After hearing from numerous concerned residents in Currie, Pender County Commissioners voted to rezone an old lumber yard into a site that will allow for a plethora of industrial uses.
TW & AG Timber, LLC requested the approval of the commissioners on Jan. 16, to expand the existing industrial site of the old lumber yard located at the corner of Porter Road and Malpass Corner Road.
The site was originally approved with a special-use permit in 1988 for lumber manufacturing, but the current owner and applicant wished to seek the allowance of additional light industrial and industrial uses for the site as well as to expand the development into two adjacent parcels that are under the same ownership, which will bring the total acreage to 59.
The light industrial uses that the owners planned to allow on the property include construction of buildings, specialty trade contractors, artisan manufacturing, food manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, computer electronic product manufacturing, ready mixed concrete manufacturing, truck transportation, real estate and rental and leasing, storage businesses, waste management, textile production, educational services such as technical and trade schools, automobile repair and maintenance, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair, and sales and rental.