Seneca Planners Recommend PDC with No-Lodging Restriction to Address Traffic Worries

In a packed meeting Monday night, the Seneca Planning Commission recommended rezoning nearly eight lakefront acres owned by the 55-year-old Keowee Marina from its current zoning to Planned Development Commercial (PDC) — modifying the marina’s original request for straight General Commercial zoning — to allow construction of an enclosed dry-stack boat storage building that will end open-air boat servicing; co-owner Clay Schile stressed the project is essential for the business’s future, while nearby residents, especially from Marina Point Road and elsewhere, filled the chamber with concerns about worsening traffic at the busy Old Salem Road–U.S. 123 intersection…

Responding to those worries, Commission Chairman Barry Duvall and the panel approved the PDC recommendation on the condition that no lodging facilities of any kind may ever be built on the property, a restriction they say will substantially limit additional traffic on the two-lane Old Salem Road between Lake Keowee and the highway…

Final approval now rests with Seneca City Council.