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Planning commission approves east-side buffer waiver for Jim Bethel church parking expansion
Summary
The Greenwood Advisory Planning Commission unanimously approved a waiver to omit the 40-foot buffer yard along the church's east property line, citing heavy existing tree cover and stormwater maintenance needs; the waiver applies only to the east boundary and requires perimeter plantings elsewhere.
The Greenwood Advisory Planning Commission voted 9-0 to grant a landscape-buffer waiver for the Jim Bethel Christian Church site, allowing no 40-foot large-size buffer yard along the church's east boundary where it abuts an RM-zoned, heavily wooded property. Richard Claiborne, appearing on behalf of the church, told the commission the church is enlarging its parking and installing subsurface drainage and that, because of existing site conditions including a steep, wooded ravine and stormwater access needs, the petitioner seeks permission to use…
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