Developers plan to add a new auto service shop along the Lewiston Road corridor in Grovetown.
Augusta-based Murray Brothers Land Development has requested the Columbia County planning department allow a change of conditions permitting a new free-standing sign at its property at 428 Lewiston Road.
The subject tract, which sits near the intersection of Lewiston Road and William Few Parkway, comprises just over one of four acres of land owned by Murray Brothers, currently the site of an AutoZone car parts store and a LongHorn Steakhouse—at 430 and 434 Lewiston Road., respectively.
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Jefferson Murray of Murray Brothers, states in the accompanying narrative that the developers initially thought that only these two businesses would set up on the property, and so had only applied for permission to erect two free standing signs.
The remaining one-acre parcel is now the future location of a Valvoline Instant Oil Change service center. The proposed signage would be eight feet tall, a little more than five feet wide and more than two feet thick, with the business’ logo atop Northampton brick.
Two neighboring parcels, 4070 Jimmie Dyess Pkwy. and 4394 Ridge Pointe Drive, totaling less than an acre, are both the subject of a conditional use request to build a new liquor store.
The applicant, Pranav Patel, is asking permission to build a 5,000 square foot “off premise package store,” noting in the application that the Jimmie Dyess commercial corridor is “busy with like areas.”
In 2022, Patel was one of the applicants who unsuccessfully sought to open a liquor store on Furys Ferry Road in Evans amid Columbia County’s then-proposed ordinance restricting liquor store locations.
The Columbia County Planning Commission is scheduled to consider both items in its meeting on Thursday, April 18.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
