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Staff outlines 124-unit rezoning plan for Brown Swamp Road; applicant emphasizes buffers and wetlands protections
Summary
Planning staff described a request to rezone 64.4 acres on Brown Swamp Road to allow 124 single-family lots (part of a 205-unit master plan across the road), noting wetlands, buffer commitments and transportation study conditions; the applicant said the plan will add perimeter buffers and no wetland impacts are expected.
Planning staff told the Horry County Planning Commission on Aug. 28 that an applicant seeks a future land use map amendment and rezoning of a 64.4-acre portion of property on Brown Swamp Road in Conway from FA and MSF-10 to MRD-1 to accommodate 124 single-family units.
The staff presentation, delivered by Grayson, said the portion being rezoned would have a gross density of 1.92 dwelling units per acre and a net density of 2.17 dwellings per acre. The project would be master planned with 52.7 acres across Brown Swamp Road that are already zoned MSF-10, producing a total proposed unit count of 2 0 5. Staff noted approximately 7.19 acres of wetlands on the rezoned portion, two access points on Brown Swamp Road, 25-foot wetland buffers, 25-foot opaque side and rear buffers, a 25-foot drainage easement on the eastern property line, additional streetscape plantings, sidewalks, three pocket parks and a proposed 100% increase in active open space.
Clint Richardson, representing the applicant team, told commissioners the applicant will "elect to do increased buffers around the perimeter, added trees on the streetscapes" and that the traffic study recommendations would be followed. Richardson said the plan shows "no wetland impacts" and the project team had elected to use wetland buffers as shown on the plan.
Commissioners asked staff to confirm whether the frontage lots under existing zoning could accommodate homes or manufactured/mobile homes; staff and the applicant confirmed MRD-1 allows 10,000-square-foot single-family lots and that the applicant plans single-family lots under the proposed MRD-1 zoning. No final vote on the rezoning occurred at the workshop; staff and the applicant were told the item will return next week for further consideration.
