PENDLETON — After a judge ordered another review of a proposed subdivision in November over potential gravesites, the Anderson County Planning Commission placed the Anderson Reserve development on its December agenda. It then removed the agenda items without a word, saying no more than the county does “not comment on ongoing legal matters.” Anderson Reserve developers are fighting back against a lawsuit they aren’t technically part of, though their attorneys argue they should be.
Two neighbors of the potential subdivision on Fants Grove Circle sued the Planning Commission in May , stating they told the county about unmarked gravesites on the former Rivoli Plantation multiple times and nothing was being done to protect the burial grounds. Anderson Reserve was originally on the Dec. 16 Planning Commission agenda as a “consent agenda” item, a category typically used to compile multiple simple matters into a single vote.
Just before that bit of old business, the commission was to have a closed-door meeting to discuss the lawsuit from Stanley Hix and Hubert Smith surrounding Anderson Reserve. Both items had disappeared from the agenda by Dec. 13.
“Due to pending litigation we do not comment on ongoing legal matters,” Anderson County Planning Director Alesia Hunter told The Post and Courier via email. Hix and Hubert’s attorney, Jim Carpenter, released several documents ahead of the meeting showing where his clients had — at the judge’s prompting — paid for g.
