The Lexington County Council in South Carolina is considering legislation to limit the number of homes that can be built on an acre of land in the county sitting on Columbia's southwest border, according to The State. The law would create a district around the town of Lexington that would cap development of single family homes to four per acre. The current law is pegged at 12 per acre.
Resident Kimberly Cockrell said she experienced a more cramped lifestyle in Lexington than in Los Angeles, where she used to live. She moved out of a one-way street in Lexington’s Wellesley neighborhood to have more space and she found it in West Columbia, she said. At her new home, “I can’t see what the next door neighbor is cooking,” she said.
But her concern wasn’t just being close to other neighbors, Cockrell said, it also was the strain it put on emergency services and other basic needs.
Yet even though it may feel like 12 homes are stuck on an acre of land in some areas, county spokesperson Harrison Cahill said that’s not true. There are no single family residential developments with 12 units on one acre in unincorporated Lexington County, he said. The highest density residential development built in the past five years was 6.72 units per acre, Cahill said.
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