New developments that may be on the horizon in Augusta include a mobile home park in south Augusta, a shopping center in west Augusta and townhomes off Stevens Creek Road.
Jeb Boggus has applied to rezone five properties he owns along Mike Padgett Highway totaling some 43 acres from Agricultural and Light Industrial to Manufactured Home Residential. Boggus aims to build a manufactured home park on the parcels comprised of 249 units with a minimum lot size of 4,000 square feet. This would give the park a density of approximately 5.8 homes per acre.
According to the petition’s accompanying narrative document, the park will also have an office at its southern entrance, an internal road system and two recreational areas at its center, totaling roughly four acres. These would include an area for “passive adult recreation,” a playground areas for both toddlers and older children and a fenced-in dog park, all maintained by the owner. There would also be more than five acres of open space surrounding the park.
On the other side of town, near Fort Gordon’s recently closed Gate 2, CSRA Capital Holdings is looking to build a retail center consisting of eight 1,100 square foot units and one 4,400-square foot anchor unit. The North Augusta-based developer has requested to rezone two parcels totaling just over an acre along East Robinson Avenue from Agricultural to General Business.
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The property is situated on an outlier along a stretch of the corridor extending from the Columbia County line, and a portion of the proposed shopping center would sit within the City of Grovetown. The proposed cluster of stores would have access points in both Columbia and Richmond counties, along Pepperhill Drive and Captain Drive respectively.
A vacant five-acre tract some 300 feet southwest of the intersection of Mayo and Stevens Creek Roads is the subject of a rezoning request by Bourne Properties of Augusta. The “Mayo Road Townhomes” project would consist of 36 attached units, divided into eight structures of six units each. The end units would be about 30 feet wide, and interior units 25 feet, according to the current concept plan.
The developer is seeking to rezone from R-1A to R-1E single-family residential to accommodate these plans. The Augusta Commission granted a special exception to allow a single-family residential units not exceeding four per acre, provided the “minimum building line on all lots fronting Mayo Road be no less than 30 feet,” for a development project that ultimately never materialized.
The Augusta Planning Commission is scheduled to hear these requests at its next meeting on Monday, March 6 at 3 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
