Commissioners review multiple rezoning and site-plan requests, including 69-acre industrial proposal by Paul Grama Business Park LLC

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners discussed multiple planning and zoning items at its Sept. 16 work session, including a 69-acre rezoning request for a business park near the county transfer station, a request to remove long-standing zoning conditions on industrial land near the airport, a postponed self-storage application, and two multi-parcel annexation/rezoning matters that drew interjurisdictional scrutiny.

Parks Hough / Paul Grama Business Park LLC (rezoning request)

Planning staff described a request to rezone roughly 69 acres from R80 (residential) to light industrial for a speculative business park across from the county transfer station and landfill and with frontage on Coker's Chapel Road and East Cherokee Drive. Planner Thomas Pray (staff) said the Planning Commission recommended denial; staff flagged streams, topography and floodplain on the site and noted that the current plan shows about 325,000 square feet of industrial buildings in up to 10 structures with separate access points. The developer proposed full-access drives on Coker's Chapel and East Cherokee; staff cited community concern about industrial access on Coker's Chapel and the need for intersection and entrance improvements.

Planning staff said the applicant had received a letter of neighbor support from the Pinions but that the project raises questions about whether the whole site can be served from East Cherokee Drive only, or whether limited…