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If Lancaster County plans to build a new regional sports complex, leaders want it done right.

Lancaster County Council heard updated plans recebtkt for the 82-acre park planned within the Roselyn development. A park that could cost almost $73 million.

Project director Andrew Pack with the Woolpert refined the project Monday night from a similar presentation last fall. Further details are still needed. Dennis Marstall, county administrator, said groundbreaking could come in spring 2024 with an opening in summer 2025 at the earliest.

Pack proposed a $34 million first phase to include a baseball or softball complex, multiuse fields, trails, passive recreation areas and property expansion. The park is just off U.S. 521 to its west, east of Landsford Canal State Park.

A second phase would add a 50,000-square-foot recreation center for almost $39 million. Or, for the same price, that project could be split into a 25,000-square-foot recreation center and future expansion to double it for the same 50,000 square feet.

Marstall said splitting the recreation center could mean a few more years before the entire project is complete.

The county still needs to work out what programs the new park will offer to make final decisions on what will go there. There is a $750,000 agreement in place with USC Lancaster baseball to host home games on one of the park’s new fields.

The vision for the new park includes trails that could be used for cross country. Gyms for basketball, volleyball and pickleball, including tournament events. Tournament baseball or soccer, plus disc golf if the county acquires an adjoining 20 acres. A splash pad is planned, too.

Marstall said there are funding streams like hospitality tax to help with the park. A separate discussion of a new detention center and court facilities at about $90 million — a more detailed update is expected next month — also factors into county finances. The detention center could use capital sales tax, among other sources. The projects likely would require a 20-year bond, Marstall said, to pay for some portion of them.

“We have sufficient revenue streams,” Marstall said.

Even with the large price tag, council members on Monday said they aren’t looking to cut back on the park. Chairman Steve Harper said the park isn’t for him, but for the growing number of pickleball players and team sports athletes and community members who want something special.

“I just want to make sure that we do something a little different than everybody else, or a little bit better,” Harper said. “This needs to be the showcase for Lancaster County.”

Councilman Billy Mosteller pointed to a Hartsville trip leaders took to view a splash pad. Mosteller doesn’t want a small, afterthought splash pad at the Lancaster County park. Mosteller wants a significant attraction.

“They’re shipping bus loads to Hartsville to go to this thing,” Mosteller said. “I want them to go to Lancaster.”

With the gym space option, whether to build a larger facility at one time or split it and delay half, Councilwoman Charlene McGriff said the county needs to go with whatever best serves the recreation needs of a growing community.

“If we’re going to do it, this is the time we do it right,” McGriff said. “We will not have another chance.”

Land use decisions dot the York, Lancaster and Chester counties area that could bring a wave of new homes and business.

Some are large like the Costco coming to Indian Land, or the former Herald site in Rock Hill. Others are smaller steps in the months or sometimes years of planning that goes into development.

Below are some of the ongoing projects happening now in the Rock Hill region:

▪ Warren Norman Company applied to rezone almost 8 acres at 3151 Hwy. 21 in Fort Mill to create a two-story indoor storage facility with an enclosed RV storage building. The site is across the main highway from Regent Parkway, and east of I-77. The 50,000-square-foot construction will leave about half the property remaining for future development.

▪ MJ Rooster Investments applied to create a 74-acre subdivision called Southern Pine Lake. The site would have 38 new homes. The Riddle Mill Road location is between S.C. 557 and Oakridge Road in Lake Wylie. The site is beside the Patrick Place subdivision.

▪ The planning commission in Tega Cay saw plans in June for the third phase, second map of the city’s Windhaven development. Documents from builder Lennar show 66 townhome units on 10 acres at Gold Hill Road and Hubert Graham Way, as part of a larger 109 proposed townhomes on almost 17 acres.

▪ The city planning commission also saw a revised preliminary site plan for Windell Woods. The Shea Homes plan involves 137 homes on 52 acres and Dam and Gardendale roads.

▪ True Homes applied for final plat in the second phase of Penley Place in Clover. The second and final phase will be 56 townhomes on almost 10 acres. The full Penley Place project will be 134 units on 19 acres. The development is located on U.S. 321, or North Main Street.

