Planning board gives OK to rezoning along Faith Road for salon

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, June 10, 2015

By David Purtell

david.purtell@salisburypost.com

The Salisbury Planning Board approved a request to rezone property along Faith Road to allow for a hair salon during its meeting Tuesday.

Tasha Hall and Crystal Vanhoy, who work at Touch of Class on South Main Street, plan to make the house at the corner of Faith Road and Ann Street — 230 Ann Street is the address — into a salon and open their own business there. The property is currently zoned urban residential. Vanhoy and Hall plan to buy the property and are requesting it be rezoned to residential mixed-use to allow for the salon.

City Council will hear the request Tuesday.

The board approved revisions to the master plan for phase two of the new development at the old Civic Park Apartments. The revisions make Hall Street a private drive in the complex. Williams Road, which will be extended into the complex, and Tabernacle Street will stay public.

Phase two should be completed sometime in 2016. The new development, which is along Standish Street and Brenner Avenue, will be a combination of public housing and mixed income housing. It will be called Brenner Crossing. Phase one is nearly complete.

The board also approved a request for a special use permit making “child daycare center” a permitted use in a currently vacant facility at 114 Oakwood Avenue. Robin M. Kluttz-Ellison owns the property, which has been used as daycare center in the past — it was built for the use. But the building was grandfathered in under the city’s old land development ordinance. The new ordinance requires a special use permit for commercial child daycares in areas zoned for residential mixed use.

The last daycare at the facility closed in 2013 and the “daycare” designation lapsed after 180 days. Kluttz said she wants the permit to be issued in case someone who wants to use the building for a daycare center comes along.

Contact Reporter David Purtell at 704-797-4264.