Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thursday, July 30, 2026

The Batesburg-Leesville Planning Commission met on July 30, 2026. The commission discussed construction timelines for a project's first phase and reviewed questions regarding R2 zoning regulations, specifically concerning single-family versus multi-family dwelling definitions.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Batesburg-Leesville, SC
Meeting Date
July 30, 2026

Transcript

17 sections

0:00 – 0:39Speaker 2

Just in case you might... Yes, Council. There was a provision made today.

0:39Speaker 1

If you ask, it's actually one and a half. I sent that back to them. They got that.

1:08 – 3:02Speaker 2

Obviously. With This is for phase one, which is . should be there anytime that makes more than six weeks to get that in, should be closed in months. instruction within the next 60 to 90 days of the program. From the moment we're closing the first, last, and second days. So I would estimate that within two days, we'll probably be 12 months out from starting construction.

3:56 – 4:44Speaker 2

Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Right, right, Laura.

5:44Speaker 1

And I'm right.

6:21 – 6:57Speaker 2

Yeah. Yeah. you can bring a couple chairs down that's oh yes the microphones yes you

8:14 – 10:44Speaker 1

Sorry. Thank you. last month, they looked at R2 and they had some questions, so they had decided to reach out to us and give us a joint work session with the National Community Planning Commission. I did jot down some of those in my office, but didn't get everything I was looking for.

10:44Speaker 2

I covered everything.

10:46 – 13:36Speaker 1

One of the questions was, be on 7-3.2 of R2, that first page there, on subsection A, which is single damage, and 2, when that 2 drops out into a multi-damage? Is there a reason that we were getting one multi-damage? This one drops out into a multi-damage, which opened it beyond two points. Well, yes. so that just makes for staff recommendations . . . . . You can take now that .

15:05 – 16:29Speaker 1

Well, the question about that was . And I don't think that most of your questions about . And going back to that . we'll get back into it Thank you. Thank you.

17:10Speaker 2

Okay. So the only thing. Building size.

17:17Speaker 1

We spend about you.

18:42 – 19:14Speaker 1

And then as we find it. Thank you.

19:44 – 24:37Speaker 2

I don't. all right so i'm able to essentially using Right. Fine. So we've permitted special exemptions except for whether or not like a principle we can solve that.

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