Frustration brews over Parker’s Kitchen plans in Columbia County
GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Parker’s Kitchen has its eye on another location in the CSRA.
It looks to be at Lewiston Road and Columbia Road near Grovetown. It’s an intersection that sees more than 14,000 drivers daily according to a county traffic count.
A neighbor of over 30 years says this wasn’t the way it used to be.
“You could sit on your front porch and you could talk and you wouldn’t hear all the sirens, you wouldn’t hear all the traffic you wouldn’t hear all the horns blocking,” said Patricia Hamilton.
Hamilton got land on Columbia Road as a wedding gift. Now her present has some negatives.
“It’s different. I don’t mind development. I just don’t like the traffic,” said Hamilton. “Someday’s I’ve literally timed it and it’s taken me 15 minutes to get out of my own driveway.”
On Thursday, the Columbia County Planning Commission will vote on whether to approve the store, and neighbors in the area are concerned.
The commission will meet at 6 p.m. in the Evans Government Center auditorium.
“How many gas stations can you have?” asks one neighbor.
They say the area is already overdeveloped.
“Noisy, very noisy, and if they put a lot of businesses here it’s hard for people to get out. It’s horrendous,” she said.
Bringing in more, breaking the peace Hamilton used to enjoy.
“It’s just not like it used to be. I know change comes I’m older I realized progress is gonna happen, but I just I don’t understand why we can’t get the roads you know to accommodate the traffic before we start approving,” said Hamilton.
Thursday’s vote, if approved, would send plans for the Parker’s Kitchen at the location to Columbia County Commission as early as July 18.
In Aiken, neighbors rejected the location of another Parker’s Kitchen location on June 12.
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