Town of Snow Hill in Greene County, North Carolina

Fall 2005 features a continuation of town development activities that are visible now or will emerge in the coming months.

Development Activities:

Tree plantings, tree maintenance, and other beautification activities enhance Snow Hill’s appearance and livability. The town’s employees, Snow Hill Tree Board members, and volunteers are stepping up beautification efforts. Local businesses and developers have stepped up tree planting and landscaping too. This issue of the “Around the Town” has highlighted some current projects as have past reports.

A year ago John Sugg, Certified Arborist with Treefull Communities, LLC and Mike Ham, public works department maintenance worker cataloged four hundred plus public trees. A long-term management program has begun using the inventory for guidance in tree maintenance. The first and second days in November this year will see these two going about the town marking suitable spaces, where there are no overhead power lines, for the planting of one hundred twenty-three shade trees. Anyone interested in volunteering to help tree board members and public works department personnel with this effort should contact Bob Clark at town hall.

The Snow Hill Planning Board and Board of Adjustment have reviewed plans and issued permits for several projects.

1. A special use permit has been issued for the construction of nineteen single-family homes in the Hamptons, a planned residential development to be built off the East Side of US 258S. The property is owned by Ham Produce Company, Inc., Bobby Ham, President. Barrow & Barrow, PA prepared the preliminary subdivision and street layout. Appian Consulting Engineers, PA prepared water and sewer systems plans. Loretta Barrow is marketing the planned community.

2. Greene County Parks and Recreation received approval of plans for the new multi-use public recreation complex to be located north of Kingold Blvd. on a portion of the former Paxar industrial property. Access to the new park will be provided from a planned new section of Perry Drive. The new road will also serve two commercial tracts fronting Kingold Blvd. Barrow & Barrow, P.A. of Snow Hill prepared the development plans.

3. Bobby Taylor is adding five new courts to the Green Ridge Racquet and Swim Club. The expansion at 609 Kingold Blvd. is the latest phase of the popular tennis center. The Snow Hill Planning Board under a standing special use permit approved the additional tennis courts. Barrow & Barrow, PA prepared the site plans.

4. Divita, a medical dialysis center, received a rear yard setback variance to allow construction of a new building on the site of the former Snow Hill Plumbing, Heating & AC, Co. building located on a 1.22-acre tract at 1025 Kingold Blvd. Hillco Support Services for the owners, Neil Realty Company, submitted the application. K2 Design Group, P.A. of Goldsboro, N.C., prepared the site plan.

5. Frank Harper has completed very nice internal and outside renovations to the former farm credit bureau building at 301 SE Second Street. The “Harper Building” site now features new fencing, sidewalk, and trees. Harper Landscaping, Inc. provided the landscaping.
6. J. L. Gurley of Goldsboro, NC is building the first phase of Security Mini-storage off the east side of Perry Drive. The Planning Board approved the site plans showing five buildings in this phase of construction and four more for later development on the 2.5-acre site. Mr. Gurley readily agreed to the Planning Board’s request to use directed full-cut-off light fixtures. This form of lighting maximizes on-site lighting but eliminates extra nightglow and off-site glare.

7. Gary Christman, a local contractor and downtown property is undertaken the redevelopment of the middle portion of the 200 block of N. Greene Street by removing unsightly buildings and grading a new parking lot. The new arrangement will tie into the town hall parking lot and provide a much-improved parking arrangement for surrounding users.

8. The Snow Hill Planning Board is studying the town’s portion of the recently adopted Greene County Hazard Mitigation Plan. Any suggested changes will be forward to Randy Skinner, EMS Director, for consideration in the Federal Emergency Management Agency certification of the document.