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REZ 05-26 — Commercial use to achieve zoning consistency with adjacent nail salon property; no specific development plan proposed at this time in Cornelius, NC

Applicant seeks to rezone a 0.51-acre parcel from Neighborhood Residential (NR) to Highway Commercial (HC) to align zoning with an adjacent nail salon property already zoned HC. Staff recommended denial in favor of Neighborhood Mixed Use (NMX) zoning, citing the town's future land use plan, proximity to JV Washam Elementary School, and concerns that HC zoning would permit higher-intensity auto-oriented uses inconsistent with the planned character of the Westmoreland Road corridor. The Planning Board voted 8-0 to deny the rezoning and approved a Consistency Statement finding the proposed HC rezoning unreasonable and inconsistent with the adopted Land Use Plan.

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Case history

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• First seen — 2026-08-09: First seen on a Planning Board agenda · Planning Board
• Staff recommendation — 2026-07-13: Staff recommendation: approve with conditions · Planning Board
• Continued — 2026-09-14: Continued from 2026-07-13 to 2026-09-14 · Planning Board
• Staff recommendation — 2026-09-14: Staff recommendation: deny · Planning Board

Also on the 2026-09-14 Cornelius agenda

• REZ 02-26 — 40-room inn, 7 rental cottages, and 4,500-square-foot spa and clubhouse (47 total rentable rooms)

Other Cornelius rezoning cases

• REZ 04-26 — Small-scale vocational school inside one commercial suite of existing mixed-use building
• REZ 02-25 — Rezoning
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• VAR 03-26 — Variance