WMBF News reports that CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - Residents along Two Pine Drive are pushing back against a proposed housing development that would bring 372 single-family units to land along Highway 905.
The development group is seeking to rezone several hundred acres from forest and agricultural use to a preservation-style multi-residential district to build the homes.
Neighbors across the street say the project will worsen traffic on an already congested corridor.
“It’s already getting bad, so if we put housing there, and more people and everything else, it’s just I don’t even know if a light’s gonna help it,” said Kristy Dimarco, a Conway resident.
It’s gonna add time to everybody’s commute, time to get home, just not wanted.” Residents say Highway 905 experiences bumper-to-bumper traffic during the school year and believe the new complex will double that congestion.
They are also concerned that the development will lower home values and increase crime in the area.