City to Consider Annexation on Vandiver Road for Subdivision
Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer
Anderson City Council will vote on a proposal to annex and rezone 31.5 acres at 216 Vandiver Road as part of Monday’s meeting at 6 p.m. in council chambers downtown.
The applicant is asking the city to annex the property and construct a single-family residential subdivision consisting of 62 lots on the property which borders Vandiver Road and is just behind T.L. Hanna High School.
Council will vote Monday on sending the proposal to the city planning commission, which meets Oct. 6.
Under the city’s new Unified Development Ordinance, the proposed subdivision would use the conservation-design option rather than a conventional layout, allowing flexibility in arranging homes and infrastructure while permanently protecting designated land from development.
At least 40 percent of the site would have to be set aside as a conservation area where development is prohibited. The project’s residential density also could not exceed the underlying Suburban Residential, or SR, zoning limit of about 2.5 housing units per acre.
Another rezoning proposal is also on Monday’s agenda. Council will consider referring a request to rezone 202 U.S. 29 Bypass to the Planning Commission to use a vacant, roughly 20,000-square-foot building on the approximately 2.25-acre property for storage or warehousing.
The property is zoned general commercial, which does not permit storage, warehouse or distribution uses. The requested light industrial zoning would allow those uses if inventory, machinery and equipment are kept inside a fully enclosed building.
On Monday, council will also vote expanding its street-parking restrictions to include boats, jet skis, utility trailers, travel trailers, campers, motor homes, toy haulers and similar recreational vehicles.
City code already restricts oversized commercial vehicles from parking on public streets except while making deliveries. City officials maintain other vehicles and equipment parked on streets can obstruct visibility, make roads harder to navigate and detract from their appearance.
Under the proposed amendment, residents could keep the listed vehicles in a garage or fully enclosed, opaque structure, or in a side or rear yard if the parking location meets setback requirements in the city’s Unified Development Ordinance.
