“The City of Charleston’s vision for Johns Island was shared with the community on Monday night, and compared with how controversial most meetings about development are on the island, it was an almost warm greeting of the plan,” Ken Hawkins reports for TheDigitel of Chaleston, SC.
“The Johns Island SmartCode is an attempt to allow the island to be developed, yet largely maintain the current rural feeling. As the city puts it: ‘The key point is to create a code that will protect what is treasured while continuing to allow the island to grow.’
“Behind the overall principle of the plan is the ‘SmartCode,’ which the project describes as: the SmartCode keeps towns compact and rural lands open, while reforming the destructive sprawl-producing patterns of separated use zoning...”
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