Hunter Trail variance pitched as workforce-housing pilot amid debate over fee waivers and AMI requirements

Jan 20, 2026

A developer request to build 16 cottages on 1.38 acres prompted commissioners to frame the project as a workforce-housing pilot and to consider tying variances and fee waivers to an 80% AMI owner-occupancy requirement; staff described two variance requests and an alternate tree plan and said current applicants have already received multiple extensions.

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At a Jan. 20 work session, Cherokee County planning staff outlined an application by Fred Snell for Hunter Trail LLC that asks the Board of Commissioners for two variances to allow 16 single-family detached homes on a 1.38-acre site on Redbarn Road.

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