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Votes at a glance: City approves consent items, joint government center transfers and billboard moratorium
Summary
At its December meeting, Spartanburg City Council approved routine consent items, authorized transfer of city parcels to Spartanburg County for a joint government center, awarded a Phase 2 resurfacing bid, and enacted a 12-month moratorium on permitting new off-premise advertising signs while a zoning interpretation is adjudicated.
Spartanburg City Council approved several routine and substantive items in a meeting that combined holiday remarks and public comments with multiple formal actions.
Council voted unanimously to approve the November meeting minutes and to adopt the December meeting agenda. The body also approved the consent agenda items A and B without recorded dissent.
On a motion and second, council authorized staff to proceed with awarding the low bid for street resurfacing Phase 2 to Cherokee Landscaping and Grading Company for $2,038,464.79 and permitted the city manager to negotiate contract terms; staff estimated completion around 90 days weather-dependent.
Council approved an ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute documents transferring city-owned parcels to Spartanburg County to facilitate construction of a new joint government center. Staff described the facility as approximately 215,000 square feet with an adjacent roughly 1,000-space parking structure and a prominent clock tower feature; construction was projected to take about 24 months. Officials noted the project was authorized by a 2017 referendum.
Separately, council approved Ordinance B to pause permitting of off-premise advertising signs (billboards) for 12 months while a challenge to the 2011 zoning ordinance interpretation proceeds through the Board of Zoning Appeals and potentially circuit court. Planning staff said the pause would give time to clarify interpretation and incorporate any findings into a full zoning ordinance rewrite; staff said the city’s 2011 inventory of billboards dropped from 55 to about 37 over time and that an applicant had appealed a denial of a permit.
All listed motions carried with votes recorded on the meeting floor as 'ayes' and 'Ayes have it.' No roll-call tallies with member-by-member votes were recorded in the available transcript.
