Winnsboro Offers Financial Aid WINNSBORO – In addition to the untold millions of dollars in damage caused by last weekend’s storm, the record flooding and rainfall prompted the cancellation of County Council’s special called meeting Monday night, resulting in a delay for a potential economic development project. Winnsboro Town Council, meanwhile, vowed at their meeting […]
Planning Commission Takes Up Housing, Zoning
October 8, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – On Monday evening the Planning Commission will discuss a site plan for The Pointe at Blythewood, a 56-unit apartment complex proposed on Main Street in the Town Center District (TCD); decide whether to recommend TCD zoning for a 4.56-acre parcel at 121 McLean Road and address proposed height limits and flat roofs on […]
Developers Vague on Heins Road Homes
October 8, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – About 75 Blythewood rural property owners attended a community meeting Oct. 1 at The Manor in Blythewood to get answers to their questions about a mega housing development proposed on 202 acres off Heins Road near their homes. Even though the developer’s team was there to answer their questions, the property owners left […]
Builders Question Fees
October 1, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After months of discussing updating the Town’s fees schedule, Town Administrator Gary Parker recommended adding fees for a landscape/tree removal plan, a tree fund and for a design review or architect’s fee to cover the cost of design reviews by the Town’s consulting architect who advises the Board of Architectural Review on matters […]
Apartment Complex Planned for Downtown
October 1, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A 56-unit apartment campus is planned for downtown Blythewood on 4 acres fronting on Highway 21 behind the Langford-Nord House. The developer of the project, Prestwick Companies of Atlanta, represented by Devin Blankenship, Senior Development Manager, will seek approval of the project’s site plan from the Town’s Planning Commission on Monday evening. No […]
Spec Building Plan Forges Ahead
October 1, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Although Town Council will not have to take any action to proceed with the construction of an investment shell building proposed by Ed Parler, the Town’s Economic Development Consultant, it did take a significant step forward with the design of the building Monday evening, voting unanimously to contract with architect Ralph Walden to […]
Community Meets on Heins Road Zoning
September 30, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A proposed 500+ housing development in Blythewood along Heins Road will be the topic of conversation this week when Richland County Councilwoman Joyce Dickerson brings together three groups: Blythewood residents who object to the development being located across the street from their rural properties, members of the Richland County Planning staff who are […]
Police Station for Rent?
September 25, 2015 By
RIDGEWAY – How much is Ridgeway’s police presence in a prime piece of downtown real estate worth? Perhaps not quite as much as Town Council would like, once Norfolk Southern takes its cut. In a special called meeting Tuesday night, Council debated the pros and cons of relocating the Police Department from 160 Palmer St. […]
Campground Aims for Restaurant
September 18, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – The owner of a campground near the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, already embroiled in a legal battle with the Jenkinsville Water Company in his efforts to add campsites, has asked County Council to rezone a portion of his property there to accommodate a restaurant. Monday night, Council held first reading and […]
Consultant Pitches Spec Building
September 17, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town’s Economic Development consultant, Ed Parler, made another pitch during Council’s work session on Tuesday for the Town to invest in a shell building to be built across from Town Hall where a restaurant was previously planned under former Town Administrator John Perry. In its aborted decision to build the restaurant, Town […]
