News Title:Highway 905 and Old Reaves Ferry Road in Conway are quickly emerging as a desirable destination for thoughtfully planned new home communities.
Old Reaves Ferry Road has quietly become one of the more strategically important inland corridors in the Conway / Carolina Forest growth pattern — especially from a residential land planning and development standpoint.
Old Reaves Ferry Road connects with Highway 905 - one of Horry County’s key north–south rural corridors, running from the North Carolina state line southward toward the Conway area. While Highway 905 doesn’t carry the commercial intensity of Highway 501 or Highway 17, it plays an important role in agriculture, rural residential growth, and inland connectivity.
From a land use perspective, frontage or access near Old Reaves Ferry Road and/or Highway 905 surely signals future subdivision viability.
A rezoning request was applied for in February 2026 to rezone approximately 210.26 acres along the intersection of Old Reaves Ferry Road and Highway 905 from Forest Agriculture (FA) to Multi-Residential District Preservation (MRD-P).
The MRD-P zoning district is relatively new to Horry County. In May of 2024, an Ordinance to amend the Zoning Appendix B of the Horry County Code of Ordinances pertaining to the Multi-Residential District was approved to establish the Multi-Residential Preservation (MRD-P) Zoning District.
The MRD-Preservation zoning district establishes design criteria for rural subdivisions. Collectively, a smaller minimum lot size becomes permissible for the exchange of greater setbacks, landscape buffers and the implementation of sustainable design criteria. The MRD-P zoning district allows a mixture of housing types; to include, single family and duplex dwellings, quadraplex, townhomes, zero lot-line development, tiny homes and multifamily.
The MRD-P zoning district will have more green and more open space, but potentially more homes closer together.
The hearing dates for this rezoning case are as follows:
March 26, 2026 - The 1st Planning Commission Hearing
April 2, 2026 - The 2nd Planning Commission Hearing
April 21, 2026 – Reading
May 5, 2026 – Public Comment
May 19, 2026 – Consent Agenda
As of February 2026, no further details regarding development of this property have been announced.
It is noteworthy to point out that another new home community being planned along Old Reaves Ferry Road, Westbury Plantation, sought to rezone from (1) Forest Agricultural (FA) - Agriculture, forestry, low-density residential, limited commercial (maximum size of 4,500 sq.ft.), social, cultural, recreational, and religious uses to (2) Multi-Residential One (MRD 1) back in early 2025. As of February 2026, there has been no approval for this rezoning. The proposed new home community of Westbury Plantation was initially seeking to develop 187 single family homes. Westbury Plantation LLC purchased this piece of property in December of 2023. Timing for additional action regarding the new home community of Westbury Plantation has not yet been announced.
Also of note - Lochaven (D. R. Horton), Grissett Landing (Great Southern Homes), and Padgett Lane (Hanco Construction) are a few of the new home communities currently under development in the same general area along Highway 905.