By correspondent Tammy Grubb
The Carrboro aldermen paved the way for the Shelton Station project Tuesday night, voting 4-3 to rezone three North Greensboro Street properties to general business after a developer agreed to build flexible space into a residential building.
Alderman Sammy Slade told developer Ken Reiter he would vote for the rezoning if first-floor apartments and a ground-level garage were adapted to serve future retail and office needs.
“I think what he’s saying is just accommodate it, so if someone shows up and wants it 20 years from now, that there’s leeway there,” Reiter said. “Just making sure that you make the space a little bit bigger, the walls taller, build it to a different type of code level, such that if someone comes along and wants to do something that it’s easier to do.”
