Campus Crest issues bill of assurance on sale barn property
Campus Crest Development, LLC, the applicant for rezoning of the sale barn property on Government Avenue, has issued a bill of assurance to the city of Fayetteville as part of their rezoning request.
A three-story height restriction and a 50-foot buffer for construction on Government Avenue, .39 acres for Frisco trail expansion, native vegetation along the borders of the property, a pedestrian walkway and parking along Government Avenue, and a rain garden detention facility are some of the assurances the developers have proposed.
Fayetteville City Attorney Kit Williams said that the bill of assurance would go along with the zoning if the rezoning passes, and would be enforceable in court. “If the zoning is passed, the bill of assurance would follow the property no matter who owned it,” Williams said.
Campus Crest has twice asked the council for more time to develop the bill of assurance, in response to concerns by neighbors and veterans groups opposed to the rezoning of the 9-acre site from I-1 Light Industrial/Heavy Commercial to Downtown General.
“We heard concerns about density, setback and native vegetation, and this is our guarnatee to the city that we will include these items in the development,” said Alex Eyssen, spokesperson for Campus Crest. “Those items were identified from meetings with city leaders and the neighborhood.”
Bill of Assurance Rendering
Neighbors and some veterans have been vocal in recent weeks against the rezoning, citing noise and traffic concerns in the neighborhood, and concerns over student housing and its proximity to the National Cemetery adjacent to the property.
The rezoning request was first heard by the council on June 16, and has been tabled four times, twice by the council, and twice at the request of the applicant Campus Crest to buy time to create the bill of assurance issued on Monday.
It is expected that the council will make a decision Tuesday night on the sale barn rezoning, which will appear first under unfinished business on Tuesday’s agenda.
In addition to the sale barn rezoning, ordinances proposed at the last meeting of the council regarding the Red Dirt Mining and Rock Quarry west of town will be on their second reading tonight.
More From the Bill of Assurance
- A three-story height restriction on all buildings within fifty (50) feet of the property line along Government Avenue
- There shall be a fifty (50) feet building set back along all property adjacent to Government Avenue
- There shall be a density limit of twenty (20) residential apartment units per acre on all property subject to the overall development prior to any land dedication as required by the City of Fayetteville.
- Petitioner shall dedicate approximately 0.39 acres to the Fayetteville Parks Department for multi-use Frisco Trail expansion and parkland dedication
- Petitioner shall cooperate with the Fayetteville Parks Department to provide a pedestrian trail from Government Avenue to the Frisco Trail
- Petitioner shall plant native vegetation along Government Avenue, National Street, Dunn Avenue and Eleventh Street
- Petitioner shall incorporate at least two full access points to existing city streets for pedestrian and vehicular traffic
- Petitioner shall construct a rain garden detention facility at the northeast corner of Dunn Avenue and Eleventh Street
- Petitioner shall construct a Storm Water Quality Basin / Detention Pond along the Frisco Trail
- Petitioner shall construct on-street parking along Government Avenue, National Street, Dunn Avenue, and Eleventh Street.
Disclosure: The owner of the sale barn property, Billy Joe Bartholomew, is our own Dustin Bartholomew’s grandfather. Read our full disclosure policy here.
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burgerboy
September 15, 2009
And it fails…
Ironically, the same anti-development uber-wannabe-hippies who you saw protesting this development will be the same ones demanding “light rail!!!” at the tops of their lungs.
The fact that density is a requirement for light rail feasibility is beyond their grasp.
And Fayetteville gets to look at a dilapidated, abandoned barnyard instead of new housing, bike trails and further investment in the Mill District.
Everybody wants a “mixed-use” development in that spot. Thats code for a sexy, upscale-looking development.
There’s nothing in the south side of town that warrants sexy, mixed-use development at all. A mixed-use development works best with density and mass transit. Those are two things south Fayetteville will never have because of the people down there protesting.
Congrats. You maintained your ugly, overgrown, chain-link fenced, powerline strewn landscape and the city loses tax dollars and new investment. Woo-hoo….
There’s a balance to be had between development and preservation.
I hope a noisy heavy industry operates in that location by right, because it is an industrial zone, and you idiots protested tonight to keep it that way.
interested party
September 15, 2009
I think the owner of the salebarn should fill it with hogs and see if the neighbors like that better than college students!
burgerboy
September 15, 2009
I think its just ridiculous that an area as depressed and ugly and in need of renewal as south Fayetteville denied a project that would inject not only new residents, but encourage more adjacent retail and restaurant development.
I saw the old naturist guy on the news state, falsely, that “the veterans need that land for the cemetery” when the truth is that the cemetery folks admitted they are primarily interested in the land fronting Hill Street.
Apparently they don’t have a problem with expanding the cemetery in that direction, where it is across the street from a big new student housing complex.
I saw Kyle Cook with shaking voice declare his opposition to the project on less than solid logic. I believe his primary motivation was fear of a Coody-style insurrection led by the unemployable/retired wannabe hippies.
The bottom line is this. There won’t be any “upscale” residential ever built there. There won’t be any upscale “mixed-use” development built at that location. There is no demand for either in south Fayetteville and there won’t be for 20 years. What south Fayetteville needs is new, carefully planned, dense development. It needs amenities. It needs new businesses.
The rezoning didn’t guarantee a “College Park” style development there. The city still had a lot of say given the form-based code of the proposed zoning classification.
Now it will sit. How can the city justify ever re-zoning that property Downtwon General or anything else that makes sense now? Will they ridiculously zone a run down stockyards as “neighborhood conservation”?
Keep Fayetteville Funky and full of decaying stockyards and unused industrial buildings. Just don’t dare expect grandma to coexist with some college students.
I’m getting to where I wish the whole lot would move to West Fork where nothing ever changes, and let our city grow and modernize.
The mostly empty but ambitious Mill District project would have benefitted greatly from the injection of that many residents. Now it will continue to languish, while subdivisions are built to the shore of Lake Wedington. At least Town Branch residents won’t have to admit that they live in a city.