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Metro Planning Commission To Review Lady’s Island Plan Dec. 17; Keyserling Raises Issues

The Metro Planning Commission, representing Beaufort County, the Town of Port Royal and the City of Beaufort, will hear details of the Lady’s Island Plan at its Dec. 17 meeting at Beaufort City Hall, 6 p.m. This is the second official body to hear the plan. It was reviewed with the Northern Plan Implementation Committee […]

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Lady’s Island Plan, Lady’s Island Airport Expansion?

WORK MOVES FORWARD ON LADY’S ISLAND AREA PLAN Work on the “Lady’s Island Area Plan” continues, with the consultant and the ten-member steering committee getting down to details re: growth management issues. The first several meetings, and the initial public meeting on Feb. 21, have largely been devoted to data gathering, in an effort to

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60 Second Update: Jan 22, 2018

“Lady’s Island Area Plan” Underway At last Friday’s Northern Regional Plan Implementation Committee (NRPIC) meeting, county planner Rob Merchant detailed the approach and announced members of a steering committee for the “Lady’s Island Area Plan.” According to the County’s RFP, “The plan builds on existing plans, policies and studies including the Beaufort County Comprehensive Plan, the

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Whitehall Development: When Is Beaufort Obligated To Listen?

OPINION Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette November 9, 2017   Last spring, more than 400 people showed up at a meeting to help design a future for Lady’s Island. Out of this meeting and nine subsequent small group mapping sessions emerged “Five Principles for Future Growth on Lady’s Island: Inspired Development, Connected Transportation, Character Enhancement, Sunlight & Predictability,

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Jim Hicks: Zoning Unique To Lady’s Island

This column by Jim Hicks, appeared in the May 18 edition of The Island News. Reprinted here with permission. Lady’s Island was the first area of Beaufort County to implement the concept of Community Preservation zoning that was authorized by the 1997 Beaufort County Comprehensive Plan. The rationale for allowing certain areas that possessed unique

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