(FIRST: Please be aware that DONATIONS GIVEN AFTER SIGNING PETITION ON THIS CHANGE dot org site DO NOT COME TO US TO HELP WITH SIGN AND FLYER EXPENSES. We have a gofundme account for that.  CLICK HERE TO DONATE to help with our expenses.)

How much do you know about the 443 page Zoning Ordinance that will be voted on very soon? How much do you know about the GVL-2040 Plan and its huge ramifications on our city? This site was created to help neighbors become aware of the potential effects of these decisions on our city and neighborhoods. The goal of this site is to educate. If you would like to help educate fellow citizens, please share this site. Awareness is important. This site was not created to tell you how to feel about it. 

If you want to stand behind protecting single family residential neighborhoods from being rezoned to higher density / mixed use / commercial, please sign the petition.

If you think that we, as a community, need more time to understand the intricacies and implications of the radical changes that GVL-2040 and this zoning ordinance will bring, please CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE OTHER PETITION 

Click here for ZONING MAP  This is important. Look closely at places you care about. If you don't like what you see, let it be heard now, before the vote.

Click here to see Zoning Ordinance  The Zoning Ordinance is step 1 in the implementation of GVL-2040.

Click here to see GVL-2040 Plan, particularly p. 64 and 65. This plan makes radical changes to our city and was created during Covid. Therefore a very small percentage of citizens had input into its creation.

Our city is about so much more than how many people we can fit per square mile. We need to stop this snowball from rolling down the slippery slope on which it sits. Once it is done, it is done.

What can we do about it? We can make ourselves heard. These are elected offices. The people you voted into office need to be informed of your opinions and held accountable to listen and act. This is time sensitive. Things are being heard and voted on in the next few weeks.

1. Write/Call your City Council Members, and our mayor, Knox White (864) 467-4590
2. Write the planning committee members. planning@greenvillesc.gov
3. Email Shannon Lavrin. She will get your letters to the planning commission.  slavrin@greenvillesc.gov
4. Sign this petition. Then please share it so others are informed and can sign if they choose. Check back on this petition site for updates as they come in. 
5. Donate to help pay for signage and flyers so that we can educate and inform those neighbors that have no idea this is about to happen- and there are plenty. The work we are doing is for every single neighbor. Helping with money is one way you can contribute. Click here to Donate to help. If you donate on this site after signing this, it does not go to our cause.
6. Go to the May 22 City Council meeting. LET'S ALL WEAR RED IN SOLIDARITY. We are allowed to speak at this meeting. Be sure you sign up before the Friday preceding the meeting.
7. SHARE this information. Please look at the map for your family members and friends. Be vigilant. Become aware. 
8. Vote in the upcoming election. Primaries are June 13. Election is November 7.  If your representatives and leaders are acting in alignment with your viewpoints and opinions, re-elect them.  If not, replace them. This is your power within a democracy. Use it.

These people are up for re-election:                                                              

Mayor Knox White                                                                                              City Council members:  Dorothy Dowe, John DeWorken, Ken Gibson  Commissioner of Public Works: Phillip Kilgore. 

 

City Council Clerk: (864) 467-4431

KNOX WHITE
Mayor
kwhite@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2019-2023

JOHN DEWORKEN
District 1
jdeworken@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2019-2023

LILLIAN FLEMMING
District 2
lflemming@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2021-2025

KEN GIBSON
District 3
kgibson@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2019-2023

WIL BRASINGTON
District 4
wbrasington@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2021-2025

DOROTHY DOWE
At Large
ddowe@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2019-2023

RUSSELL STALL
At Large
rstall@greenvillesc.gov
Term: November 2021-2025

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INFORMATION ON ORIGINAL PETITION: 

Churches on Augusta Rd., Cleveland St., and others within the City, (as well as the adjacent residential lots, given in good faith by their deceased members,) seem to be the main target of this change, from R-6 to commercial zoning classifications. (See illustrations below.) Many of these same deceased church members have their ashes scattered in the church yards.  This is sacred space.

Changing these parcels to commercial starts the domino effect to all lots on Augusta St., (and throughout Greenville,) becoming commercial over time. As it stands, the houses fronting Augusta St. provide the front lines of insulation for the houses behind them. These homes are all slated to become multi-use by GVL-2040.  If they go commercial, what does that do to the deeper sections of the neighborhood? Our neighborhoods are some of the last established neighborhoods that have not been obliterated by development. We are neighborhoods of schools, churches, and families. We are the welcome mat into Greenville from I85…… a place of trees, old houses, and the basic feel of what Greenville has always been.

UPDATE: We have been told that church lots within the city will be recommended to stay with "like-like" zoning, according to the information shared at the Planning Commission Meetings. The question now is, how many other neighborhoods are threatened with rezoning but do not know it?

PLEASE LOOK AT CORRIDOR DEFINITION AND USAGE, PARTICULARLY ON AUGUSTA ST ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD SECTION. FRONT PROPERTIES CAN BE "REQUESTED OR REQUIRED TO BECOME HIGHER DENSITY/ COMMERCIAL ACCORDING TO GVIL-2040. 

Update: Mayor Knox White and members of the town council and planning commission staff have promised that the corridor definition on the neighborhood section of Augusta St will be removed.  The question is, how many neighborhoods are unaware of the intended changes for them?

 

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO COMPARE SETBACK AND USE USAGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND RNX-C. (THIS SHOWS RH-B, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE CURRENT R-9.)