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Dorchester County council approves townhouse rezonings and exempts interior townhouse lots from width‑to‑depth rule
Summary
Council unanimously moved rezoning requests and adopted a text amendment to the county zoning code exempting interior townhouse lots from the lot width‑to‑depth ratio, a change staff said will align rules with contemporary townhouse lots and reduce repeated waiver requests.
Dorchester County Council voted unanimously Oct. 6 to advance a set of zoning actions that will make it easier to build townhouses in parts of the county and to rezone several small parcels for residential use.
Planning staff told the council the package includes Rezoning Request 934, a request to change approximately 1.83 acres near Latson Road in the Ladson/Somerville area from General Commercial (CG) to Single Family Attached District (R3) to allow townhouse development. Staff said the existing platted lots — roughly 20 feet by 110 feet — meet townhouse lot‑size requirements (minimum 20 feet and a minimum of about 1,500 square feet) but will…
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