Sonja Rothstein News Today

Note: This article was updated on Sept. 8, 2022.

Following a 5-3 vote on Tuesday, the Pinehurst Planning and Zoning Board is recommending that the Village Council not prohibit short-term home rentals in areas zoned for single-family residential use.

Following a 5-3 vote on Tuesday, the Pinehurst Planning and Zoning Board will recommend that the Village Council not prohibit short-term home rentals in areas zoned for single-family residential use.

Plans for a hotel key to the Pinehurst Resort’s new role as an anchor site for the U.S. Open and other golfing championships have cleared the first phase of the village’s approval process. After more than four hours of presentations, public hearings and discussion on Wednesday, Pinehurst’s Planning and Zoning board unanimously recommended the conditional rezoning of 2.7 acres off of Carolina Vista Drive to allow for construction of a 64,000-square-foot hotel. The project with the...