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Planning Board Regular Meeting

Town of Fuquay-Varina · Planning Board
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Regular meeting Appointments and personnelRezoningElections and districtsHousing and affordabilitySubdivision and site plansWater and sewer

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What's on this agenda

With the chair absent and no vice chair yet elected, the board swore in two new members and appointed an interim chair before it could take up any business. The vice chair election itself was pushed to the next meeting.

It then recommended two rezonings. One moves 8.51 acres on Johnson Pond Road toward medium density residential, the other lets an insurance business and a basement antique shop occupy a building on N Main Street that its current zoning would not allow.

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Meeting recap

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

The Johnson Pond Road case turned on a piece of buried history. The applicant's engineer explained that the lots around the property are somewhat smaller and, while still zoned residential agricultural, are not on septic systems, because a sewer line was installed there years ago by the utility. The project would extend sewer and water to this site as well, which he said is what distinguishes it from its neighbours and supports the request for medium density zoning. He told the board there was nothing else unusual about it. Staff cited the single-family neighbourhood classification in the 2040 land use plan and its policy on establishing a discernible neighbourhood structure. Recommended 7-0. The preliminary plat for 17 lots on the same land came back to the board in April.

The N Main Street case was simpler. The applicants want to move their insurance business into the building and run an antique shop in the basement, and the existing office and institutional zoning does not permit the retail use. That, the surveyor said, was the whole reason for the request. Nobody spoke against either rezoning. Recommended 7-0.

The flag lot on Chambers Road drew the only board discussion of the night, on whether the property had been a flag lot before and how the new configuration would work. Recommended 7-0.

How the votes went

The interim chair appointment passed 6-0, taken before the new members were seated for voting. Everything after it passed 7-0: tabling the vice chair election, the December minutes, both rezoning recommendations and the flag lot.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

2 members of the public spoke.

  1. An engineer for the Johnson Pond Road applicant explained that neighbouring lots are already on sewer rather than septic, and that this project would extend sewer and water to the site.
  2. A surveyor for the N Main Street applicant said the owners want to relocate an insurance business into the building and run an antique shop in the basement, a retail use the current zoning does not allow.

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 (7)

Public hearing · 2Appointment · 2Minutes approval · 1Other · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 2.A Approval of the Minutes from the December 15, 2025, Planning Board Meeting
    Minutes approval
    Routine approval of minutes from the board's previous meeting.
  2. 4.A Zoning Map Amendment - Blake Massengill, Massengill Design Build - 5800 Johnson Pond Road - PIN 0678425427 - REZ-2025-09
    Public hearing Housing and affordabilityRezoningWater and sewer
    Public hearing on a zoning map amendment requested by Massengill Design Build for a parcel at 5800 Johnson Pond Road.
  3. 4.B Zoning Map Amendment - Mauldin-Watkins Surveying, PA - 2228 N Main Street - PIN 0677556603 - REZ-2025-15
    Public hearing Rezoning
    Public hearing on a zoning map amendment requested by Mauldin-Watkins Surveying for a parcel at 2228 N Main Street.
  4. 5.A Administration of the Planning Board Oath of Office & Introduction of New Planning Board Members
    Appointment Appointments and personnel
    New Planning Board members are sworn in and introduced.
  5. 5.B Election of Planning Board Vice-Chair 2026
    Appointment Appointments and personnelElections and districts
    The board elects its vice-chair for 2026.
  6. 5.C Minor Subdivision Plat - Flag Lot - Residential Land Services - 10117 Chambers Road - SUB-MN-2025-15
    Other Subdivision and site plans
    Review of a minor subdivision plat creating a flag lot at 10117 Chambers Road.
    • 10117 Chambers Rd · Walter, Jeanne M Walter, James · 4.3 acres · assessed $518,298
  7. 6.A Planning Staff Report
    Staff or committee report
    Routine staff report to the board.

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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