A traffic truck maker, massive warehouse, new homes. What York County may see next.
A traffic truck fabricator, massive warehouse and more new homes may be on the way in York County.
The county planning commission meets Feb. 10. Several proposals come from Clover, Fort Mill, Lake Wylie and other parts of the county. Some still require York County Council approval.
Here’s a look at the items up for review:
▪ An almost 23-acre property at 131 Hwy. 161 North in Clover is up for rezoning. The site has an abandoned warehouse and trucks there now. It’s beside a vacant commercial building and a fire station. Kings Mountain State Park is across the highway.
The applicant wants to use the site for a traffic management fabrication and storage facility, per the planning commission agenda. A drawing for Carolina Traffic Devices shows a main building at the intersection of Hwy. 161 and Battleground Road, with two new access points off the main highway. The application notes the company will fabricate and upfit specialized traffic control trucks used for highway construction.
▪ The planning commission will consider subdivision approval and hold a public hearing on a road name change for a project that could bring a 1.1 million-square-foot warehouse near Fort Mill. RG Baxter Lane applied for a project called Stateline 77. A separate request would cut off Baxter Lane — the road, not the developer — in a cul-de-sac just ahead of a new roadway called Logistics Lane.
The Baxter Lane road would be renamed to New Carrick Court. Logistics Lane would come off Central Carolina Parkway, near its U.S. 21 intersection.
A traffic study submitted with the project notes the warehouse at 1.1 million square feet, west of U.S. 21 and north of Gold Hill Road.
▪ Planners again will take up The Peninsula at Lake Wylie, an almost 350-acre project the group deferred in January over concerns about community septic systems used in the plan. Plans involve 161 homes on the Concord Road peninsula in Lake Wylie. It’s in the area of Catawba Nuclear Station.
▪ Shepherds Trace wants to revise a prior approval for new homes at S.C. 55 and Shepherds Trace Lane near Clover. May Green Properties wants 72 homes, up from an approved 65, plus a 50-foot road known as Short Stroll Court. The total site is 130 acres. The site is across from Clover Middle School.
▪ Vermilyea Place comes back up for subdivision review. JCM Corp. of York County wants to put 11 new homes on more than 31 acres south of S.C. 5, between Shiloh and Eastview roads. The project was approved prior for nine homes.
▪ The commission also will vote on whether to recommend the I-77 corridor study to York County Council. Last summer council voted to create several new study areas to help steer economic growth, quality of life and other decisions in key areas. The I-77 South Corridor was one. The planning commission will review a draft Feb. 10.
This story was originally published February 10, 2020 at 7:00 AM.
