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West Columbia council approves zoning and annexation measures, updates jury list and enters executive session
Summary
City council unanimously approved a zoning ordinance amendment to allow self-storage in light and heavy manufacturing districts, multiple annexations and first-reading rezoning and overlay requests, approved the 2025 municipal court jury list and adjourned into executive session on economic development.
The City of West Columbia City Council on an unspecified January meeting unanimously approved a second-reading amendment to the city zoning ordinance to permit self-storage warehouses in the LM (Light Manufacturing) and HM (Heavy Manufacturing) districts, approved an annexation of 2.92 acres at 2806 Leapart Road, approved the municipal court jury list for calendar year 2025, took first-reading votes on a rezoning at 1640 Airport Boulevard and an infill overlay on a parcel along Charleston Highway, approved first reading to annex 101 Pinecrest Avenue, and then adjourned into executive session for economic development updates under South Carolina Code Annotated 30-4-70(a)(2).
The council approved second reading of the planning commission—s recommendation to amend the City of West Columbia zoning ordinance to list self-storage (warehouse/self-storage) as a permitted use in LM and HM zoning districts. The motion carried with unanimous approval; the transcript records the action as —unanimously approved— but does not list individual roll-call votes.
The council moved quickly through other business. It approved an ordinance on second reading to annex approximately 2.92 acres (tax map number 004599-09-009-009), a motion to adopt the City of West Columbia Municipal Court jury list for 2025, and a first-reading rezoning request for a 2.25-acre parcel at 1640 Airport Boulevard (tax map number 005742-01-006) from C-2 General Commercial to LM Light Manufacturing. All of those motions were recorded as approved unanimously in the meeting transcript; the transcript does not capture individual vote names or tallies.
On a separate first-reading item, planning staff described a proposal tied to establishment of an infill overlay district on a 0.34-acre parcel on Charleston Highway (tax map 004632-03-002), in a C-3 Restricted Commercial zone. Planning staff told the council the applicant plans to subdivide the property and develop each resulting lot as duplex units. "Their plan is to subdivide the parcel and to develop each parcel into duplex units," a planning staff member said. The staff member added each proposed lot would be about 7,405 square feet, just under the 7,500-square-foot minimum the overlay requires for a duplex, a difference of roughly 100 square feet per parcel. The council approved first reading of the overlay district.
Councilors also approved first reading of an ordinance to annex a parcel at 101 Pinecrest Avenue (tax map 004531-02-008). A staff explanation noted there is no specific development plan at this time: "Actually, nothing right now. It was previously a business. It's a residential business ... they just want to get ready to be able to market it for some sort of commercial, maybe a QSR or some retail," the transcript records. The council approved first reading.
After completing the agenda items, the council unanimously adjourned into an executive session to discuss economic development updates under South Carolina Code Annotated 30-4-70(a)(2). The mayor told the room he did not anticipate taking action after the executive session but left open the possibility.
Votes at a glance: all recorded motions on the transcript were approved unanimously; the transcript does not list individual roll-call names or numeric tallies for those approvals.
Officials and staff quoted in the meeting transcript included a planning staff member who described the Charleston Highway subdivision plan. The transcript records approvals as unanimous but does not provide individual council vote records.
