Circle K is planning to build and open a new gas station on Columbia Road in Grovetown.
On May 12, a representative of Atlanta-based civil engineering firm Kimley-Horn applied to rezone a three-acre parcel at 5607 Columbia Road from R-A Residential Agricultural to C-C Community Commercial.
Carboy Quarry Properties LLC, based in Sedona, Ariz., Paul V. Davis Jr. Family Properties LLC, whose principal office is located in Isle of Palms, S.C., and one Mary Ann Godwin of Tarrytown, N.Y., all share ownership of the undeveloped property.
Plans include a 5,200 square foot building for the convenience store, fueling pumps, a stormwater pond and a 4,000 square foot septic drain field.
The rezoning petition also includes two variance requests, one of which is to eliminate the required 30-foot structural buffer along the north and west property line.
Kimley-Horn engineer Harrison Aiken notes in the narrative document that “the west property line borders R-A, but is primarily bound by an existing access road,” and so the developers are seeking to eliminate the west buffer to due this existing road and circulation, and the north buffer because of the proposed stormwater pond.
“The road acts as a buffer to the west,” said Aiken in the application addendum. “A structural buffer reduces the usable area and would impact the site layout. To the north, the stormwater pond provides [a] significant buffer between the residential use and requiring a structural buffer would reduce the amount of usable area on this site.”
The plans also currently entail a 10-foot landscape buffer on the north and west property lines.
The other variance request is to allow the fueling station to operate for 24 hours rather than from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Columbia County Planning Commission is scheduled to hear the requestion at its June 15 meeting.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
