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Greenwood BZA approves Fairfield Inn variances, OKs church garage and denies hospital sign increase
Summary
At its Nov. 24 meeting the Greenwood Board of Zoning Appeals approved a reduced front‑setback and a conditional transparency variance for a proposed Fairfield Inn, granted a church an accessory‑structure variance for a maintenance garage, and denied a request to increase directional sign size at Valdosta Hospital. All votes were 5–0.
The Greenwood Board of Zoning Appeals on Nov. 24 approved two variances for a proposed Fairfield Inn hotel and granted an accessory‑structure variance for a church maintenance garage, while denying a separate request to enlarge directional signs at Valdosta Hospital.
Engineer Lee Gensick, representing the hotel project and speaking for the petitioner (Sonia Saleem on behalf of High Point Lodging), told the board the 4‑story Fairfield Inn would sit on a constrained 2‑acre corner lot near the I‑65 interchange and that franchise standards constrained door locations and the portico. “This hotel is gonna be a Fairfield Inn, which is a Marriott product,” Gensick said as he described the site layout and the reasons the team sought two variances: a reduction in the front (north) setback from 60 feet to 46 feet for the portico and a reduction in…
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