Developer seeks plan-development zoning for Heddle Hill site; neighbors warn 600-unit cap would strain roads and schools

UCP Heddle Greenville LLC asked Greenville County on a public hearing night to rezone about 50.05 acres on Rutherford Road from industrial and services districts to a PD (plan development) that would allow mixed commercial uses and new residential development, including up to 600 dwelling units under one potential future configuration.

The request matters to residents because, if approved as proposed, later phases could permit a maximum of 600 total units without additional public rezoning review. Neighbors and community groups said that scale of housing would worsen already-congested intersections, stress local schools and infrastructure, and risk environmental impacts to wetlands and Mountain Creek.

Nathan Kirkman, representing the applicant, said the revised proposal responds to county staff and neighborhood feedback and narrows earlier language that had used the term "light industrial." "In our previous application, we used the term, light industrial… and that was not our intent," he told the council, saying the team shifted toward "industrial services" uses and made changes to site design,…