Garner, NC — rezoning & P&Z cases
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73-8251 — Sports and Recreational Lighting
The Town of Garner is seeking a variance to increase the allowable sports and recreational lighting fixture mounting height from 35 feet to 75 feet at Garner Recreation Park to replace outdated 40-year-old metal halide lighting with modern LED technology. The variance is needed because the flat topography of the existing park properties limits the ability to achieve the required lighting height through natural slope, and the taller poles are necessary to reduce light spill and glare on adjacent properties while maintaining competitive athletic field conditions.
07-6252 — Sports and Recreational Lighting fixture mounting at 75 feet height
The Town of Garner is replacing outdated lighting fixtures at South Garner Park with modern LED athletic field lighting that requires 75-foot mounting heights, exceeding the current 35-foot limit in UDO Section 10.2.10. This variance request affects a public recreation facility in a residential area and demonstrates whether modern sports lighting standards can accommodate existing zoning height restrictions in similar developments.
VAR-26-005 — Increase light pole height at baseball fields
The Town of Garner is seeking a variance to increase the maximum permissible light pole height from 35 feet to 75 feet at the Garner Recreation Park baseball fields. This variance request affects a 19.93-acre municipal recreational property on E Garner Road. Developers should monitor this case if they have interests in recreational zoning standards or municipal infrastructure projects in Garner.
VAR-26-004 — Baseball field lighting with 75-foot light poles
The Town of Garner is seeking a variance to increase permissible light pole height from 35 feet to 75 feet at South Garner Park's baseball fields. This variance would enable improved field lighting for the recreational facility. The request affects a 34.20-acre property and will be heard by the Board of Adjustment.
GEN-23-029 — Warehouse flex space
Heritage-Crystal Clean received a zoning compliance permit (GEN-23-029) for warehouse flex space at this location, but the property is currently in violation for unpermitted design modifications and unauthorized outdoor storage use that is not permitted in the Commercial Mixed (CMX) and Light Industrial (LI) zoning districts. Outdoor storage is only permitted in the Heavy Industrial (HI) district, and the site also has environmental compliance issues including stream modification and stormwater threshold exceedances that could affect future development approvals.
15-6795 — other
This is an appeal of zoning violations for outdoor storage and development activities conducted without permits on a 5-acre property zoned CMX and LI. The property owner disputes violations related to unpermitted work and outdoor storage use, which is only permitted in HI districts under current zoning. Developers should monitor this case as it involves interpretation of zoning compliance and grandfathering of uses under a prior ordinance iteration.
SP-23-03 — Mixed-Use (includes apartment buildings)
This 48-acre mixed-use site plan for Timber Drive East requires a variance from perimeter buffer requirements between zoning districts, specifically seeking to reduce the 45-foot buffer (plus 10 feet of tree protection fencing) to accommodate 518 required parking spaces for apartment buildings. The variance was approved with a condition requiring a Type D opaque buffer, affecting the site's final site plan design near WakeMed's Whole-Person Health Campus within a larger 220-acre mixed-use development.
VAR-26-001 — variance
Chartwell Property Group is requesting a variance to reduce the perimeter landscape buffer width from 45 feet to 25 feet for a mixed-use development at the corner of Timber Drive and White Oak Road. This buffer reduction applies to the apartment portion of the project and may affect compatibility with adjacent properties.
VAR-25-002 — variance
This variance request for 520 Powell Drive was formally withdrawn by the applicant via email on May 15, 2026, before the scheduled May 28, 2026 hearing date. The case will not proceed and requires no further action or consideration.
AA-25-004 — Existing non-conformities including site grading, fence construction, and vehicle storage use
This case involves an appeal of a zoning violation decision for property at 0 & 4710 Fayetteville Road. The appeal seeks to accept current site conditions—including site grading, fence construction, and vehicle storage—as existing non-conformities. Developers should monitor this case if they have similar non-conforming uses or site conditions that could be affected by the Board's decision on how non-conformities are treated.
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