Here’s a recap of 2024’s first city of Greenville Planning Commission meeting on Feb. 1:
Approved: Rezoning of property on Winn Street in Southernside
Developer Reid Hipp brought this matter to the planning commission to rezone the property located at 25 Winn St. from an MX-2 (Mixed Use 2) District to RH-D (Residential Housing) in the Southernside Special Emphasis Neighborhood.
This property is currently vacant, but owned by S&H of South Carolina LLC. Approval of this rezoning would ensure consistent zoning for a proposed subdivision.
The commission approved rezoning unanimously.
Approved: Annexation and rezoning of Cherrydale
The city of Greenville brought forth an application for the annexation and rezoning of several properties within the Cherrydale area.
The commission unanimously approved this application, providing another leap forward for the ongoing discussion of Cherrydale’s annexation into the city of Greenville.
The annexation would result in the adoption of roughly 126 acres along North Pleasantburg Drive and Poinsett Highway into the city of Greenville.
Of those 126, the application submitted proposals for rezoning of 96.122 acres of properties currently zoned as C-1 (Commercial District), C-2 (Commercial District), C-3 (Commercial District), R-12 (Single-Family Residential District), S-1 (Services District) and I-1 (Industrial District), respectively to BH (Business Heavy District), BG (Business General District) and IG, (Industrial General District).
The properties designated sit along the following corridors:
- North Pleasantburg Drive
- Worley Road
- Tulip Street
- Furman Hall Road
- Sylvania Avenue
- State Park Road
- Poinsett Highway
Approved: Annexation and rezoning of lot on 9 Stall St.
James White, president of Professional Developers LLC, applied for the annexation and rezoning of 0.123 acres of property at Stall Street near Park Place into the city of Greenville.
Approval would result in the portion of the property currently designated as R-M20 (Multifamily Residential District) in Greenville County to RN-A (Neighborhood A District) if annexed into the city.
The front portion of the property was already annexed into the city in the 1930s. White brought this application to remove and replace the existing residential structure with another, requiring the lot’s total annexation.
The application was met with the commission’s unanimous approval.
Approved: Rezoning of Fair Forest properties
Madina W. Cauthen, owner of Fair Forest of Greenville LLC, brought an application for rezoning of 46.465 acres of properties located on Dairy Drive, Global Drive, Ridge Road and Fairforest Way.
Cauthen’s proposed zoning would bring the properties from IG (Industrial General District) to IX (Industrial Flex District) zoning.
The application brings to focus two properties along Global Drive. The first totals 37.745 acres at 28 Global Drive, and the second totals 8.72.
Rezoning of the first property would ensure that land use remains in compliance with zoning designation. Table 301 Catering and East Link Academy are tenants at this location that go outside permitted IG zoning uses. The second parcel of property is the site of a proposed church, which would not be permitted in IG zoning.
The commission approved this application unanimously.
Approved: Rezoning of property on Garlington Road
Elizabeth Blackhall, attorney for Garlington Park Properties LLC, brought the commission an application for rezoning 12.42 acres of property on Garlington Road near Interstate 85.
Blackhall submitted the application to ensure the property’s existing use complied with zoning. In the adoption of the 2023 development code, the current land use for the property fell out of compliance with zoning as it went from S-1 (Services zoning) to IG.
Approval of the application would bring the property from IG to IX zoning. The commission approved unanimously.
Finally, the commission approved the deferral of a text amendment to Article 19.3 of the Greenville Development Code to March 2024.
