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JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown planning board will consider a request at 6:30 p.m. March 8 to rezone the Potter Log House property to allow Bojangles' to build a new restaurant on the site.

The seven-acre property is at 301-303 W. Main St. and is owned by the Ragsdale Brothers LLC.

The Potter Log House still stands on the mostly vacate tract; a large portion of the building burned several years ago.

The request is to rezone the property from Main Street zoning to conditional zoning — commercial/Main Street transitional.

The restaurant chain wants to build a restaurant with a drive-through window. A private access road also would be built along the property to access the back portion of the property, which will be kept by the Ragsdale Brothers for future development.

Conditions submitted by the applicant are that the building would have a brick veneer exterior, a hedge with a minimum of two feet to screen the drive-through from view of Main Street, and a brick sidewalk along the road at Main Street.

The town’s staff report can be found online at www.jamestown-nc.us.

soccermom

February 28, 2010 - 12:01 pm EST

The saddest proposal we have had to consider in a long time. I can think of few things less appealing to what is becoming a very attractive main street than a Bojangles. Surely, those not interested in the "bottom line" would agree that the Potter Log House would be worth saving as a landmark. I am disappointed that the Ragsdales would even consider this proposal.

InventorNC

February 28, 2010 - 7:58 pm EST

Jamestown is exceptional and needs to protect itself.

Old would be my preference but why was it not rebuilt? What was the problem?

Some upscale towns specify attractive architecture, landscaping and discreet signs even on fast food restaurants. Some of the places actually look OK. Not good, but OK. Old would be better.

p_d_b

February 28, 2010 - 10:02 pm EST

If you were so concerned with that property, why did you not purchase it? Why stand in the way of people who want to make productive use of it? Do you really think a rapidly deteriorating vacant old building will add more value to the community than a business that generates jobs and goods?

This impulse to use government as a cudgel to control what other people do with their property is disgusting and reeks of transplanted Yankees.

dusenberry

March 7, 2010 - 5:33 am EST

Do you feel the same way about a topless night club or a massage parlor?
PS: the Ragsdale family can do anything it wants and there is nothing you can do about it.

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