Nearly 200 homes planned along highway in this growing Midlands county. Here’s where
Developers want to build nearly 200 new single family homes in a rural, unincorporated part of Lexington County near some of its fast-growing areas.
The 193-home development, which would sit on 80 acres in a mostly undeveloped part of the Midlands county between South Congaree and Red Bank, is up for initial approval by the county’s planning commission on Thursday. The subdivision, set for a plot of land along Edmund Highway near Scenic Court, would back up to a quiet neighborhood of double-wide mobile homes.
Each lot for the development would be at least 9,000 square feet, with some larger ones stretching to more than 17,000 square feet, according to planning documents submitted to the county. Edmund Highway, Scenic Court and Norman Drive would all be used as entry points for the new neighborhood, which would also have a 3 acre pond.
The stretch of Edmund Highway where the subdivision would land currently sees about 12,200 vehicles traveling along it each day, according to data provided by the state Department of Transportation.
The massive development would sit in the area in between South Congaree and Red Bank, the latter of which is home to an upcoming $65 million mixed-use development off Platt Springs Road set to feature large national brands like a Lowes Foods grocery store, Planet Fitness and Whataburger. That project was announced in early 2023.
The subdivision project is under what’s known as a concurrency review and would have to be recommended by the planning commission before it goes before county council.
The council enacted concurrency standards in June, in an effort to control the county’s rapid growth. Lexington is expected to grow by 10%, or by more than 33,000 people, by the year 2040. The new rules mean that entities such as public safety, solid waste and local school districts have a chance to weigh in on whether they have the capacity to handle proposed residential developments, with the county being empowered to deny requests based on this input.
