Indecision reigns over Augusta Road plan

Planning Commission wants traffic, rock study on proposed apartments

JANUARY 15, 2010 10:34 a.m. (0)

The Planning Commission hearing on a proposed Augusta Road apartment complex was like a 15-round heavyweight title fight that ended with no decision Thursday.

In one corner was an Atlanta-based developer pushing for 37 state-subsidized apartments on a 2.5 acre piece of land belonging to a local church. In the other were close to 175 people representing close to 800 more who signed a petition in the last few months to block the proposal.

The setting was a first-ever test of the city’s new zoning laws regarding apartment complexes that require more stringent guidelines and citizen input, but any decision was rendered moot on a technicality.  Continue reading...

 

Augusta Heights project a go

Developers win battle to build apartment complex

FEBRUARY 11, 2010 10:00 p.m. (0)

More than six months of contentious public outcry, 120 minutes of open debate, 38 minutes of closed debate and 10 minutes of technical questions over a proposed housing development on Augusta Road ended in less than three seconds Thursday as the planning commission voted 4-3 to pass the project.

In play was the commission’s first ruling on a new comprehensive planning code that put more emphasis on public debate of proposed developments inside city limits under the guise of a 37-unit, two-story project located on a bluff overlooking one of Greenville’s main corridors.  Continue reading...

 

Augusta Heights project under way

APRIL 30, 2010 9:52 a.m. (1)

Prestwick Development closed on the 2.5 acre plot that will be home to a 37-unit low-income apartment complex on April 15, eight days after a circuit court judge refused to grant an injunction on work at the site on April 7.

The sale price was $570,000 according to Greenville County records.  Continue reading...

 

Plans for school on Wyche property approved

Traffic impact to be reviewed within a year after opening

JUNE 23, 2011 8:37 a.m. (0)

Former Camperdown Academy headmaster Dana Blackhurst will be allowed to turn the Wyche House property on Augusta Street into a small private school and community park.

The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals granted a special exception to the residential zoning classification for the property at 2900 Augusta St. to allow a school with no more than 90 students.

School officials are required to meet with the city’s traffic engineers within a year of opening to evaluate the school’s traffic impact and to try to rectify any traffic safety concerns. If an agreement can’t be reached between the city and the school on ways to fix traffic safety concerns, the Board of Zoning Appeals will make a decision.  Continue reading...

 

Augusta Road residents, businesses look to the future

Area just outside downtown aims for balance

DECEMBER 21, 2011 5:54 p.m. (0)

If Greenville’s commercial corridors were family members, Augusta Street would be a family’s well-to-do, quirky aunt.

“Augusta Street is unique to the city,” said Tracy Ramseur, the city’s development coordinator for the city’s economic development department who grew up in the area just outside of downtown and the West End. “There’s really no other area quite like it.”

Augusta has been called the city’s “boutique” with locally owned businesses that have been there for generations, such as Pickwick Pharmacy and The Grey Goose, and businesses that have opened recently, such as Zoe’s Kitchen.  Continue reading...