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Across the street from the home longtime West Columbia resident Carl Roberts grew up in, developers want to pack more than 50 townhomes on a dilapidated 3-acre lot.
“There’s going to be 52 units of people and automobiles and I think it’s going to put more stress on those streets and on that little system than it can very well take … [it] will be a problem just bringing that many people to the area,” Roberts said during a public hearing Jan. 27…