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Planning commission discusses tightening planned-development rules, tree preservation and mass-grading limits
Summary
Commissioners debated clarifying planned-development (PD) rules to require a percent of commercial mixed use, updating PD design standards, and adding tree-preservation rules and a preferred-species list; mass-grading provisions were described as complex and may require outside drafting help.
The planning commission discussed revising Edgefield County’s planned-development (PD) rules to better reflect the state statute’s intended “mixed-use” concept and to add clearer local requirements for commercial components in PDs.
Commission members raised concerns that PDs have been used to allow developments that are entirely residential and that the state law’s term “mixed use” is vague. One commissioner said: “When I read the state law and it says mixed use, yes, I take that to mean residential and commercial,” and recommended…
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