Residents of the Tuckers Crossroads Community are concerned about a potential industrial park.
No formal rezoning request has been made, but the property owners have discussed some concepts with the county planning department that show the center of the property being used as manufacturing office and warehousing space, with commercial development toward the northwest corner.
A community meeting was held on Tuesday night to discuss the potential industrial park rezoning.
“The developers had a community meeting a couple of months back where they told everybody what they wanted to do with the property and since that time, several people in the community had talked,” Tuckers Crossroads resident Perry Neal said. “We don’t want it rezoned.”
Neal said that community members like him are not against the sale of the property but wish for it to remain under its current zoning, and to be developed withing the confines of that zoning.
“There seems to be a large number of people in the community that are opposed to rezoning it to an industrial park or commercial zoning,” Neal said.
There were around 200 people at the community meeting on Tuesday night.
“The community as a whole is definitely in opposition to having it rezoned,” Neal said. “I can’t say that everybody is against it. But those that were in attendance were definitely opposed to it.”
The community meeting was a way to gauge how much opposition there would be regarding the potential industrial park. It also allowed community members to exchange contact information.
“As needed, we can reach out to those people who are opposed and try to get them to come to the courthouse or go to some public meetings,” Neal said. “The county has public meetings where they talk about rezonings. We definitely want to show up en masse and let them know that we are not in favor of the rezoning.”
Neal said that he and other organizers of the event feel that people will be willing to show up when and if this is brought up in a meeting.
“This is still a very rural area out here, so there’s a lot of large acreage farms,” Neal said. “We just feel like that once it starts, once they open that door, then there’s no closing that door. So then what would this community look like 20 years from now? It would look like the I-840 corridor or the Highway 109 area. That’s probably our biggest issue. We do not want this community to turn into the next I-840 corridor.”
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