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I'm planning to buy a property with an old house built on about 2 acres and try to have it rezoned - so I can have the property remodeled into my company office. There will be minimum traffic since I'm a small industrial distributor, no direct sale.
There are no close-by neighborhoods/neighbours and the property is close to main street (within 1 mile down the road is a retail centre, church, and other homes).
Anybody has any experience on how hard is it to work with UC officials to rezone from residential to commercial?
Since property taxes will more than double, I would assume that if there is no neighbors complains, the officials should be happy to increase the commercial base (badly needed for UC)...
I'm planning to buy a property with an old house built on about 2 acres and try to have it rezoned - so I can have the property remodeled into my company office. There will be minimum traffic since I'm a small industrial distributor, no direct sale.
There are no close-by neighborhoods/neighbours and the property is close to main street (within 1 mile down the road is a retail centre, church, and other homes).
Anybody has any experience on how hard is it to work with UC officials to rezone from residential to commercial?
Since property taxes will more than double, I would assume that if there is no neighbors complains, the officials should be happy to increase the commercial base (badly needed for UC)...
If the property is within a village, you'll have to get their zoning people to change it.
Does it adjoin/abut an already commercially zoned district? If not, and the subject property is in the middle of a residential block (it doesn't matter whether you currently have any neighbors if the base zoning is residential), then you're likely out of both gas and fumes. Zoning boards do not like to do that and in many cases it's illegal (it's called spot rezoning).
You might ask for a variance (normally non-permitted use with conditions imposed), a Special Exception (you have to prove that the neighborhood has changed substantially and your proposed use is now not incompatible), see if your business fits under a Home Occupation category (you'd likely have to live there) or prove that the property was zoned residential in error.
As a note, and this is not a reflection on you, I hate guys that do this: buy a property fully knowing the zoning but with a non-allowed use planned who then try to have the zoning and neighborhood changed to fit their plans.
Why don't you just buy a property already zoned for your proposed use.
Does it adjoin/abut an already commercially zoned district? If not, and the subject property is in the middle of a residential block (it doesn't matter whether you currently have any neighbors if the base zoning is residential), then you're likely out of both gas and fumes. Zoning boards do not like to do that and in many cases it's illegal (it's called spot rezoning).
You might ask for a variance (normally non-permitted use with conditions imposed), a Special Exception (you have to prove that the neighborhood has changed substantially and your proposed use is now not incompatible), see if your business fits under a Home Occupation category (you'd likely have to live there) or prove that the property was zoned residential in error.
As a note, and this is not a reflection on you, I hate guys that do this: buy a property fully knowing the zoning but with a non-allowed use planned who then try to have the zoning and neighborhood changed to fit their plans.
Why don't you just buy a property already zoned for your proposed use.
I understand your frustration but this is not the case where I plan to disturb an establish neighborhood, it is all former farm land. It happens that the old farm had the land split to become commercial properties and some far apart houses, churches.
I understand your frustration but this is not the case where I plan to disturb an establish neighborhood, it is all former farm land. It happens that the old farm had the land split to become commercial properties and some far apart houses, churches.
What's the base/underlying zoning on the property you're looking at? Don't buy anything until you get your rezoning questions answered, which would be at the County's PandZ Department.
What's the base/underlying zoning on the property you're looking at? Don't buy anything until you get your rezoning questions answered, which would be at the County's PandZ Department.
Yes I will definitely confirm with the county before making an offer, I wanted to see if anybody has had any experience (while I also realize that it is all "location dependent")....it an odd one since the previous owner obviously had a road repair type of business run from this house...
Yes I will definitely confirm with the county before making an offer, I wanted to see if anybody has had any experience (while I also realize that it is all "location dependent")....it an odd one since the previous owner obviously had a road repair type of business run from this house...
If it was part of a farm and zoned agricultural that was likely a permitted use. If under the new sub-division the parcels were then zoned residential the prior use, or uses, wouldn't matter today as current zoning would control the use.
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I'm planning to buy a property with an old house built on about 2 acres and try to have it rezoned - so I can have the property remodeled into my company office. There will be minimum traffic since I'm a small industrial distributor, no direct sale.
There are no close-by neighborhoods/neighbours and the property is close to main street (within 1 mile down the road is a retail centre, church, and other homes).
Anybody has any experience on how hard is it to work with UC officials to rezone from residential to commercial?
Since property taxes will more than double, I would assume that if there is no neighbors complains, the officials should be happy to increase the commercial base (badly needed for UC)...
I don't normally open Union County threads, but I was curious.
Call or go to Monroe & find out which lawyers they deal with most frequently. Hire a lawyer.
I don't know the nature of your business, but you might be able to get it rezoned as GB. Where I live, they seem to rezone for GB easier than commercial. There seems to be an overlap.
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