Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Stinchcomb sues commission for rezoning denial

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

Local developer Dan Stinchcomb has filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County Board of Commissioners for denying his rezoning request for more than 158 acres at the intersection of Old Norton Road and Lester Road.

Stinchcomb had asked the county to rezone the property from agricultural-residential, which requires a minimum lot size of five acres, to R-50, which allows one-acre lots. The county denied the request at a meeting last month, citing that such a decision would go against the county's land use plan.

In the suit, Stinchcomb argues that not approving the rezoning will keep the property from being developed "and therefore [it] has no reasonable economic value as currently zoned."

The property is bordered to the west by the Fayetteville city limits.

Stinchcomb is asking that the commission's action to deny the rezoning be declared illegal, null and void.

The proposal Stinchcomb brought to the county would have brought 111 homes on the property with lot sizes no smaller than one acre. The proposal for the rezoning was also denied by the county Planning Commission.

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