Memorandum from the Town of Gilbert Planning Commission November 25, 2021

Memorandum from the Town of Gilbert Planning Commission November 25, 2021

RE: Annexation Information

For Immediate Release:

This Tuesday, November 30, at 6:30pm, the Town of Gilbert Planning Commission will hold a Town Hall Meeting to provide more information regarding our current and pending Annexation Plans. Our Commission, along with Town Council, has worked very hard over the past many months to prepare, and now advertise and seek public involvement with, a plan to expand the limits of the Town of Gilbert in an effort to better serve our current property owners and also expand existing property protections to potential new Town citizens. The Town can offer property owners within its jurisdiction certain property rights not currently afforded those same properties while they reside outside the Town Limits. Although new, more stringent zoning regulations are in the future for unincorporated Lexington County, those restrictions will not offer the same protections the Town of Gilbert currently provides its property owners.

On October 21, 2021, the Town mailed its first phase of annexation informational packets to persons owning property within certain areas surrounding our Town Limits. This mailing included a post card indicating the property owner’s interest or lack thereof in being annexed into the Town of Gilbert. The deadline for returning those cards was November 15, 2021, and we have received a lot of response we will be analyzing very soon. Based on the response to this first phase, the Town may decide to conduct a second phase of mailings in the near future. This mailer was in efforts to inform our neighboring property owners of the pros to living inside the Town Limits of Gilbert as well as gauge the interest of adjacent property owners to becoming part of the Town.

Whether or not you received one of the first mailers, if you own property in the vicinity of the Town Limits of Gilbert, or if you are a current resident of the Town of Gilbert, the Planning Commission invites you to attend our Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, November 30. The Meeting will be held at 6:30pm at Town Hall, located at 345 Hampton St Gilbert, SC 29054.

More information about the Town of Gibert can also be found at www.townofgilbertsc.com.