Dr. Timothy Tippett, of Tippett Eye Care Center, aims to build a new medical office as well as a multi-use development in the Ivy Falls of Grovetown.
Earlier this month, Tippett submitted a rezoning request to Columbia County Planning, petitioning for a revision of the planned unit development, or PUD, zoning of some 15 acres he owns along Columbia Road.
The accompanying documents convey intentions to develop the tracts of land northeast of the Patriots Ridge subdivision with commercial, professional and even residential space.
The narrative notes that most of the residential areas in the original Ivy Falls Plantation planned unit development’s 412 acres has been developed, leaving about 20 acres of mixed-use area undeveloped.
“Dr. Tippett requests to only amend his 15.9 acres of the existing PUD,” says the narrative document, going on to refer to an amendment made by Brian G. Besson and Associates in 2004 that made those acres a “commercial area.”
Tippett’s proposed PUD would entail developing on nine parcels, including a medical office with additional office space totaling 14,000 square feet; a 5,000 square foot restaurant; 31,500 square feet for “indoor recreation,” and 7,500 square feet devoted to retail space and 12 townhomes.
A pond southeast of the site is to provide stormwater detention, and utilities would draw from resources along Columbia Road.
The narrative projects that, after zoning approval, engineers would start designing driveways and internal roads in spring of 2023, followed by construction of the medical office, with other parcels being put on the market and developed as they are purchased. It expects completion by winter of 2025.
The revision request is scheduled to be heard by the Columbia County Planning Commission on Jan. 5
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
