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Boger City gets OK for new fire department By ANDIE LEATHERMAN, LTN Staff Writer Nov. 26 - Boger City Fire Department got permission last week from the city’s planning board to build a new fire department. Planning board members voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the conditional use permit, allowing the fire department to take its request to the Lincolnton City Council during its Dec. 13 meeting. The department wants to build a 16,000-square-foot facility on a vacant 4.22 acre tract on McAlister Road. The road connects Buffalo Shoals Road and N.C. 150. The building would have a 69-space parking lot causing concern for one neighbor. Barbara Munson told board members she was not opposed to the fire department but was concerned with the impact construction would have on already existing erosion problems. Board members added a clause to the request requiring the fire department to manage storm water, keeping it from affecting adjacent property. The new building would give the department some much needed room, officials say. “We’re completely out of space now,” said Captain Benjy Grice. The department currently is located in a building on N.C. 27 East. That building was constructed in the late 1950s and has had several additions. The department serves Boger City and Iron Station. Its district lines run down N.C. 73 to Furnace Road, Salem Road to Keever Dairy Farm Road, N.C. 150 to the Alda Crowe home and Buffalo Shoals Road to Shuford Road. Boger City is staffed by one paid firefighter who works Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 30 volunteers.
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