Mebane’s planning board has agreed to recommend rezoning for 120 apartments to take the place of a previous rezoning plan approved five years ago for 51 townhouses on about 14 acres off South Eleventh Street on the Orange County side of the city.
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The townhouses had been approved in August 2021, at the same time that an adjacent rezoning on eight acres had been approved for 48 apartments. The new apartments (five, three-story buildings with 24 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments in each) – will be similar in look to the three, two-story buildings just down the street, Robin McAdoo – with TMTLA Associates, the developer of both apartment complexes – told the planning board Monday night.
The apartment complex amenities will include a pocket park, dog park, pavilion with a BBQ grills, volleyball court, multiuse play area, and a community building, as plans were outlined Tuesday night.
The developer is proposing to pay Mebane $112,342 in lieu of providing public recreation space; there will be 3.68 acres of private recreation space…