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 hearing set for Feb. 11

Developers present results from soil tests, traffic study

FEBRUARY 2, 2010 2:17 p.m. (0)

A small truck with a six-inch wide drill suspended off its back may have spelled the end to a fight over a proposed apartment complex on Augusta Road Tuesday morning.

The drill did eight borings into a bluff next to Augusta Heights Baptist Church that developers plan to build 37-units on and that area residents have been fighting since last spring when the project first went public.  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 halted

Restraining order issued, new hearing set for March 24

MARCH 19, 2010 8:12 a.m. (0)

A controversial plan to build a subsidized government housing apartment complex on Augusta Road is a no go – for now.

Preserve Augusta Road Gateway, Inc., a group of homeowners and business owners, has appealed a Greenville City Planning Commission decision to allow Prestwick Development Company to build a 37-unit apartment complex at 3018 Augusta St., land owned by August Heights Baptist Church.  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...