A 46-lot residential subdivision proposed on 14 acres in the Castle Hayne community would require a conditional zoning district from New Hanover County, according to a letter sent recently to adjacent property owners.

The undeveloped land off Blue Clay Road is owned by New Beginning Christian Church, which is where a community meeting on the project will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27, the letter from Cindee Wolf, owner of Design Solutions, said. The church is located at 3120 Alex Trask Drive next to the property where the proposed subdivision would go.

The same kind of request for 46 acres, where the 154-lot Rachel’s Place residential subdivision is planned, was approved earlier this month by the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners. Rachel’s Place is a separate project on land off Blue Clay Road that's adjacent to the church’s property but owned by the heirs of Rachel Trask Gonsalves.

After a general rezoning request for 73 acres, including the property owned by the church and the separate parcels owned by the Gonsalves heirs, was not approved by county officials last year, the church decided to come back to the county with its own performance residential development plan to seek a conditional zoning district (CZD).  

A CZD "allows particular uses to be established only in accordance with specific standards and conditions to each individual development project. Essentially, this means that only that use, structures and layout of an approved proposal can be developed," Wolf explained in the letter, which was accompanied by a site plan of the 46-lot subdivision (pictured above).

The county requires developers to hold meetings for property owners within 500 feet of the tract boundary for proposed projects like that of the New Beginning residential subdivision plan.