Planning commission approves preliminary PUD for 45,000‑sq‑ft Walmart at Honey Farm Crossing with signage, fence conditions

The Columbia Municipal Planning Commission approved a preliminary planned‑unit development request for a 45,000‑square‑foot Walmart at Honey Farm Crossing, a 7.49‑acre parcel at the northeast corner of Nashville Highway and Honey Farm Way.

Commissioners voted to grant multiple deviations from the city’s zoning ordinance for the planned development, but required the developer to remove a proposed branded ‘‘side wall’’ on the south elevation and to work with staff on more durable privacy‑fence materials along the north boundary.

Staff planner Austin Brass said the project had been revised several times and ‘‘has come a very long way’’ toward meeting ordinance standards. Brass described the site plan and landscape plan in detail, noting the project meets several major requirements: an internal drive section with two 11‑foot travel lanes and a continuous sidewalk, parking‑lot landscaping and perimeter hedge rows, and primary facade materials of…