By Dave Vieser. One day after Cornelius Today published an online article about the July 8 hearing on the Sunset Cove Nantz Road project, the town announced that the public hearing has been postponed indefinitely.
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“The town was notified on June 12 by the Sunset Cove rezoning applicant that they wish to pause their rezoning application until a later, unspecified date to allow more time for coordination with the community and refinement of the plan,” said Senior Town Planner Aaron Tucker.
Background
The original application was filed with the town on Feb. 7. According to town regulations , the application remains active since they have conducted both a community meeting and initial town board presentation.
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Project applicant Larry Griffin Jr. seeks rezoning for 8.6 acres of prime lakefront property at 18311/18323 Nantz Road to convert two existing single-family homes into an event space for weddings and corporate events to be called Sunset Cove.
The current zoning on the site is general residential and Griffin is asking for conditional zoning, but the proposal has generated concern from neighbors.
The future meeting date will be announced by the town. Whatever date is selected,the meeting will take,place at Town Hall on Catawba Avenue. It will also be live streamed on the town web site: www.cornelius.org.
Seeing as more than 95% of Nantz, Yachtman, Serenity and Courtside Landing residents have been vehemently opposed to any commercial project on residential property on this penninsula, hopefully the idea is dissolved. The Griffins were not represented (in person but perhaps in proxy) at the last neighborhood meeting and have not had any neighborhood meetings other than the one months ago. Hopefully they are seeing the forest for the trees and succumb to the idea that pulling the project would make them far better neighbors rather than being another representation or the good-old-boy, loophole driven, quasi kleptocracy that has made so many citizens cynical about democracy in what seems to many to be a second “gilded age” where influence is bought by those who can afford it and laws only apply to the people who cannot afford favor. Compromise was suggested in regards to the conditional zoning, which allows for such tomfoolery, but none of the residents seemed to waiver. I have met NO ONE on this road or the adjacent neighborhoods who want this who has no vested interest in the project, stated or otherwise.
Posted by James Retarides | June 14, 2025, 8:14 am