Mobile City in Grovetown is seeking revisions to accommodate expansion of its trailer park.
The mobile unit development, owned by Feliz Home Communities, has submitted to the Columbia County planning department a request to revise the S-1 special zoning at the nine-acre parcel at 3566 Gordon Hwy. Mobile City aims to add three new lots to the park.
The narrative document accompanying the request notes that in 2011 the county approved rezoning the tract from R-A Residential Agricultural to S-1, along with three additional mobile home lots.
The document goes on to say that an official plot survey laying out the new lots and their setback rules was never conducted by a surveyor, and that the approved site plan was not to scale. The developers discovered that the property couldn’t add the three lots within accordance with the setback rules in the county ordinances.
The document also says that a previous owner installed a septic drain field in one of the spots where a home was to be developed.
“Drain fields cannot have a structure over them, and moving the drain field poses even more complicated issues,” said the document issued by Feliz Homes.
Mobile City currently has some 29 dwelling units, which the applicant mentions were built in the 1970’s, “and lack all the modern amenities we want to offer to our residents.” The company says that the requested plan updates would allow for two new 16 by 60 foot home units and one 16 by 50 foot unit.
The Columbia County Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the item on Dec. 7. Feliz Homes estimates should the request be approved, new septic tanks will be installed later that month, and that the new homes would be ready for residents to move in by Valentine’s Day next year.
A timber company is looking to set up shop on its property along Wrightsboro Road in Appling.
Cross Creek Timberlands, owned by Tyler Verdery of Verdery Forest Management, has submitted a request to rezone a 3.89-acre parcel along Wrightsboro from planned unit development (PUD) to Residential Agricultural zoning, for use as a timber management facility.
The foresting company submitted the request with a plat illustration prepared by H & C Surveying for Pumpkin Center Properties, which once owned the parcel and is currently developing a PUD along Appling Harlem Road.
The Planning Commission to also scheduled to consider Cross Creek’s request in its Dec. 7 meeting.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
