The Columbia County Board of Commissioners have a proposed quick-service restaurant at Mullins Colony on the agenda for its next meeting.
Hull Property Group and property-owners HSG Brown Hill are requesting a variance for a parcel at 720 Province Way, the northernmost outparcel of the Mullins Colony shopping plaza. Developers are asking to remove the maximum building setback from Washington Road.
The narrative document claims the variance is needed because the parcel is shaped in such a way that it narrows at its front property line adjoining Washington Road, limiting buildable space in the allowed area between the setbacks.
The applicants’ plan for the outparcel includes a free-standing building with more than 2,000-square feet of proposed restaurant space—with a quick-service pick up lane—and more than 3,000 square feet of proposed retail space. The plan also shows the structure at 168 feet from the centerline of Washington Road, rather than the required 125-foot maximum setback.
At the May 4 meeting of the Columbia County Planning Commission, Chris Stratton spoke on behalf of Hull Property Group that has tenants lined up for the property.
Faith Outreach Church is looking to expand its west campus at 102 S. Belair Road in Martinez. Faith Outreach has owned the Martinez property since 2017 and has a south Augusta campus on Willis Foreman Road in Hephzibah.
The church has requested conditional use to accommodate a 10,000 square foot addition to the 9,400 square foot building on site, for “classes and worship,” according to the application.
Both items were recommended for approval by the Planning Commission on May 4 and are to be considered by the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, May 16.
The Columbia County Planning Commission’s next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 18, but at press time, the few items slated for the recommending board are not to be heard until the first of next month.
Ivey Development has submitted a request for a major revision of the third section of its planned residential development, Tillery Park, along Baker Place Road.
While the developers aim to keep the approved lot count of the overall subdivision at 871 lots, the narrative accompanying the request proposes a revision to the lot and street layout of Area 3, to “more adequately protect the buffer along the adjacent state waters,” according to the narrative document.
“Pulling the lots further away from the state waters also provides the necessary space for grading and the creation of lots with usable full depth,” said the narrative, which notes that the residential lots could end up with shallow or sloped backyards, otherwise.
The current version of the Tillery Park plans shows a total of 56 lots in Area 3: 29 50-foot lots, 12 60-foot and 15 at 70 feet.
The proposed revision would reduce the number to 49 lots: 18 at 50 feet, 16 at 60 feet and 15 at 70 feet.
The major revision request also includes a new plan for the subdivision’s entrance concept that includes a whitewashed brick wall with the Tillery Park logo in backlit, metallic lettering.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
