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2015-2025 Comprehensive Plan
Overview
Planning enables civic leaders, businesses, and citizens to play a meaningful role in creating communities that enrich people's lives and helps create communities that offer better choices for where and how people live. Good planning helps communities to envision their future by finding the right balance of new development and essential services, environmental protection, and innovative change.
The Comprehensive Plan is the document that reflects local values and is the legal foundation to guide Planning Commission and Council in addressing the physical, social, and economic development of the City. The SC Comprehensive Planning Enabling Act requires that communities adopt a new Comprehensive Plan based on nine required elements every 10 years and be updated every five years based on changes in growth patterns and economic shifts.
Process
Previous to the 2015-2025 Comprehensive Plan, the City’s last Plan was created in 2008. Due to the enormous changes in recent years in both development and population growth, City Council felt it was necessary to not only update the plan, but completely rewrite it. That process began in March 2014 and was completed in December 2014. In January 2019, the City began the process of the required 5-year update of the Comprehensive Plan. This process began with the establishment of a Steering Committee and four (4) Focus Groups. The Steering Committee is comprised of:
- 2 members of Council
- 2 members from the Planning Commission
- 2 citizens
The Focus Groups include:
- Land Use, Population and Priority Investment
- Economic Development, Housing and Transportation
- Community Facilities, Cultural Resources and Natural Resources
- Health (Bike & Pedestrian Planning)
Members of each Group are comprised of citizens, business leaders, civic representatives, City Boards and Commissions and City staff. The Focus Groups meet regularly each month and the Steering Committee meets quarterly to review the work of the Groups and drafts of the Plan. The work of the Groups will be completed in November with final adoption of the 2015-2025 Amended Comprehensive Plan by Council taking place in January 2020.
The 2015-2025 Comprehensive Plan
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