Elena Marsh
Staff Writer
The Moore County Board of Commissioners have decided to indefinitely postpone a decision on allowing major subdivisions to be built in the Seven Lakes and Wood Lake gated communities.
Citing the unfinished updated Land Use Plan and too many uncertainties in the infrastructure required to support any potential development in those locations, the commissioners voted unanimously to indefinitely table the decision until an undetermined time and date.
Four speakers from the Seven Lakes area attended and spoke against the ordinance update.
At the Tuesday meeting of the commissioners, planning staff presented a potential update to the development ordinance allowing major subdivisions in the county’s defined Gated Community Seven Lakes and Gated Community Woodlake zoning districts. While the districts already contain major subdivisions, no further major subdivisions are allowed in these areas.
“Making major subdivisions allowable via a special use permit in these districts would provide an option for major subdivisions to occur near existing residential developments,” read the proposed ordinance update.
The language did require that the board hold a formal judicial review of the subdivisions were they to be proposed.
Contact Elena Marsh at (910) 693-2484 or elena@thepilot.com.
