The James Island Intergovernmental Council approved a resolution calling for Charleston County, the Town of James Island and the City of Folly Beach to adopt moratoriums on James Island development consistent with that approved by Charleston City Council. The resolution also calls for the formation of a Joint James Island Planning Committee to be tasked with the development of a James Island Overlay Zoning District and a James Island Comprehensive Plan for the consideration of each jurisdiction's Planning Commission.
I moved the resolution be adopted and it was seconded by Mayor Tecklenburg.
Mayor Tecklenburg proposed to amend the resolution to add five proposals for the comprehensive plan for James Island which were related to five proposals for James Island planning and zoning that he had presented earlier in the meeting. These were affordable housing, the urban growth boundary, joint design review board, drainage improvements, and the Folly Road Overlay. I seconded his amendment. Both the amendment and the resolution passed unanimously.
The resolution calls for a representative of the planning department of each jurisdiction to meet and develop a specific proposal for the James Island Planning Committee to be approved by the governing body of each jurisdiction.
JIPSD Commissioner Eugene Platt made a motion for the moratorium to be extended to two years. County Councilman Joe Qualey said it would be difficult to get County Council to agree to even six months. Mayor Tecklenburg said that it was difficult to get City Council to agree to anything more than six month. Several members pointed out that the moratorium could be extended. (I doubt that everything considered in the resolution can come close to be completed in six months, but it might be possible for the City of Charleston and Charleston County to make some key changes in their zoning ordinances to make extension of the moratorium less pressing. We will see.) The motion for a two year moratorium was defeated.
The Intergovernmental Council heard reports about Rethink Folly Road including the Town's grant request from the Council of Governments to complete sidewalks from Camp Road to Ellis Creek. It also heard reports and saw preliminary maps for the proposed 1/2 cent sales tax projects for James Island--Central Park and Riverland, Fort Johnson and Secessionville, Fort Johnson and Camp, and sidewalks on Folly between Camp and George Griffith.
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