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County approves Dollar General buffering variance and waives two‑year reapplication wait for lot split
Summary
Planning staff described an approved variance to perimeter landscaping requirements for a Dollar General under construction; commissioners also waived the county’s two-year reapplication bar to allow the developer to seek a lot split. Residents raised safety concerns about retention-pond fencing and bright lighting.
Washington County commissioners approved a variance to landscape-buffering requirements for a new Dollar General store on Corbin Road and waived the county’s two-year waiting period that normally bars reapplication after a denied lot split.
Planning staffer Miss McDonald told the board the Terramore Development LLC project sits on a 4.99-acre parcel in northeast Washington County and that construction is already under way. The developer requested relief from required Type A and perimeter buffers on the north and east sides of the property, proposing a narrower planting strip plus a six-foot privacy fence in places previously approved with wider vegetative buffers.
McDonald said the planning commission recommended…
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