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The Roanoke Rapids Planning Board Thursday evening passed on a recommendation to city council for approval of a conditional use permit which would allow a members only dart club to have a bar to help defray expenses for the building at 310 Roanoke Avenue.

Council will hold a quasi-judicial evidentiary hearing on the matter at its April 2 meeting. That meeting will be held at 5:15 p.m. at Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall on Jackson Street.

Establishment of a bar is permitted in the B-1 commercial district with issuance of a CUP, City Planner Joe Hatch told the board.

The applicant for the CUP, Tony Floyd, was granted zoning approval to use the building as a social club in February, Hatch said.

Floyd said prior to the start of the meeting a group of eight players began throwing darts in his shop twice a week. Since that time the number of players has swelled to 40.

The avenue building called Crickets allows the throwers to compete in league play with teams from Raleigh, Fayetteville and Richmond. “They hope to have out of town guests to come and spend money,” Hatch said.

Floyd said the occupancy of the building is 49 people and the business would hold tournaments after 5 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with possibility of some Sunday tournaments.

Floyd said parking would not be an issue. A neighboring transmission shop would allow parking, there are six spaces behind the building and it would have access to both sides of the avenue. There are no requirements for onsite parking in the B-1 commercial district, Hatch said.

A memo from Planning and Development Director Kelly Lasky reiterated Floyd’s need for a proper place to host tournaments. “The search for a building is the result of a growth in people coming to his home to throw darts. Over several years the crowd has become more than can be regularly accommodated on his property.”

The memo continued, “Since this group has gotten organized, they have been traveling to dart-throwing competitions up to 200 miles distance and hope to hold such competitions in Roanoke Rapids … They have formed a dues-paying organization to support this endeavor and would like to have the building open three or four nights a week for the use by members and guests. They hope that having alcohol sales will help support the expense in operating the building and enhance the social aspect of having a place to go.”