GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – A re-zoning battle along West Friendly Avenue in Greensboro has sparked a fire for the neighbors to prevent future battles.
They applied and went through the process of a neighborhood conservation overlay, which is otherwise known as NCO.
It’s essentially a way for neighbors to work with the city and define new zoning guidelines that any future development along West Friendly Avenue would have to follow.
On Monday night, the West Friendly Avenue NCO went in front of the city’s planning and zoning board for a recommendation before it gets handed off to the city council. It would be up to the council for final approval. That’s expected to happen at their meeting in mid-October.
“If we don’t do this then we will lose our community and the environment that we have,” said John Drinkard, who lives along West Friendly Avenue.
Drinkard and his neighbors have a united front to prevent Glenn Drew’s development proposal turned into a new set of guidelines known as a neighborhood conservation overlay.