Student housing gets higher priority

Out of consideration that the developer will share in the cost, a planned major student housing complex on Shadwick family property on 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor, is going to get a higher priority with the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The JRSA policy board accepted an amendment by Westminster’s Kevin Bronson to move the Seneca Creek pumping station and related fittings from a number five priority to a number three priority on 10 pressing capital improvement projects that are liable to force the JRSA to take on borrowing debt and increase wholesale treatment charges to the member cities.  Bronson, the Westminster city administrator, explained his motivation is triggered by Texas-based developer Brent Little’s willingness to help pay the cost of extending piped sewer to what’s planned as new student housing on 123 between Bojangles and the vicinity of Paws restaurant.  Little who sat behind Bronson at yesterday’s meeting re-affirmed a commitment that he made during November’s JRSA board meeting.  Of 10 prioritized projects, the replacement of the Flat Rock pump station near 101.7/WGOG remains top priority, and Bronson announced that the next finance and administration committee meeting he’s going to call for the Flat Rock engineering work to start.