▪ Owners of 1573 Old North Main St. in Clover applied to annex the 47-acre property and zone it for high-density residential use. The site is near Westgate Industrial Park, Clover Liberty Pentecostal Church and the Penley Place townhomes. According to the application to the town, the owner doesn’t have an intended use listed for the property.

▪ Boma Vacation Rentals applied to rezone 219 N. Main St. in Clover to high density residential, to allow for remodeling of an existing building into duplex rental units. The property is less than an acre.

▪ True Homes, the Lancaster County Forfeited Land Commission and B&C Landholdings asked for a preliminary plat for a new Edgewater phase in Lancaster County. The county planning commission will hear the case June 20. The development would be 47 acres at Edgewater Parkway and Gateway Drive, and would include 106 homes and 49 townhomes.

▪ Exeter Development Company applied for an extension of time to build its Patterson Preserve subdivision. The county planning commission approved plans in 2019, but vested rights expired earlier this year. Original plans showed 181 homes in two phases, on 103 acres adjacent to Harrisburg and Barberville roads in Indian Land. The planning commission will hear the request June 20.

▪ Spirit 1st Ministries received a special exception from the county zoning board of appeals that will allow a Christian campground site on Kendelwood Drive, northeast of Lancaster. The site on the south side of Shiloh Unity Road is 335 acres, but the campground and RV plan involves 20 acres for retreats, team building and similar activities.

▪ In December the county approved a development agreement for Shiloh Woods, a subdivision of 398 homes along West Shiloh Unity Road. Such an agreement typically allows a developer five years to start the project. A change earlier this week clarified the property owner will have five years from the point development agreement conditions are met, deeds recorded and other matters to come, rather than from the mid-December approval date.

▪ The Timmons Group and others applied for a permit to put a Tommy’s Car Wash automated facility on 3 acres at 168 Fort Mill Highway. The county planning commission will review the request June 20.

▪ Fielding Homes withdrew its request in Chester County to rezone 180 acres for a new subdivision on Grant Farm Road. Prior company plans showed a request for a 400-home subdivision called Richburg Meadows. At the Chester County Council meeting earlier this month, county staff indicated the property owner would look to move forward with site development, but with a new builder.

▪ Homebuilder D.R. Horton asked council to hold off on decisions related to another home subdivision in Richburg, until June 20. Magnolias Trace is a D.R. Horton proposal for close to 500 acres and could add more than 1,100 new residences.

LANCASTER, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Parents in Lancaster County say they are fed up with the top leadership in the district and they want the superintendent out.

They organized a second petition, this one received hundreds of signatures within a few hours.

“We would much rather have him leave like now.. now, ” concerned grandparent Sandy McGarry said.

Those feelings sum up how nearly 240 other parents feel in Lancaster County. They want the Superintendent Dr. Jonathan Phipps to resign immediately. During the March 21st school board meeting, Phipps announced his decision to retire two years early.

He has been with the district since 2017.

“There’s been so many problems that we’ve seen between the parents, the children, financials, everything that has gone wrong. And so it’s better for him to just step out of the picture now so that we can get the healing process started and the hiring process started or the interview process started and move on to the hiring process and get him out of the picture,” McGarry said.

One parent emailed Queen City News along with the Lancaster County Board of Trustees and state representatives saying in part “During the countable years and currently, Mr. Jonathan Phipps’s leadership qualities have failed parents, school-aged children, and the district in its entirety. Mr. Jonathan Phipps has displayed an imbalance of independence, lack of direction, lack of transparency, and manipulation. Mr.Jonathan Phipps has implemented and executed boundary-crossing, absence of empathy, lack of listening, encouragement of unethical actions, and has shown an inability to deal with high-pressure situations. As a result of Mr. Jonathan Phipps’s ineffective leadership qualities, I am writing this letter requesting the immediate removal and replacement of Mr. Jonathan Phipps from the Lancaster County School District. Our Lancaster County School District needs an adequate, suitable, and competent leader that can rebuild our school district and begin putting our children first!”

The district responded to Queen City News’ request for comment, saying “The district has no official comment on this issue. The relationship between the board of trustees and the superintendent is a personnel matter and will be treated in accordance [with] our normal guidelines in referencing personnel issues“

Charlene Hunter, who immediately signed the petition, says that is a response she is used to.

