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Developer Agrees to Traffic Study

BLYTHEWOOD – After months of wrangling with developer D.R. Horton over a proposed amendment to the zoning of Cobblestone Park where a majority of the members of the Town Council live, Council won out. It was announced at the meeting on Monday evening that the developer has agreed to Council’s final demand – to conduct […]

Cobblestone Debate Heats Up

Attorney Questions ‘Due Process’ BLYTHEWOOD – The six- month verbal tussle between Town Council and Cobblestone Park developer D.R. Horton over the proposed rezoning of the neighborhood progressed to higher decibels at Monday evening’s Council meeting, D.R. Horton’s attorney, Kyle Dillard, told the Council, “I do have serious questions about due process and issues implicated […]

Hiring Policies Under Review

BLYTHEWOOD – Town Council took a look at its hiring policies and procedures during their Jan. 14 work session. While Councilman Bob Massa reported that the Town’s hiring policies adhered closely to those of the S.C. Municipal Associations’ handbook, he said he would like to change the Town’s policy to require the Town government to […]

Sign Law May Survive

Town Planner Warns of ‘Fudge Creep’ BLYTHEWOOD – The controversy over the January 2016 deadline for compliance with the Town’s sign ordinance continued to percolate during a 5-hour Town Council work session on Jan. 14, but at last appears to be nearing an end. During the session, three of the five Council members were leaning […]

Town Puts Attorney on the Payroll

BLYTHEWOOD – With a 3-2 vote Monday night, Town Council created and filled the position of full-time town attorney, hiring Jim Meggs for $40,000 a year. Councilmen Bob Mangone and Bob Massa voted against the hire. Meggs, who has served as the town’s attorney through his law firm, Callison, Tighe & Robinson, since 2011, said […]

Future of Manor in Doubt

BLYTHEWOOD – A discussion at the Dec. 9 Town Council work session revealed that while the finances of The Manor, the two-year-old Town-owned conference center, have improved since last year, the facility is still hemorrhaging money, and with no end in sight. “A year ago we were losing about $8,000 each month. Now it looks […]

Winnsboro Rejects Columbia’s Waterworks Bid

No Sale on Blythewood Infrastructure WINNSBORO – For all the challenges it has presented to the Town of Winnsboro in recent years – installing new pumps, making new connections, negotiating with the City of Columbia for water and then more water – the Blythewood tentacle of Winnsboro’s water company has become a hot commodity of […]

Defining Zoning Downward

Mayor Pushes for Relaxed Restrictions BLYTHEWOOD – Mayor J. Michael Ross called for a revamping of the town’s Master Plan and specifically of the Town Center District (TCD) at the Town Council work session at the Golf Club in Cobblestone Park Tuesday morning. He had expressed at the Nov. 29 meeting that his goal is […]

Sign Ordinance Debate Divides Town Council

BLYTHEWOOD – Continuing to rehash Mayor J. Michael Ross’s concern that the Town’s sign ordinance and the Town Center District zoning is too restrictive, some Council members disagreed saying the sign ordinance should not be scrapped or even tweaked very much. The ordinance was passed in 2009 to require all signs in the town to […]

Sign Debate Heats Up

Planning Commission Pushes for Delay BLYTHEWOOD – In a surprise announcement at the October Planning Commission meeting, Chairman Malcolm Gordge reported that Town Council was rethinking the sign ordinance that was passed in 2009 that calls for the majority of non-conforming signs in the town limits to be replaced with conforming signs by Jan. 26, […]

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