Local developer

Dan Stinchcomb has filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County Board of

Commissioners for denying his rezoning request for more than 158 acres

at the intersection of Old Norton Road and Lester Road.

Stinchcomb

had asked the county to rezone the property from agricultural-residential,

which requires a minimum lot size of five acres, to R-50, which allows

one-acre lots. The county denied the request at a meeting last month,

citing that such a decision would go against the county's land use plan.

In the suit,

Stinchcomb argues that not approving the rezoning will keep the property

from being developed "and therefore [it] has no reasonable economic

value as currently zoned."

The property

is bordered to the west by the Fayetteville city limits.

Stinchcomb

is asking that the commission's action to deny the rezoning be declared

illegal, null and void.

The proposal

Stinchcomb brought to the county would have brought 111 homes on the property

with lot sizes no smaller than one acre. The proposal for the rezoning

was also denied by the county Planning Commission.