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News Date: 06/16/2026

News Title: Horry County’s “Industrial Corridor Amendment” supports long-term growth for new home communities
The Industrial Corridors amendment to the Imagine 2040 Comprehensive Plan establishes a strategic growth framework in Horry County that concentrates industrial businesses along major transportation corridors to create jobs and manage freight logistics. This plan implements buffer rules to separate heavy industrial activity from residential areas and serves as a long-term, non-retroactive guide for future land-use decisions.

As of June 2026, Myrtle New Homes tracks over 100 new home communities in the Horry County pipeline for future release – this amendment is expected to have a meaningful impact on how many of these projects are planned, sited, and ultimately brought to market.

For new home communities currently being planned, this amendment means developers will face stricter rules about where they can build and how they must design their layouts.  If a new neighborhood is planned near one of these designated industrial areas, developers must include mandatory green spaces, fences, or buffer zones to separate the homes from any nearby businesses.  Additionally, landowners who might have previously sold their acreage to a housing developer may now choose to sell to industrial companies instead, which will likely slow down the rapid spread of massive new subdivisions in these specific areas.  Finally, because the plan aims to keep heavy truck traffic locked onto major highways, it helps ensure that the roads leading into these newly planned neighborhoods stay quieter and safer for families.

The “Industrial Corridors” amendment to the Imagine 2040 Comprehensive Plan is expected to significantly influence how and where new master-planned communities are approved and developed.  By establishing clearly defined areas for logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing uses, Horry County is guiding future growth toward a more structured framework and moving away from the more dispersed development patterns seen over the past two decades.

In high-growth areas like Loris and Longs, open land is aggressively sought after by both home builders and commercial developers. This amendment signals to residential developers that parcels designated as industrial will be highly protected against residential rezoning requests.

To prevent fragmentation, the amendment discourages blending incompatible land uses. Developers will no longer easily buy up cheap, leftover acreage inside a manufacturing corridor to build a dense neighborhood

For new home communities planned immediately adjacent to a designated industrial corridor, the developer must design the community layout around the corridor's edge rules.

The Industrial Corridor Amendment specifies that secondary, low-impact uses (like tech parks or green spaces) must occupy the "fringe" or border.  New home communities in Horry County directly touching these fringes will likely face strict buffer setbacks, required berms, or mandatory privacy fencing to separate homes from light industrial neighbors.

Next steps in adopting Horry County’s Industrial Corridor Amendment include completing the public comment period, receiving a recommendation from the Horry County Planning Commission, followed by a recommendation from the Infrastructure and Regulation (I & R) Committee, and then three readings before Horry County Council, with the process expected to conclude around September 2026.

For more information of the Horry County’s “Industrial Corridor Amendment visit: Horry County Government

For more information on the future new home communities being planned in Horry County visit: Future Subdivisions Planned - Myrtle New Homes
Horry County’s “Industrial Corridor Amendment”



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