West Rowan News, Events, and Fun

      The Cleveland, NC zoning/planning board met tonight 2-27-2023 for the scheduled monthly meeting. Two resident requests were heard; a request to subdivide property and request for an exception to a rule requiring pools to be in back yards. In addition, three residents signed up to address the issue of goats being allowed in town limits. The goat issue was brought up at the last town board meeting and was referred to zoning/planning at that time.  Dividing Land with a Rowan County Right-away  Robert Beck asked the board for a special use permit to divide his property lot SUP20230113. The land in question is located just off Old Hwy 70 around Young's Mountain. He said that he wanted his son and any future wife to have five acres of the land to build a house in the future. Beck and his son own a business on the property which was approved previously by Cleveland town board. The concern with dividing the property as requested, per the town, was that the divisio...

  The Cleveland, North Carolina zoning board turned down a request for a conditional use exception at a special called meeting tonight 3-11-2021. Cleveland resident, George Eller, wanted to turn on electricity to a 16x24 storage building on his property at 202 School Street. He had installed the portable building last year, and power lines had been added. But, the building did not meet zoning guidelines then or now. The issue came up when he tried to have electricity turned on. The power company would not turn on electricity with the building not to zoning standards. Eller stated that this was when he became aware of the zoning requirements.  Since Eller was not able to have power to his storage building, he checked with Cleveland town hall and requested an exception which goes before the zoning board.  Tonight Eller explained his dilemma and said that he was not aware of the rules beforehand. He noted that the building in question is at the back of the lot and actually a...