Council approves eight public‑hearing items, including rezoning request for 806 LC Drive

The City of Charleston council approved eight public‑hearing items on April 23, voting to bundle and accept items 1 through 8.

Christopher Morgan, city planning staff, presented the first item — a request to rezone 806 LC Drive in West Ashley from single‑family residential (SR‑2) to Job Center to permit a landscape maintenance and design business. Morgan said the change aligns the parcel with the comprehensive plan’s job‑center designation and noted planning commission approval. Owner John Henry Tecklenburg told council he intends to run his small landscape business from the existing warehouse and described the operation as low impact that would improve the property with plantings.

Other items on the docket included height‑district changes on the peninsula (80 Aiken Street, 76 Aiken Street parcels), and several annexation requests to bring properties into the city as SR‑1 single‑family residential. Planning staff noted the planning commission recommended approval on the detailed zoning and height requests. After the public hearings and a brief public‑comment period, a council member moved to approve items 1 through 8, the motion was seconded, and the council voice vote recorded “ayes have it.” The transcript does not include a roll‑call tally for that bundled vote.

The approval advances the zoning and annexation changes; staff indicated any subsequent permits or development approvals will proceed through established planning and permitting processes.