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Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting

Town of Fuquay-Varina · Board of Adjustment
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

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What's on this agenda

The board approved a special use permit letting an in-home daycare on Ivey Grove Court expand, 6-0, with all four findings of fact carried unanimously. Nobody appeared to object, though the town had received a letter and an email opposing it, both given to members.

The meeting also swore in new members and elected a vice-chair for the year. Staff said no February applications had been filed, so the next scheduled meeting would be given over to annual training.

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Meeting recap

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

The petitioner holds a home occupation permit issued in August 2024 for up to five children and asked to move to a large in-home daycare of up to ten, counting her own children, on a quarter-acre lot in the Amber Ridge subdivision.

Parking took most of the discussion and the board talked itself into comfort. The chair noted the lot sits on a corner near a cul-de-sac, which gives parents room to turn around and manage drop-off. A member observed that with only four driveway spaces, a parent might already need the street under the current approval, so raising the number of children would not create a new problem. Another pointed out that any resident's visitor or delivery driver parks briefly on the street and that short-term parking is permitted. Hours run from 7 am at the earliest to 6 pm at the latest, which members took as answering any noise concern.

The fourth finding was the one a member insisted on discussing before any motion. She said she had a real concern about expanding a business use inside a tightly compacted residential neighbourhood, and questioned whether what she understood as a medium-sized business conforms to the town's plan of development. Others answered that daycare is an approved use in a residential district, that the use is already permitted at a smaller scale, and, from a member who has lived in several states, that home daycares are widely accepted rather than out of bounds. The homeowners association's support was what she cited when she then moved the finding herself.

All four findings and the permit passed 6-0. The board elected a vice-chair through December 2026 and adjourned at 7:43 pm.

How the votes went

The December minutes, all four findings of fact, the permit and adjournment each passed 6-0. The vice-chair election passed 5-0.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

Nobody appeared to speak for or against. The town had received one letter and one email opposing the permit, and both were provided to board members.

Read from the records the government published after the meeting. Members of the public are private residents and are not named or indexed.

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Agenda items (12)

Procedural · 7Appointment · 2Minutes approval · 1Public hearing · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2 Approval of Minutes
    Procedural
  3. 2.A Approval of the Minutes from the December 8, 2025, Board of Adjustment Meeting
    Minutes approval
    Approval of the December 8, 2025 minutes, with no corrections requested.
  4. 3 Items Tabled from Previous Meeting
    Procedural
    No items were carried over.
  5. 4 Public Hearings
    Procedural
  6. 4.A Special Use Permit Petition - 1300 Ivey Grove Ct - Kateryna Ripa - PIN 0666610140 - BOA-SUP-2025-02
    Public hearing Health and human services
    Quasi-judicial hearing on a special use permit petition by Kateryna Ripa for the property at 1300 Ivey Grove Ct.
  7. 5 New Business
    Procedural
  8. 5.A Administration of the Board of Adjustment Oath of Office & Introduction of New Board of Adjustment Members
    Appointment Appointments and personnel
    Administers the oath of office to and introduces new board of adjustment members.
  9. 5.B Election of Board of Adjustment Vice-Chair 2026
    Appointment Appointments and personnelElections and districts
    Elects a vice-chair for a term running through December 2026.
  10. 6 Old Business
    Procedural
  11. 7 Administrative Reports
    Staff or committee report
    Staff said no applications had been filed for February, so the regularly scheduled February 9 meeting would be used for the board's annual training.
  12. 8 Adjourn
    Procedural
    Adjourned at 7:43 pm.

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