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Planning board recommends second reading for three rezoning requests along Highway 78 and Orangeburg Road
Summary
Dorchester County planning staff recommended—and the Planning & Development Board unanimously recommended second reading for—three rezoning requests affecting about 22.22 acres in the Ridgeville and Somerville corridors.
Dorchester County planning staff on March 3 recommended—and the Planning & Development Board unanimously recommended second reading for—three separate rezoning requests affecting about 22.22 acres in the Ridgeville and Somerville corridors.
The requests are: rezoning request No. 926 (Jake Penry) to rezone 13.84 acres on Highway 78 near Ridgeville (TMS 098-00-00-090) from Agricultural Residential (AR) to Commercial Light Industrial (CLI); rezoning request No. 927 (George Tupper III) to rezone 6.26 acres on 754 Orangeburg Road near Somerville (TMS 144-00-00-03-178) from Single‑Family Residential District R‑2 to Neighborhood Commercial (CN); and rezoning request No. 928 (Janet Lieber) to rezone 2.12 acres on Highway 78 near Ridgeville (TMS 098-00-00-240) from AR to CLI.
Planning staff said the Highway 78 parcels sit in an employment/mixed‑use corridor…
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