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Planning staff recommends review of legacy-use request for restored 1950s general store on Union Hill Road
Summary
Owners of a restored J.B. Mathis General Store on Union Hill Road requested a legacy-use designation to operate a coffee house and gift shop; the application seeks variances to reduce required parking and avoid a deceleration lane while preserving the building’s historic footprint.
Owners John and LaChelle Thompson asked Cherokee County on April 15 to approve a legacy-use designation for a restored 1950s general store at 4651 Union Hill Road to operate a coffee house and gift shop, and to grant two concurrent variances related to parking and the roadway.
Planning staff told commissioners the building was constructed in the 1950s as the J.B. Mathis General Store and remains a single-story, roughly 1,200-square-foot cinder-block structure. Staff said the property’s historical ties include the nearby Union Hill Community Church and the…
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