Smithfield residents will have two opportunities in November to weigh in on proposed revisions to the town’s entrance corridor overlay district.
Smithfield’s zoning ordinance designates 500-foot-wide zones along each side of North and South Church streets, West Main Street, Benns Church Boulevard and Battery Park Road as the town’s entrance corridors, and requires that new construction within this zone be “appropriate to town character.”
The Town Council has scheduled a public hearing during its Nov. 6 meeting on an amendment to the ordinance that, according to Community Development and Planning Director Tammie Clary, would clarify exemptions for single-family dwellings located in the designated entrance corridors. The town’s Planning Commission held its own hearing, which drew no speakers, and advanced the changes with a unanimously favorable recommendation at its Oct. 8 meeting…