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Here's what's on the Dec. 1 County Commissioner agendas

The Johnston County Board of Commissioners will meet twice on Monday, Dec. 1.

At their 10 a.m. meeting, Commissioners will:

Hear a presentation on a proposed Comprehensive Trails and Greenway Plan. With help from community input and McAdams, a consulting firm, the plan lays out hundreds of miles of trails throughout Johnston.
Consider grant requests from the following towns and community recreation groups: Corinth-Holders Community Recreation, Glendale Chapel Community Recreation, Pine Level, Princeton, Smithfield, Wilson’s Mills, Benson, Meadow Athletic Association, and Four Oaks Civitan. The grants would support recreation projects in those communities. The money would come from the fee developers pay when they choose not to include open space or create recreation amenities in their subdivisions
Likely accept funding to study how best to reduce so-called “forever chemicals” and disinfection byproducts in Johnston's public water supply. The state has offered the County a principal-forgiveness loan to conduct the study. Also, it has received settlement dollars from 3M/DuPont to implement the study recommendations.
Consider a proposed policy that lays out how the County and its towns should share in the cost of fire protection, including equipment and fire stations.
Hear an $843,700 request from Public Utilities to design a new 24-inch water main on U.S. 70, roughly from St. Ann Catholic Church to the water tank near Bethesda Baptist Church.
Hear a request from the Parks and Open Space Department to temporarily lease the former Rose Dairy Farm land from the Triangle Land Conservancy. The TLC plans to deed the land to the County, perhaps as soon as the first quarter of next year. But Parks and Open Space, which currently shares space in the County’s Land Use Center, wants to begin prepping the site to host its offices.
Hear proposed changes to the County’s Water and Sewer Policy. Most notably, for housing lots outside subdivisions, the policy would not require homes to tap onto the County’s public water supply.
Consider appointments to the Clayton Planning Board, Clayton Board of Adjustment, Veterans Services Advisory Board, and Economic Development Advisory Board.

At 6 p.m., commissioners will hear requests to rezone:

301.24 acres at Gordon Road and U.S. 70 Business between Clayton and Wilson's Mills. The request is for both light and heavy industrial uses, although the developer, in a nod to neighborhood concerns, has agreed not to pursue some four dozen uses, including auto repair, trucking terminals, wholesale gasoline storage, chemical manufacturing, junkyards and salvage yards, asphalt plants and the storage of explosives.
0.2 acres at 1111 Cleveland Road in Cleveland Township. The request is for business use. Jana Brown wants to build an ice cream shop and perhaps a miniature golf course there.
2.6 acres at 7346 Brogden Road in the Brogden community between Smithfield and Princeton. The request is for business use. Most likely, a Dollar General store would go on the land.
1.14 acres at 16745 Buffalo Road near Archer Lodge. The request is for business use, including a fitness center and retail store.

The Planning Board has recommended Commissioners grant all but the Buffalo Road request.

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