“When parents submit [the district with the] threats that their students have been threatened with, they have no comment. When we ask for help from the district, it ‘Maybe it is a problem with the teacher,’ ‘Maybe the teacher is the one having problems.’ Their answer is always no comment,” she said.

One of the main reasons she signed the petition is because of financial reasons.

“There have been some financial uncertainties because before a county goes under a fiscal watch, they get a pretty much a three-year warning that something is amiss. And we’ve been under a fiscal watch now for the past two years. It is time for Mr. Phipps to move on and leave the citizens and children of Lancaster County alone,” Hunter said.

She says the next superintendent needs to be what she calls a true leader who cares about the district’s students and listens to teachers. She says the number of signatures on the petition signals a need for change.

“The community can see that this leader is no longer the one that can represent our children in the way that we need them to be represented,” she said.

Phipps is set to retire next June.

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Two adult men got in a fight at a South Carolina promotion ceremony in a classroom at a Lancaster County school Tuesday morning, officials said.

“No students were hurt,”Doug Barfield, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, told The Herald.

The incident caused a temporary lockdown at Brooklyn Springs Elementary School, Lancaster County School District officials said in a statement.

Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating the incident, Barfield said.

Barfield said a school resource officer and other deputies went to the scene.

The school is in Lancaster, southeast of Rock Hill and Charlotte.

The classroom had students, staff and other adults in it when the fight happened, Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile said in a statement.

“The two men know each other and had a disagreement which led to the physical altercation,” Faile said in the statement. “The fight was short. Other adults broke it up. Neither man received serious injuries. Nobody else was hurt. No weapons were involved.

“Incidents like this between adults visiting our schools set a very bad example for our children.”

The Lancaster County School District posted a statement about the incident on its safety and transportation Facebook page. The statement from safety and transportation director Bryan Vaughn said:

“We Had a Very Unfortunate Incident at Brooklyn Springs Elementary. Parents and students were attending a promotional ceremony at Brooklyn Springs Elementary today when a fight broke out between two men. It was an alarming scene that occurred in a classroom packed with students and fellow parents. The school was placed on lockdown and law enforcement and administration responded. The case has been turned over to the Sheriff’s Office. This was a joyous day for so many that got interrupted by this poor behavior and we are sincerely sorry. The staff at Brooklyn Springs did a wonderful job keeping kids safe and we hurt for the kids who had to witness this event.”

The school district calendar on its Web site shows the school year ends this week.

Faile said in the statement that deputies are talking to witnesses during the investigation.

This story was originally published May 23, 2023, 2:43 PM.

Lancaster is set to add a significant number of new homes and apartments.

Lancaster City Council met Tuesday night. There, council members faced decisions that could bring close to 500 new residences.

Homebuilder D.R. Horton applied last fall to annex property for a 273-home subdivision on the east side of U.S. 521, or Charlotte Highway, near the main entrance to the Arrowood subdivision. The property is more than 100 acres. It’s now up for several rezonings needed to make the plan happen.

Decisions related to the project on Tuesday involve rezoning almost 72 acres owned by Central Monroe at 2080 Charlotte Hwy., 29 acres owned by 521 Property at 2250 Charlotte Hwy., almost 14 acres owned by the Chisom family at 2081 Charlotte Hwy. (the Crow’s Nest driving range) and almost 13 acres owned by the Thompson family at 2120 Charlotte Hwy.

All those decisions will need a second vote, after ones scheduled for Tuesday. Those second votes are tentatively scheduled for Feb. 14.

Plans are to market the homes in the $300,000 to $390,000 range.

Close to that site, there’s a separate plan that city council finalized Tuesday.

Riverside Investment Options applied to annex a nearly 22-acre property on the south side of University Drive, across from the Arrowood subdivision. It’s immediately across from University Drive intersections with Havenwood Drive and Charles Avenue. The 192-apartment plan includes eight garden style buildings at three stories each.

The apartments will have outdoor patios that overlook shaded areas. Less than half the acreage would be developed, since much of it sits in flood plain. A nature trail would be built along the creek there. A submitted plan shows the entrance would come in line with the Havenwood and University intersection.

The city estimates the new apartment complex would be valued at $30 million.

Combined with the 72-acre Red Rose Village project council saw last month, the two projects up for consideration Tuesday would add to more than 700 new residences planned for the city.

As of the 2020 Census, the entire city had about 3,900 total housing units.