Planning commission forwards multiple routine annexations, rezones and service requests to city council

The City of Aiken Planning Commission on Jan. 14 forwarded a series of routine annexation, rezoning and city-service requests to the City Council, voting unanimously on most items after brief presentations and little public opposition.

The items included multiple small-property annexation requests for Conger Drive addresses (applications 25-20013, 25-20014, 25-20015 and 25-20016), all recommending annexation into the city with RS-15 single-family zoning; a rezone request for city-owned parcels on Williamsburg Street from Light Industrial to DB (application 25-6004); a rezoning amendment for 223 East Boundary Avenue that was amended on the floor from proposed RML to RS-6 and recommended to council (application 25-6003); and several city-service requests to provide water and/or sewer to county developments (notably applications 25-5003, 25-5006, 25-5007 and 25-5008). The commission also recommended denial-as-contributing and to forward a non-contributing recommendation to council for the Hitchcock stables property (see separate article), and separately took up other contested…