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Grand Strand Health is looking to bring a medical facility to Conway, and the request has made it through its first hurdle.

The hospital system is hoping to rezone and annex a nearly nine acre property off Mill Pond Road. Though city staff raised concerns over flooding on the property, the planning commission voted 5-0 Thursday to recommend the annexation and rezoning to the city council, but the applicant still has plenty of work to do.

Now the request must make its way through city council, which could happen over the next month.

鈥淕rand Strand Health is excited about bringing care closer to our friends and neighbors in Conway,鈥� a spokesperson said in an email Thursday. 鈥淲e look forward to announcing specific plans in the future.鈥�

As shown on the developer鈥檚 conceptual plan, a portion of the building is located within the Federal Emergency Management Agency鈥檚 flood plain.

鈥淪ince it is a standalone ER, it is considered a critical care facility, and is not be placed in a flood zone,鈥� city planner Katie Dennis told the Conway Planning Commission on Thursday, Jan. 4.

Crunk Engineering, LLC, is requesting to annex and rezone nearly nine acres near the intersection of Mill Pond Road and Highway 501, city records state. The property is zoned Horry County highway commercial and the applicant is requesting it stay highway commercial, but under the city鈥檚 version of the zoning.

The vacant property has flood zones and includes a small portion of a floodway.

Either the building will have to be relocated on the tract, or the developer will have to fill in low-lying areas and seek a Letter of Map Amendment from FEMA showing that the land is no longer a part of the flood plain. Any attempt to raise the grade would require extensive hydrological studies prior to the work. If FEMA would decline to issue the flood map amendment, the proposed location of the building on the site would need to be altered.

鈥淚t鈥檚 just a concept plan; it鈥檚 not our final plan. We haven鈥檛 applied for that yet,鈥� said Adam Crunk of Crunk Engineering LLC of Nashville, Tennessee, the project engineer who was representing the property owner.

Crunk said the goal is to keep the building as close as possible to Highway 501, while steering well clear of the Crabtree Floodway, a drainage canal connecting Crabtree Swamp to the 糖心vlog官方入口 River.

Crunk, under questioning from the planning commission, said that long-range plans are for additional medical-related development on the 8.96 acre tract, which will eventually be combined with other adjoining parcels acquired by the applicant.

The nearly nine acres is currently owned by Mill Pond Conway LLC c/o HCA Health Services Inc. Grand Strand Health operates under HCA Healthcare. The property was purchased from Robert Richardson for $2 million in 2022.

City records state the parcel abuts a property that is already zoned city highway commercial.

City planning director Jessica Hucks said the applicant plans to use the property as medical facility and nearly nine acres will be combined with an adjacent property that is already in city limits.

City staff said there are currently no site plans, and if there are any plans to encroach in the flood zone or floodway, the developer must provide a no-rise or no-impact certification stating the proposed development will not create a rise within the floodplain.

In addition to the annexation and rezoning, the developer has asked the city to amend its future land use map from conservation preservation to highway commercial and conservation preservation.聽The property is identified under the conservation preservation zoning in city鈥檚 comprehensive plan because of the flood zones and the flood way.

Conway鈥檚 planning commission is set to make a recommendation on the request during its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The commission meets at 196 Laurel Street.

The city council will make a final decision on the request, which will require two separate readings. Another public hearing is scheduled for the council鈥檚 Feb. 5 meeting regarding the future land use map amendment.

Residents and Conway leaders have long expressed the need for more medical facilities in the western part of the county, particularly near the heart of Conway. Some fear not being able to have access to medical services when the 糖心vlog官方入口 River floods.

In 2021, McLeod Health has announced plans for a medical campus off El Bethel Road.