{"id":2404,"date":"2026-06-30T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:07:04","slug":"rejected-rosewood-liquor-store-plan-returns-owner-wants-student-apts-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Rejected Rosewood liquor store plan returns; owner wants student apts next door"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a unanimous rejection and a no-show at a hearing last year, a Rosewood Drive gas station owner\u2019s proposal to add a liquor store to his business is back before Columbia\u2019s zoning board this week. The plans come as the same property owner is also pursuing student apartments on a vacant parcel immediately next door.<\/p>

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Owners of the Sunset Point gas station and convenience store at 1701 Rosewood Dr. are asking Columbia\u2019s Board of Zoning Appeals to grant it special permission to put a liquor store in an attached storefront to its existing convenience store.<\/p>

The proposed location is on the corner of South Pickens Street, and the adjacent lot is across Fulton Street from a Family Dollar store.<\/p>

In an application filed by Amandeep Singh, the gas station owners Sahil of Columbia LLC promise the would-be liquor store will be well-lit and secured with cameras, and that the project \u201cwill contribute to local economic activity, create jobs, and provide a regulated retail option without adversely affecting public interest.\u201d<\/p>

Columbia\u2019s zoning board will consider the request at a Thursday meeting. That board disagreed with the applicant when it unanimously rejected the plans in early 2025, with board members saying a liquor store there would be detrimental to the community and contribute to an over-proliferation of similar stores.<\/p>

Representatives for the property owners did not attend that 2025 meeting.<\/p>

The liquor store application asks to put the liquor store in an attached retail space in the same building as the convenience store.<\/p>

Planning staff have determined that the request appears to meet certain city requirements, like providing adequate parking and limiting light and noise pollution. But staff have also highlighted the criteria the project didn\u2019t meet in 2025.<\/p>

Those include requirements that a project is consistent with the area, that it doesn\u2019t create a concentration of similar businesses, and that it will not adversely affect the public interest.<\/p>

When the zoning board first rejected the liquor store plans in 2025, two neighborhood representatives for the Hollywood-Rose Hill and Wheeler Hill neighborhoods spoke against the proposal.<\/p>

\u201cWe have a neighborhood with a lot of very nice, livable homes, and many of those are a block from this… location,\u201d said Hollywood-Rose Hill resident William Lynn Shirley at that 2025 meeting. \u201cWe fight all the time with what goes in on Rosewood Drive that would discourage young people with kids from moving into our neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>