Beaufort Crossing Annexation and Rezonings

At a glance

Based on the town's posted records and YouTube auto-generated captions; names, tallies and figures from captions may be wrong.

What: a roughly 80-acre commercial project called Beaufort Crossing, proposed by Baron Properties along Highway 101. It combines three rezonings (Cases 26-10, 26-11 and 26-20, each from R-20 or RC-5 to B-1 with a Future Land Use Map change to Village Commercial) and a voluntary annexation petition covering 374, 388, 404 and 550 Highway 101 East.
Where it stands: the Planning Board took up the three rezonings on 2026-09-21; a motion to deny was made and the vote was not audible in the captions, so the outcome is unverified. On 2026-10-12 the Board of Commissioners held the annexation hearing (the result was not clear from the captions and is unverified) and tabled the three rezonings to December 14, 2026. A second motion, carried 3-2, directed staff and the Town Attorney to pursue a development agreement with the applicant and bring a process back, including back through the Planning Board.
Next: the tabled rezonings are due back at the 2026-12-14 Board of Commissioners meeting, after the window covered here. At the 2026-10-26 work session a working group for the development-agreement process was set up; its final membership was not captured.

Presented together with two similar cases. Baron Properties and its engineers described the project. A motion to deny all three was made, seconded and discussed; the tally was not audible in the captions, and the Oct. 12 discussion refers to a Planning Board 4-2 vote whose direction is not clearly stated (likely a recommendation to deny; unverified).

Certificate of sufficiency presented for the voluntary annexation petition and a public hearing scheduled for Oct. 12. The annexation estimate of about $1,693.93 in annual Town tax comes from draft minutes and is unverified.

Annexation public hearing held; action taken but the spoken tally was not clear in the captions. The three rezonings were tabled to Dec. 14, 2026 (carried). A second motion to pursue a development agreement with the applicant carried 3-2.

A working group was established for the development-agreement process; nominations included three Planning Board members, final membership not captured.

Meeting pages linked in the log above, built from the town's posted agendas, minutes and meeting video captions.