Rock Hill applied to add a new city park. Here’s where it will be, and what’s next
City leaders haven’t offered details on a new park coming to Rock Hill, other than where it will be.
The city planning commission recommended last week in favor of an annexation and rezoning to allow a future public park. Annexation and rezoning requests go from the planning commission to Rock Hill City Council for final approval.
The city is the applicant for the park plan, all but ensuring the annexation and rezoning will be approved.
The property is 22 wooded acres on Heckle Boulevard. It doesn’t have an address. It’s north of 524 Heckle Blvd. An American Legion building is just east of the property. On the west there’s a funeral home and cemetery.
There’s residential, including a mobile home park, to the north. Another 100-home subdivision is under construction. Property to the south, across from Heckle is in unincorporated York County.
Shana Marshburn, city planner, said the anticipated zoning change would align the property with other city parks like Manchester Meadows and Cherry Park. Marshburn didn’t offer details on what features the park might have.
“There are no development plans at this time,” Marshburn said.
The city parks, recreation and tourism department maintains more than 1,200 acres in the city. There are almost 40 combined parks and recreation centers. Sites range from small community pocket parks to sites like Cherry, Manchester the Rock Hill Sports & Event Center that draw large crowds and tourism revenue through tournament play.
It isn’t clear yet what scale the new site on Heckle would be.
“It would be open to the public just like all of our other public parks,” Marshburn said. “As far as programming, that’s unknown at this time because we don’t have any plans. But it would be similar to our other parks.”
The rezoning and annexation decisions would come with a public hearing by city council. The decisions require two votes from council. Council next meets Sept. 12.
