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Council passes zoning and solicitation ordinance changes, amends rural country club zoning and guest lodging limits
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Summary
Council approved multiple ordinance actions: a joint industrial park housekeeping amendment (10a), a rezoning (10b), a ZLDR amendment for rural golf/country clubs including a 20,000‑sq‑ft guest lodge allowance (10c), and an amended solicitation/panhandling code that preserves permitted charitable solicitation while keeping prohibitions (10d).
Kershaw County Council advanced and adopted multiple ordinances during its April 14 meeting. Highlights:
- Ordinance 10a (first reading): A housekeeping amendment to clean up the joint industrial park/development designations between Kershaw and Fairfield counties passed on first reading. Staff characterized it as a boundary and MCIP‑status update tied to earlier economic development incentives.
- Ordinance 10b (second reading): Council unanimously approved a second reading to amend the official zoning map for a roughly 32‑acre parcel on Youngs Bend Road to general development to support business expansion.
- Ordinance 10c (second reading; ZLDR amendment): Council addressed conditional use rules for rural golf/country club developments. Legal staff and applicant representatives noted a scrivener’s correction and clarified a conflict‑of‑law provision. Councilman Cato moved—and council adopted—an amendment that included the applicant’s requested change to allow a 20,000‑square‑foot guest lodge (an increase from a previous figure) and added staff lodging parameters (8,000 square feet and a maximum unit count). After the amendment, council passed the ordinance on second reading as amended.
- Ordinance 10d (second reading; solicitation and panhandling): Council adopted a second‑reading amendment that clarifies permitted solicitation: the packet explicitly allows the issuance of permits for rescue squads, volunteer fire squads and registered 501(c)(3) groups while affirming that permitted solicitation is not generally subject to the ordinance’s prohibitions. Legal staff said the explicit clarification removes doubt about existing code allowances for permitted charitable solicitations.
Representatives for the applicants and county legal staff were present for multiple agenda items. Council thanks and brief exchange followed the votes, and no roll‑call tallies beyond unanimous voice votes were recorded in the public transcript.
