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Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting

Town of Fuquay-Varina · Board of Adjustment
Monday, July 13, 2026

Regular meeting Land conversion and large developmentBroadband and technologyEthics and transparencyHealth and human services

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What was decided

  1. Approved 4.ASpecial Use Permit Petition - 4321 Hilltop Needmore Rd - Lina P. Bernal & David E. Sepulveda (BOA-SUP-2026-04) Approved 6-0 on all four findings and on the permit

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What's on this agenda

Two special use permit petitions on Hilltop Needmore Road were scheduled, though the agenda marks the second, from a communications tower company, to be tabled. That leaves one contested item and a set of by-law amendments for the board itself.

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Meeting recap

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

The board let a family childcare home on Hilltop Needmore Road grow from eight children to ten, approving the permit 6-0 after voting separately on each of the four findings of fact. Lina Bernal told the board she has run a four-star-rated Spanish immersion program at the house for six and a half years, and that the state now allows licensed family childcare homes to take ten children where the requirements are met. She said no building work is needed, that the ratio stays at one teacher to ten, and that staggered drop-off and pick-up keeps traffic off the road. The license is held by her mother, Rosa E. Nino, who lives at the property.

The cell tower case next door at 4813 Hilltop Needmore Road went over to August at the petitioner's request, its lawyers wanting more documentation. The board opened the hearing, and the town attorney stopped the vice chair from closing it, saying it has to stay open until the next meeting. It was tabled 6-0.

The board also recommended amending its own by-laws to move its regular start time from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m., effective with the August meeting, which it had directed staff to prepare in June after looking at when peer boards meet. The meeting ended at 7:46 p.m.

How the votes went

Every vote was 6-0 with two members absent. The June 8 minutes, each of the four findings of fact on BOA-SUP-2026-04, the permit itself on a motion by Michelle Currin seconded by Thomas Gallo, the tabling of BOA-SUP-2026-05 on a motion by Chris Goins seconded by Currin, and the by-laws amendment on a motion by Currin seconded by Goins.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

This was a quasi-judicial hearing. The minutes record no testimony beyond the petitioner's own.

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Agenda items (9)

Procedural · 4Public hearing · 2Minutes approval · 1Ordinance · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2.A Approval of the Minutes from the June 8, 2026, Board of Adjustment Meeting
    Minutes approval
    Approval of the June 8, 2026 board of adjustment minutes.
  3. 3 Items Tabled from Previous Meeting
    Procedural
    No items were carried over from the previous meeting.
  4. 4.A Special Use Permit Petition - 4321 Hilltop Needmore Rd - Lina P. Bernal & David E. Sepulveda (BOA-SUP-2026-04)
    Public hearing Health and human servicesLand conversion and large development
    A special use permit to expand a family childcare home at 4321 Hilltop Needmore Road from six children under a 2019 home occupation permit to ten. The 0.87-acre site is in the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction, zoned Residential Agricultural, with Hilltop Needmore Town Park and Preserve to the north. State child development rules now allow licensed family childcare homes to serve up to ten.
    Approved 6-0 on all four findings and on the permit
  5. 4.B Special Use Permit Petition - 4813 Hilltop Needmore Rd - Alpha Towers PropCo III, LLC (BOA-SUP-2026-05)
    Public hearing Broadband and technologyLand conversion and large development
    Special Use Permit petition for a site consistent with a wireless communications tower use, marked on the agenda to be tabled rather than decided.
    Marked on the agenda to be tabled
  6. 5.A Fuquay-Varina Board of Adjustment By-Laws Amendment
    Ordinance Ethics and transparency
    An amendment to Section VII.B of the board's by-laws moving its regular meeting start from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. The board voted in June to have staff prepare it, after reviewing when peer boards meet.
    Recommended for approval 6-0, effective with the August 2026 meeting
  7. 6 Old Business
    Procedural
  8. 7 Administrative Reports
    Staff or committee report
  9. 8 Adjourn
    Procedural

Agenda changes

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