Horry County Planning Commission will make a recommendation on April 3, 2025 to rezone 127.62 acres to Multi Residential District-Preservation (MRD-P)

On April 3, 2025, Horry County Planning Commission will be reviewing a request to rezone approximately 127.62 acres from Forest Agriculture (FA) to Residential (SF 10) to Multi Residential District-Preservation (MRD-P) for a piece of property located on Highway 45 in Loris.

The MRD-Preservation zoning district establishes design criteria for rural subdivisions. Collectively, a smaller minimum lot size becomes permissible for the exchange of greater setbacks, landscape buffers and the implementation of sustainable design criteria. The MRD-P zoning district allows a mixture of housing types; to include, single family and duplex dwellings, quadraplex, townhomes, zero lot-line development, tiny homes and multifamily. Density of the development remains guided by the Imagine 2040 Future Land Use Map designation. Specifically, Rural designations are capped at 2 net dwelling units per acre and Rural Communities designation are capped at 3 net dwelling units per acre. The MRD-P subdivision design implements a three hundred (300) foot external setback and a one hundred (100) foot landscape buffer around the perimeter of the developed area. Specific Area, Yard, and Height requirements and specific buffer planting schedules are referenced in the accompanying graphic.
Simply speaking, a property with MRD-P zoning will have more green and more open space, but potentially more homes closer together.

Since the MRD Preservation district is a new zoning district, any request to develop under the MRD-P designation would require a rezoning action and approval from Horry County Council.

Expectations are for Horry County to continuing to be receiving MRD-P rezoning requests – not only for brand new proposals, but for strategy changes in previously submitted proposals that now may be more feasible for the developer in an MRD-P zoning scenario.

The current proposed plan is to build 206 single-family homes on this parcel of land.

This property is located north of Conway and southwest of Loris, just north of Highway 701.

The Conceptual Plan is naming this new home community Bayboro Quarters.

At this meeting the Horry County Planning Commission will make a recommendation as to whether the property should be rezoned. Their recommendation is then forwarded to the Horry County City Council for action.

DABS of MB LLC purchased this property in January of 2025.

Timing for the new home community of Bayboro Quarters has not yet been announced

Homes for sale in Bayboro Quarters

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