Augusta’s Housing and Community Development Department is looking to redevelop a block on the Laney Walker-Bethlehem area into condos.
The department has submitted a rezoning request to the city’s planning department, petitioning to rezone six lots on Twelfth Street, between Florence and Mauge Streets, from R-1C One-family Residential to R-3A Multi-family Residential.
Housing and Development’s plan entails consolidating the parcels, owned by the Augusta Land Bank and totaling about an acre, into one lot for a proposed complex of 10 attached townhome units, separated into two clusters of five homes each.
The homes are to be 1,500 square feet each, two-stories, made with vertical batten board, holding three bedrooms and two and a half baths, front-loaded single garages and fenced backyards.
In the rezoning petition’s letter of intent, Housing and Development Director Hawthorne Welcher states that the project aims to address the pressing housing shortage in the area. Welcher also notes that the homes would be “registered as condominiums for selling purposes.”
The Augusta Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the rezoning in its meeting on May 6.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
