GRANITE QUARRY — One property is officially entering Granite Quarry after the town council approved an annexation request on Thursday and multiple others began the process of annexation on the same day.

The members of the town council voted unanimously to approve the annexation of an approximately 21-acre property located in the 3000 block of Old Concord Road.

Mayor Brittany Barnhardt said that the applicant was applying on behalf of Ames Construction, who was attempting to build a new office headquarters. Ames is working on a new Toyota plant in Randolph County and looking to move from their current location in Charlotte to be closer to that project.

Only one neighbor, Dennis Stiller, spoke during the public hearing and said that he was not in support or against the annexation, he only wanted clarification on where a future turning lane would go because he lived across the road from the property. Ames Construction’s Shawn Dahl said that the company has had preliminary discussions about the turning lane and that they would be requiring one to be constructed and would like to see it on the northbound side of the road, where their property is located.

After the hearing, the members of the council voted unanimously to approve the ordinance annexing the property and another ordinance designating the property with an Industrial zoning.

During the meeting, the council began the process of annexing two other properties, one on St. Paul’s Church Road and another in Rowan Summit on Julian Road, and postponed beginning the process for another annexation in Rowan Summit due to the petition not having been received yet.

The first petition presented was for an approximately 21-acre property in the 1700 block of St. Paul’s Church Road. Planning, Zoning and Subdivision Administrator Richard Flowe said that the property is in the town’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and so it already has a Granite Quarry zoning, Single-Family Residential 2. The annexation has been petitioned for by Texas-based LGI Homes NC because the property will contain a lower-density residential subdivision and street and infrastructure improvements, which the town requires to be fully inside the municipal limits so that it can maintain the full street network instead of only partially maintaining the network, said Flowe.

The second petition was for a future Circle K location in Rowan Summit, which is the shopping center on Julian Road. The permits for the project have already been issued by the Rowan County Planning Department, said Flowe. He also said that he has looked at the plans for the project and they are in line with the town’s ordinances.

The public hearings for the annexation of the St Paul’s Church Road and Circle K properties were set for the council’s meeting on Sept. 9 at 6 p.m.

The other Rowan Summit annexation request on Thursday’s agenda was for the Texas Roadhouse. Flowe said that the town had not officially received the petition yet, and so the council postponed the discussion.