The Charleston County Greenbelt Advisory Board voted unanimously to recommend that County Council approve the Town of James Island and City of Charleston's application to use Greenbelt funds to purchase the property at the corner of Folly Road and Brantley Drive for "Brantley Park." They did make the recommendation conditional on the municipalities providing public access to the dock on the property.
This is a complication because the dock straddles the line between the proposed park and the neighboring property. Further, the current dock is permitted as a residential dock and to make it public it must be permitted as a community dock.
Everyone on James Island owes our Councilwoman Jenny Honeycutt thanks for her efforts to move this project forward. It will go to County Council's Finance Committee next week and then the Council Council.
The City and Town still have work to do. Negotiations with the property owner continue. Still, approval by the Greenbelt Board was an important step forward in this joint effort by the Town of James Island and the City of Charleston to improve Folly Road.
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