lockley Holdings' request for a contractor's storage yard and staging area on 3.9 acres of a 10.02-acre tract.
    Recommended for approval 7-2
    • 1656 Campbell Rd · no matching parcel on file
  5. VI.2 Rezoning: 4051 Silk Hope Gum Springs Rd, R-1 to CD-RB for outdoor sports and cricket fields
    Public hearing Land conversion and large developmentParks and recreationRezoning
    A legislative rezoning of about 20.736 acres from residential to conditional district regional business, for grounds and facilities for outdoor sports and cricket fields in Hadley Township.
    Recommendation to approve failed 3-6; a non-consistency statement passed 7-3
    • 4051 Silk Hope Gum Springs Rd · no matching parcel on file
  6. VII.1 Discuss the option of a Community Bill of Rights
    Discussion item Ethics and transparency
    Deferred for want of time
  7. IX Planning Director's Reports
    Staff or committee report

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