Offices off I-77, new homes and a moratorium update among latest York County decisions
New business off I-77 in Fort Mill, new homes in western York County and a new date for the Lake Wylie building moratorium are all planned.
The York County planning commission meets Nov. 8. All those items are up for review. The Fort Mill and Lake Wylie items then would go to York County Council for a final decision.
Here’s a look at what the county has proposed:
▪ There’s a proposal to extend the moratorium on Lake Wylie residential construction. There’s a temporary prohibition on apartments, condos and townhomes now in a Lake Wylie overlay area that includes the S.C. 49 corridor coming into the area from North Carolina at the Buster Boyd Bridge. It could be extended an additional three months.
In December 2019 York County Council grew the boundaries of an overlay and restricted new development applications. Council set a minimum lot size there of an acre. The plan was to allow time for a small area plan to be developed by the county for Lake Wylie. Council already extended the moratorium once. Now the plan is to extend it from its cutoff at the end of this year, to March 1, 2022.
Council finalized the small area plan a year ago. A future land use map within it incorporated lower density development standards the moratorium aimed to provide. Yet in the fall of 2019 the county set out on a larger code overwrite called Recode York County. It changes a variety of subdivision and zoning codes countywide.
The latest moratorium extension coincides with the anticipated completion of Recode York County.
▪ Plans to rezone almost 10 acres at 2120 Coltharp Road in Fort Mill would allow new commercial space. William and Doris Coltharp Limited Family Partnership owns the property at Coltharp and I-77. Plans involve two new buildings, each with 33,000 square feet of flex business space.
There is a home on the property. There are residential properties in the area, but none of them abut the property. There is light manufacturing in the area with Shutterfly facilities. Some of the property was split in 1998 to allow for Shutterfly.
The new light industrial zoning requested would allow for warehouse, medical and other uses in addition to industrial ones. Submitted site plans show two entrances to the property off Coltharp.
York County Council will make the final call on rezoning. A public hearing with that group is expected Dec. 6.
▪ The second phase of Stonecrest Meadows would be 51 new homes in western York County. The 82-acre property is on Smith Road, between S.C. 161 and Filbert Highway in the Kings Mountain area. Companies Homes by Christopher and Stonecrest Meadows own the property.
Stonecrest Meadows came to the county this same time last year with first phase plans for 18 homes on almost 67 acres. The planning commission will consider preliminary plat, a final decision the group can make to allow construction.
