Commercial Real Estate

Fayetteville City Council approves annex of 10+ acres of property; approve rezoning to Heavy Industrial

By Staff Report, posted 2 years ago
Ariel view of the annexed property. Photo provided by City of Fayetteville. 

The City of Fayetteville has absorbed a new commercial property into City limits after voting to annex ten acres of land at the recent City Council Meeting on April 24. 

The Council conducted a public hearing regarding Carolina Sun Investments LLC’s petition to annex 10.00 ± acres of land, also known as the Kutoba Site, located on the northern side of I-95 at 1530 Middle River Loop into the corporate limits of the City of Fayetteville. 

Council members were given a presentation from Lauren Long from the Development Services Department highlighting the benefits for the city annexing the land. The site is currently developed but may be further developed at a later date, and following approval would require services from Fayetteville Fire and PWC. 

According to City documents, the parcel recently transferred ownership in 2018 from AOM II, LLC to Carolina Sun Investments in the same year it was subdivided from a larger tract of 33.41 acres. This resulted in the 10-acre tract that was developed as the site of Kubota of Fayetteville between 2018 and 2019 under the development review of Cumberland County. 

The site was originally zoned as a Planned Commercial District, C(P), under Cumberland County’s zoning district map, which was changed to Heavy Industrial (HI) Zoning at the start of the Council meeting under the approved Consent Agenda items. 

10-acre tract is the home of the Kubota Site.  Photo Pulled from Google Maps

Under the City’s Zoning definitions, a Heavy Industrial District “Accommodates heavy manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, processing, distribution, storage, research and development, and other industrial uses that are large-scale in nature and may have the potential for adverse environmental and visual impacts.” 

 City documents also say that the property currently is not in conformance with the development standards of the Heavy Industrial (HI) zoning district, and that all future development must conform to the design standards and a specific set of provisions apply to the existing site as well as all buildings/ structures.

No one spoke in opposition to the plan during the hearing and the motion was approved unanimously. 

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