The city of Greer Planning Commission held a public hearing Tuesday night tabling two new subdivisions contingent on a traffic impact study. Greer City Council gave unanimous first reading approval on May 10.
The two subdivisions were seeking approval for building a total of 164 homes on two separate parcels around Brushy Creek Road.
Seventeen people spoke with their concerns of the developments.
“We had several new subdivisions and several land annexations,” Commission Chairman Kevin Tumblin said. “Several items in the middle of the agenda were approved and a couple of subdivision issues got tabled to next month.”
All members of the commission were in attendance tonight except for Don Foster who was out of town.
• Annexation and zoning was approved RM-2 for 84 residential multi-family single family town homes on 21.05 acres of land at the Brushy Creek Road and Alexander Road intersection.
• A rezoning request was approved for Design Review District for 80 single family homes to be constructed on 25.97 acres at Hammett Bridge Road and Dilliard Drive.
“I think that they all fit into the community and I thought for the most part they looked good,” Tumblin said. “A couple of these sites we’ve seen in the past and these new proposed developments had less density and they’ll work well in the community.”
Other items approved:
• Final development plan approved for property at Hammett Bridge Road and E. Suber Road, across from Riverside High School, requesting an 80,000-square-foot corner development to be constructed on a 3.44-acre site. Bee Safe Storage and Wine Cellar will be two of the tenants.
• Zoning classification at 414 Jones Avenue requesting R-M2, multi-family residential for .29 acres. Brian Martin of District Six was the lone dissenter.
“The issue that I had is that the triangular piece of land that is adjacent to a town home community,” Martin said. “The land sits higher above the elevation wise from the town home community, a three-story brick structure that would be quite large and visible in that location and for me that just doesn’t fit in the overall design and scheme of that community.”
Commissioners approved a resolution to adopt the Comprehensive Plan (2015 Review Supplement) for the City of Greer consistent with the requirements of the South Carolina Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act of 1994. Greer City Council conducted a public hearing on May 10 and gave first reading approval.
A second reading for approval at City Council was scheduled for May 24.