Mebane Council to Consider Conditional Rezoning for 82-Home Oakview Cove

The Mebane City Council will consider a conditional rezoning request by SDH Raleigh, LLC to build Oakview Cove, an 82‑lot single‑family subdivision on approximately +/-26.44 acres in Mebane’s extraterritorial jurisdiction along Gibson Road. The council agenda lists the public hearing for Monday, March 9, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., when members will take up Oakview Cove alongside a separate West End duplex rezoning.

The Mebane Planning Board voted unanimously to recommend approval of the rezoning at its February 9, 2026 meeting. The Planning Board roll call recorded an 8-0 recommendation in favor; voting for approval were William Chapman, Colin Cannell, Keith Hoover, Dalton Mack, Susan Semonite, David Scott, chairman Judy Taylor, and Edward Tulauskas, with Gale Pettiford absent. The item appeared as Item 5 on the February 9 agenda.

The rezoning application requests a change from R‑20, Residential District, to R‑8(CD), Residential Conditional District, to permit 82 single‑family homes with a listed minimum lot size of 8,000 square feet. The Planning Board agenda’s legal description identifies five parcels “located at or adjacent to 1025 and 1053 Gibson Road” and lists GPINs 9804670015, 9804569678, 9804567345, 9804566926, and 9804575715 as the subject properties. Owners named in the agenda include Dillon and Sarah Mitchell at 1053 Gibson Road and John Edwards, Sr. at 1025 Gibson Road, along with Chester Gibson, Michael and Connie Thompson, and Sandra Wooten.

City planning staff and NCDOT reviewed a traffic study that attaches several required access improvements to the project. The traffic study language included in staff materials states the developer must construct, at its own expense, a “stop-controlled site access aligned with” Copperstone Way, with one ingress lane and two egress lanes, consisting of an exclusive left‑turn lane and a combination thru‑right turn lane; a northbound left‑turn lane on Gibson Road at the entrance to the subdivision; a southbound exclusive right turn lane at the entrance on Gibson Road; and a sidewalk along Gibson Road. Those improvements are identified as conditions to satisfy city and NCDOT access requirements.

City Planner Briana Perkins told staff that the five parcels are a mix of occupied and vacant land: “This property has single‑family homes on two of the (five) properties, and then the rest (the other three parcels) are vacant.” The Oakview Cove site sits adjacent to the Copperstone community on a rapidly growing corridor north of I‑40/I‑85 where recent reporting has noted new commercial developments such as Buc‑ee’s and Target in planning or construction.

The Planning Board packet and legal exhibits supply the GPINs and owner names as the authoritative parcel identifiers; some news reports vary on whether the street numbers read 1025 or 1026 Gibson Road. City staff and the March 9 City Council packet are expected to publish the developer’s conditional zoning exhibit, site plan, and any final proffers before the council vote.