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Planning Board Regular Meeting

Town of Fuquay-Varina · Planning Board
Monday, February 16, 2026

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What's on this agenda

The planning board recommended rezoning 220 W Academy Street so the local food pantry can build its own home. The pantry currently rents space at that address and has bought the property.

The board also elected a vice-chair for 2026 and received word that a separate rezoning on Purfoy Road had been withdrawn by the petitioner.

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Meeting recap

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

All seven members attended and every vote carried without dissent.

The 220 W Academy Street hearing drew two speakers in favor and none against. The applicant's surveyor explained that the food pantry operates from rented space at that location and wants to construct its own building on the newly purchased property. A pantry volunteer said neighbors who contribute were in the room in support and that the location matters to how the pantry runs. The board asked no questions and had no discussion.

Staff recommended approval on four grounds: the request matches the Downtown classification in the 2040 Community Vision Land Use Plan, it supports the plan's policies on infill development inside town limits and on growing downtown, and the offered conditions fit the site's development potential. The board recommended approval 7-0 and sent it to the commissioners, who adopted it on March 9.

A rezoning at 7601 Purfoy Road for New Horizon Academy, which would have moved 1.85 acres from residential agricultural to corridor commercial conditional zoning, was withdrawn by the petitioner with nothing left to consider. Jeff Stevens was elected vice-chair through December 2026, and the board met the new assistant planning director, who came from the Town of Morrisville. The meeting adjourned at 6:07 pm.

How the votes went

The minutes, the rezoning recommendation and adjournment each passed 7-0. The vice-chair election passed 6-0.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

2 members of the public spoke.

  1. A surveyor appearing for the applicant said the rezoning would let the food pantry, which rents space at the same address, build its own building on the property it has bought.
  2. A food pantry volunteer spoke in support, saying contributing neighbors were present and the location matters to the pantry's operations.

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

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (6)

Minutes approval · 1Appointment · 1Other · 1Public hearing · 1Presentation · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 2.A Approval of the Minutes from the January 13, 2026 Planning Board Meeting
    Minutes approval
    Routine approval of minutes from the prior meeting.
  2. 3.A Election of Planning Board Vice-Chair 2026
    Appointment Appointments and personnelElections and districts
    Board elects its vice-chair for 2026.
  3. 3.B Zoning Map Amendment - Penny Allen, New Horizon Academy - 7601 Purfoy Road (Item to Be Tabled)
    Other Rezoning
    Rezoning request REZ-2025-13 for 7601 Purfoy Road, PIN 0666795819, carried over and expected to be tabled again.
    • 7601 Purfoy Rd · Purfoy Development LLC · 1.9 acres · assessed $364,458
    • 7601 Purfoy Rd · Purfoy Development LLC · 1.9 acres · assessed $364,458
  4. 4.A Zoning Map Amendment - Mauldin-Watkins Surveying, PA - 220 W Academy Street
    Public hearing Health and human servicesRezoning
    Public hearing on REZ-2025-16, a zoning map amendment for 220 W Academy Street, PIN 0656879758.
    • 220 W Academy St · no matching parcel on file
    • 220 W Academy St · Fuquay-Varina Emergency Food Pantry · 0.99 acres · assessed $301,868
  5. 5.A Introduction of New Staff - Eliot Ward, Assistant Planning Director
    Presentation
    Introduction of the town's new Assistant Planning Director.
  6. 6.A Planning Staff Report
    Staff or committee report
    Routine update from planning staff.

Agenda changes

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