Council approves zoning, event permits, equipment purchases and other measures; summary of votes

City of West Columbia City Council recorded votes on a slate of items ranging from ceremonial proclamations to zoning approvals, abandoned-building certifications, event permits and capital purchases.

Votes at a glance: - Proclamation: International Women’s Leaders in Business Day (proclaimed for March 8, 2025) — approved unanimously. - Resolution recognizing Vanessa Moda — approved unanimously. - Minutes: Approval of special and regular meeting minutes (1/27/2025 and 2/4/2025) — approved unanimously. - Second reading: Planning Commission recommendation to establish a Planned Unit Development (PUDC) for approximately 3.15 acres at 620 Sunset Boulevard (Tax map 004665-05-010011) — approved unanimously. - Waiver: Waive $300 rental fee for Wyman C. MacRae Amphitheatre for Kirkin of the Tartan (event representative: John Banks) — approved unanimously. - Special event / street closure: Authorization for public consumption of alcohol and temporary road closure for Art on State (May 9, 2025) — approved; the transcript recorded inconsistent tallies (at one point the chair said “passes 8 to 1” and later “7 to 1”). - Ordinance/resolution amendments: Amend Title 7 of West Columbia Code related to transportation facilities — approved unanimously. - Zoning ordinance amendment: Amend city zoning ordinance addressing nursing and residential care facilities — approved unanimously. - Abandoned buildings certification: Resolution certifying four building sites as abandoned pursuant to the South Carolina Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act (addresses: 104 Augusta Street; 326 Alexander Road; two additional parcels as listed by tax map numbers in Lexington County) — approved unanimously. - Procurement/contract authority: Approve Wharton Smith Inc. as construction manager at risk for Riverside filtration improvements and authorize city administrator to negotiate agreements — approved unanimously (separate article covers this item in detail). - Procurement/sole source: Approve Spartan Fire and Emergency Apparatus Inc. as sole-source provider for a Pierce 107 PUC Quint ladder truck in the amount of $2,090,762 and authorize the city administrator to negotiate purchase agreement — approved unanimously. - First readings / zoning items: First-reading considerations to establish zoning C-2 for parcel at 2806 Leapart Road (2.92 acres) and C-2 LM split zoning for property at 38–44 Stetrotter Road (3.07 acres) — both approved on first reading unanimously. - Executive session: Council voted to adjourn into executive session to receive legal advice and discuss planned revenue bonds and a utility rate report pursuant to South Carolina Code Annotated §30-4-70(a)(2) — council voted to adjourn into executive session unanimously.

Where the transcript recorded vote counts, the article reports them as spoken at the meeting; where the record shows only “unanimously approved,” the votes were not televised or otherwise tallied in the transcript beyond the chair’s call for hands. The Art on State tally was recorded inconsistently in the live transcript; the clerk or chair later corrected or clarified the count on the record.