Commissioners accept developer’s offer

Oconee’s sewer commissioners are agreeable to accept a developer’s offer of capital contributions in place of impact fees – a deal that will see hundreds of new apartment-style housing units on the 123 Seneca-Clemson corridor near the SC 93 turn to the university.  Chris Eleazer, executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, told the commissioners, “I think it is a great deal.”  As explained by developer Brent Little of Dallas, Texas, his company will pay for about $4 million dollars of sewer infrastructure in exchange for a pass on the JRSA’s recently approved higher impact fees.  Little, the man behind the Dockside development across the Lake Hartwell bridge at Clemson, says he has two sets of property under contract, and expects his first development to start as early as April in the Paws restaurant area on 123, to be followed by a second development in the vicinity of Greenfield Manufacturing.  Although no one on the sewer board dissented, Westminster’s Kevin Bronson succeeded in amending the acceptance by insisting that first he and the rest of the board get to see Little’s offer in contract form.