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Home building boom shows no sign of slowing

By Lightning Reports, Published: July 3, 2024

High interest rates, supply chain challenges and labor shortages have failed to slow the torrid pace of residential construction in Henderson County.

The city of Hendersonville has approved or is currently reviewing applications to build 3,984 dwellings, and that number could grow by 258 units if the City Council approves the two newest requests — one for a 185-unit apartment complex on Greenville Highway and the other for a 58-home subdivision north of I-26.

While a fifth of the approved projects have not broken ground — categorized as inactive in the housing dashboard maintained by the city’s planning department — 9 percent of the developments have been completed and 47 percent are under construction.

The biggest new project is the apartments proposed on vacant land at the city’s south gateway. The landowner is seeking a rezoning to allow the 185-unit residential development on 8.8 acres on Greenville Highway south of the Executive II convenience store and across from Chadwick Square (Dollar Tree) shopping center.

Travis Fowler of First Victory Inc. and landowner South Market LLC have applied for a rezoning from Planned Commercial Development to Urban Residential Conditional Zoning District for the construction of the multi-family development at 715 Greenville Highway. The site for the proposed project is in three parcels valued for tax purposes at $2.5 million, land records show. The city will hold a neighborhood compatibility meeting on the proposal at 2 p.m. Friday, July 19, at the City Operations, 305 Williams St.

City planners will host another neighborhood compatibility meeting on July 22 on a developer’s application to rezone 21 acres of land off Old Sunset Hill Road for the 58-home subdivision.

Tricia Chassen of Forestar USA Real Estate Group Inc., Jared DeRidder of WGLA Engineering and landowners Gregory Martin Albea and Joseph Harley Taylor are seeking the change from Henderson County R2R residential zoning to the city’s Planned Residential Development Conditional Zoning District for construction of the homes on Old Sunset Hill Road east of Howard Gap Road and north of Sugarloaf Road. Based on the city’s utilities policy, the landowners would be required to agree to annexation in order to receive sewer service.

City planners will convene a public meeting on that proposal at 2 p.m. Monday, July 22, also at the City Operations Center. During neighborhood compatibility meetings, applicants are invited to describe plans for their projects and neighbors may ask questions.

County fields two requests

Other proposed developments could soon be on the docket of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners. The county Planning Board is scheduled to take up two applications later this month that would clear the way for residential development:

• Landowners Kenneth and Alline Rhodes and Hoopers Creek Land LLC are seeking a rezoning from Residential Two Rural, which allows two units per acre, to Residential One, which permits up to 16 units per acre and structures up to 40 feet tall. The 13-acre site, which contains two houses and some storage sheds, is at 384 and 390 Hoopers Creek Road, north of Livingston Farms.
• The Ann Greenwood and Doris K. Cole revocable trusts and applicants Richard Greenwood and Michael Cole are seeking a rezoning of 22 acres from Regional Commercial to Residential Two Rural (R2R). Site of the old Cole orchard, the land fronts along Continental Divide Drive and Summit Springs Drive, east of the U.S. 25 connector and north of Gosnell Used Auto Parts.

The county Planning Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18.