As the Richmond County Planning Commission prepares to address another attempt by developers to build a complex of townhomes along Pleasant Home Road, its counterpart in Columbia County is set to review an apartment site on Indigo Hall Drive.
Brentwood, Tn.-based Winterpast Capital Partners submitted a rezoning request last month to the Columbia County Planning Department, petitioning to revise the S-1 Special zoning at 2221 Indigo Dr., at the intersection of Indigo Hall and Furys Ferry Road.
The parcel of concern is part of Winterpast’s proposed senior living community, called Indigo Hall. The campus of the planned retirement development would be spread across some 40 acres, and include senior living cottages and independent living units, medical offices, a skilled care nursing home and an assisted living and memory facility.
This special zoning request concerns one of the independent living facilities, a building with more than 170 one and two-bedroom apartments, and amenities such as a dog park, a pool and a summer kitchen.
The request seeks to change the approved maximum height of the building from 30 feet to 60 feet, to accommodate a gabled pitch roof.
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“We believe a pitched gable roof fits better within the aesthetics of the surrounding community,” said the accompanying narrative document, which then noted that buildings on adjacent properties have pitched roofs.
The variance request also asks to allow the front portion of the complex be built with a fourth floor below the finished grade of the three-story building.
Gracewood Farms, LLC is seeking to rezone just over two acres of its property at 3981 Mullikin Rd. in order to build a clubhouse for its Timber Creek subdivision. The property is currently zoned R-1 Residential. The owning developer proposes to subdivide the clubhouse tract off the larger parcel and rezone to S-1 Special.
The “Manor at Timber Creek” would be 5,000 square feet, with a maximum capacity of 150 people, with an accompanying pickleball court, and a walking trail leading to the clubhouse connected to the Timber Creek Trail.
Gracewood Farms intends for the Special zoning district “to provide for the proper placement of private, semiprivate and public uses which require special consideration,” according to its narrative document.
If approved, both developments have projected completion dates in late 2023. Both are scheduled for public hearings at the Columbia County Planning Commission’s meeting on Nov. 17.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
