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Commission defers Heavy Industrial rezoning for Trash Girl operations after staff raises land‑use and buffer concerns
Summary
Berkeley County planning staff recommended denying a Heavy Industrial rezoning request for properties on Cypress Garden Road, and the Planning Commission deferred the items to allow the applicant time to work with staff on a more limited site plan and buffering.
Berkeley County planning staff recommended denying a request to rezone roughly 33.9 acres on Cypress Garden Road to Heavy Industrial (HI), citing inconsistency with the county’s 2020 comprehensive plan, proximity to suburban residential areas and the absence of a site plan showing how potential industrial uses would be buffered. Planning commissioners deferred the two related items to the next meeting to allow the applicant to meet with staff.
Staff’s presentation said one parcel in the assemblage already contains roughly 3–5 acres zoned HI and that the applicant (Prestige Commercial Properties/Jeff Paluta) has indicated an intent to expand existing Trash Girl operations and to pursue state permits for a waste-tire…
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