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A rezoning request that would have cleared the way for housing on a portion of the former Carolina Shores Golf & Country Club was denied this week.
But property owner Philippe Bureau says he is not deterred, and still plans to sell the property to a developer who intends to create a residential development under the existing zoning.
The Carolina Shores Board of Commissioners voted 3-1 on Monday, Feb. 9 to deny a request to rezone the property for a proposed redevelopment that would include 119 homes, extensive stormwater facilitation and other amenities.
Bureau said his next proposal will feature slightly fewer houses but will take up a larger percentage of the approximate 150-acre property, and won’t have the same amount of stormwater mitigation.
The requested rezoning would have changed the land from a Conservation Recreation District (CRD) to Planned Residential District (PRD). Housing is still conditionally allowed under the CRD.
“We’re certainly disappointed by the vote,” Bureau said. “We thought we had given them a very good plan that would have assisted the town. They chose not to accept our rezoning. So by right we have the ability to develop our one-acre lots and we’ll do that moving forward.”
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