A 750-home subdivision set for Lexington County delayed. When it could be back.
A developer wants to put 750 homes on a vacant piece of land in rural Lexington County, but the plan has been slightly delayed.
After initially submitting an application to the zoning board for a variance to allow for a denser subdivision than the county allows, the developer, Jason Wilkie, told The State his company decided to postpone the request for a later meeting.
“We wanted to make sure we had all our parts and pieces in place to be able to go before the board of zoning appeals and just didn’t feel like we had it all squared away at the time,” Wilkie, who owns Wilkie Development, said.
The variance request for the project was set to be heard at a Jan. 20 zoning board meeting, but was scratched from the agenda.
The plans, submitted to Lexington County in December 2025 and provided to The State through a public records request, call for building 670 homes on a 335-acre plot of land between Old Charleston Road and Calks Ferry Road, about seven miles southeast of Gilbert. The subdivision would have around 100 acres of free space, according to the application.
The variance request is to allow Wilkie Development to put 2.25 homes per acre, as opposed to the county’s limit of 2 homes per acre. With the variance requested, if approved, the subdivision would hold 750 homes, which would be a mix of single-family homes and possibly some patio homes, Wilkie told The State.
Wilkie said he believed the land is good for a nice neighborhood and that the intention was to build homes with brick and Hardie Plank and to feature a mixture of housing types.
“It’s going to be a unique neighborhood. There’s not many around that’ll look like this,” Wilkie said.
The company also plans to pave Crout Place Road, which is currently a dirt road, and to reconfigure the intersection of Crout Place and Calks Ferry Roads at no cost to the county. Wilkie said he anticipated the road repaving and reconfiguration to be around $3 million in investment.
With an estimate of around a year to get permitted, the project will likely take nearly a decade to complete. It will be split into seven phases, Wilkie said, and each phase will take around a year.
The next zoning board meeting is scheduled for Feb. 17. It’s unclear whether the project will be on the agenda. The State has reached out to the county’s zoning administrator Walt McPherson and has not received a response.
This story was originally published January 27, 2026 at 5:30 AM.
