Dwayne Cooper and his two neighbors say that strategies for a massive, new subdivision would alter Web site Lane, which is the only highway leading to their properties in a wooded location surrounded by the Legacy Pines Golf Club in the vicinity of the Southern Connector in Greenville County.
“They are in essence shifting my lawful obtain to my house,” Cooper stated in an job interview Thursday. “They can not improve it without having my consent.”
Cooper and his neighbors voiced their considerations about the proposed structure for Eco-friendly Pine Estates for the duration of a Greenville County Arranging Commission meeting this week.
Fee customers quizzed the development’s engineer about the alignment of the obtain street for the current homes.
There also had been inquiries about a smaller cemetery on the 203-acre tract that is not proven in the site system for the proposed 437-home subdivision.
The consequences that Environmentally friendly Pine Estates and other not long ago permitted developments in the area will have on encompassing streets was an additional matter of dialogue.
And even though it did not come up at Wednesday’s conference, there also is uncertainty about the foreseeable future of the Legacy Pines Golfing Club. The options submitted to county officials reveal that the golfing system on Ranch Street will vanish, but one particular of the associates included in the development insists that it may perhaps keep on being.
“We are checking out our alternatives,” mentioned Tommy Biershenk, who owns the corporation that has been leasing the class from Greenville’s Hejaz Shrine Club given that 2015.
What is obvious is that the Setting up Commission will wait around for at the very least a month in advance of voting on whether to approve Inexperienced Pine Estates.
Prior to Wednesday’s vote was delayed, preparing commissioner Metz Looper said he was impressed with the programs for Inexperienced Pine Estates. The properties in the improvement would be developed in clusters, and about 50 % of the house would be established apart for detention locations and open up place.
“This is a person of the better cluster subdivisions that I have viewed in a while,” Looper stated.
Engineer states issues about accessibility street and cemetery can be resolved
Jonathan Nett, the engineer for Eco-friendly Pine Estates, agreed to the a single-thirty day period hold off in consideration of the improvement.
He explained at Wednesday’s meeting he would seek out to take care of any issues about the obtain street to the present households.
“We are satisfied to satisfy with the inhabitants,” Nett mentioned. “If we will need to eliminate a couple of lots to deliver accessibility by way of that, we are happy to do that.”
Arranging commissioner Mark Jones said he was “really involved” about the cemetery that was omitted from the development’s web-site prepare.
“That should really be protected because we’ve by now had one in Greenville County from the Groundbreaking War period of time that was wrecked, and we don’t will need to see that all over again,” Jones claimed.
Nett reported 1 ton could be eliminated from the internet site system to preserve the cemetery and create a 20-foot buffer about it.
Partner in improvement: ‘We’re striving to figure out a way to keep’ golf class
Biershenk, who is a former skilled golfer, mentioned he and his husband or wife, Easley developer Anthony Anders, would like to preserve the Legacy Pines system open when producing customized residences on the adjacent residence.

“My coronary heart is in it. We have 290 associates,” Biershenk claimed. “We are making an attempt to figure out a way to keep it.”
He mentioned plans have been geared up to swap the course’s clubhouse that burned last 12 months.
If the present site system for Eco-friendly Pine Estates is approved, Legacy Pines could be the 2nd golf study course in the place to drop prey to household development in recent yrs. Nearly 850 houses are remaining created on the former Bonnie Brae Golfing Club, which shut in 2019 right after becoming open up for nearly six many years.
Mauldin-space citizens trying to get to prevent a different Woodruff Street
In addition to remaining concerned about the highway top to his home, Cooper mentioned at Wednesday’s meeting that he is fearful about the rising targeted traffic in the rapidly expanding location south of Mauldin.
Cooper mentioned the subdivision at the former Bonnie Brae Golfing Club is between seven developments close to Ashmore Bridge Street that have been accepted in the previous three decades.
He prompt that the developers of Eco-friendly Pine Estates need to perform a thorough traffic review that accounts for the congestion that all those new developments will produce in the next couple a long time.
“We don’t want to conclude up with a further Woodruff Road,” he mentioned Thursday.
Kirk Brown addresses authorities, expansion and politics for The Greenville News. Get to him at [email protected] or on Twitter @KirkBrown_Intention. Please subscribe to The Greenville Information by visiting greenvillenews.subscriber.solutions.
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