The Statesville Planning Board on Tuesday approved the site plans for a retail center to be built on Turnersburg Highway near Home Depot.
A total of four units will be built for a total of about 6,700 square feet of interior space. Three of the units have been pre-leased and will be home to a pet store, an office supply store and an apparel store, according to Shawn McCleskey with the development group RealtyLink out of Greenville, S.C.
McCleskey told the board that RealtyLink plans to purchase the approximately 6.6 acres on which the units will be built after the company has cleared all the development hurdles associated with the build.
He may hit an impasse next week when the matter will be before the Board of Adjustment involving the façade on the back of the building, which new Statesville ordinances say must now have higher level of aesthetic appeal than in the past. McCleskey said that if the company is unable to get a variance that would allow a less ornate façade, the project would have to be to be scrapped as the additional $200,000 in costs would make it “financially unfeasible.”
The Planning Board had only a small hitch with the site plans and it involved the installation of a sidewalk that would link the units on the property.
McCleskey agreed to add the sidewalk and said it would actually enhance the property.
Board Chairman Rob Collier also asked for a sidewalk to be placed on another part of the property that ran parallel to a private drive but that plan was not agreed to. Statesville typically requires developers to install sidewalks on new builds along the roads that the projects front. But Assistant Planning Director Sherry Ashley reminded the board that this requirement does not apply to private roads.
“There is no way to require sidewalks on this site,” Ashley said. “You can ask but you can’t require.”
The approval of the site plan was the only action the Planning Board took Tuesday. The vote was 6-0 as board members William Morgan and Walt Stamey were absent.
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