Title:ابزارهای برنامه ریزی و منطقه بندی برای حفظ جوامع تاریخی

این پخش اینترنتی در حال حاضر فقط برای مشاهده در دسترس است و دیگر برای اعتبارات AICP CM قابل استفاده نیست. حمایت شده توسط: کارولینای جنوبی شرح فصل: شهرستان چارلستون در قلب کریدور میراث فرهنگی گولا گیچی قرار دارد، یک منطقه میراث ملی تعیین شده توسط فدرال متشکل از جوامع مردم گولا گیچی، که از کارولینای شمالی تا فلوریدا امتداد دارد. در نواحی نامشخص شهرستان، آفریقایی‌آمریکایی‌ها پس از بازسازی جوامعی را ایجاد کردند و شخصیت اجتماعی متمایزی را حفظ کردند که در سال‌های اخیر، تحت فشارهای توسعه و رشد جمعیت قرار گرفته است. این جلسه به اشتراک می‌گذارد که چگونه اداره برنامه‌ریزی شهرستان تلاش‌های حفاظت از تاریخی را با اصول برنامه‌ریزی و منطقه‌بندی برای حفاظت از این مناظر منحصربه‌فرد فرهنگی و تشویق جوامع به شکوفایی در سال‌های آینده همراه کرده است.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast my name is christine dorsey davis i’m the executive director of the Ohio chapter of APA and chair of the New Urbanism Division and I’m your webcast moderator today is Friday July 6th and we’ll be hearing the presentation planning and zoning tools for preserving

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Presenting to you today I’m Andrea Petrus I’m the deputy director for the Charleston County South Carolina planning department and I’m also the president of South Carolina chapter of the American Planning Association presenting with me today is Andrea – Andrea Harris mom who is a Senior Planner with our department and scapa’s secretary

Treasurer so we’ll start off today’s presentation by discussing the history of settlement communities in Charleston County then we’ll talk about some of the planning efforts the county has implemented and is currently working on to preserve community culture and we’ll finish out by discussing the historic preservation project the county has

Recently undertaken to complement our planning efforts so now I’m going to turn it over to Andrew Harrison who will give us a brief history of settlement communities in Charleston County and hi everyone this is also Andrea so to give you all a little bit of background knowledge about what we’re going to be

Discussing so you’ll see here on the map Charleston County sits in the heart of the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage corridor which is a national heritage area designated 2006 by Congress the corridor stretches along the eastern coast from southern North Carolina to northern Florida and this area represents a significant story

Of local regional national and even global importance recognizing the Gullah Geechee people for maintaining their cultural traditions for centuries the intent of the designation of really to preserve and interpret the traditional cultural practices sites and resources along with all of EC people and there’s a Heritage Commission along with the corridors

Executive director who carries out the goals of the corridor designation which are to recognize sustain and celebrates the important contributions made to American cultural history by the Gullah Geechee people to associate local governments in public and private entities in South Carolina Georgia and North Carolina and Florida and

Interpreting the story of the Gullah Geechee and also to preserve the Gullah Geechee folklore arts crafts music and to assist in identifying and preserve a host sites historical data artifacts and objects associated with Billy Keats we people and the culture for the benefit and education of the public and just to

Note similar to like National Register designations and other federal designations this is an honorary designation and really there aren’t any protections afforded to these communities in the corridor unless they’re enacted by local authorities and so you are the goal of each if you’re not from the southeast or you live here

You may not be as familiar with this group of folks so the Gullah Geechee are descendants of African slaves brought to North America and the 1700 and 1800’s they descend from a diverse group of African countries and cultures and over time the different languages and culture is meshed to form a distinctive Gullah

Geechee language and many of the African traditions such as fishing practices and basket weaving have been passed on from generation to generation and if you come to Charleston and walk downtown you’ll see sweet rocks sweet grass basket stands and sweet grass basket weaving so it’s still very much an integral part of

The culture here and we’re very proud of this part of our history we have a lot of local arts and music festivals and venues that each or goal of singers and storytellers and we have annual festivals like the sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival and goal Iguchi cultural festivals that occur

Every year and so here the better the settlement communities following emancipation in Charleston County the Gullah Geechee african-americans were finally able to purchase their own lands and many of these groups settled near former plantations often near waterways and agricultural lands and so you’ll see on this map that Charleston County has a

Band of settlement communities rushing from the northern end of the county near the south near the Santee River down towards the Edisto River in the south and during the late 19th century and early 20th century segregation and Jim Crow laws restricted these communities from using certain community facilities

And so as a result these communities grew into self-sufficient towns little towns comprised of their own commercial services such as their own restaurants and stores and civic services parks schools cemeteries and community centers and nearly all of the settlement communities had social lodges that provided financial assistance food and

Other community services and these lodges are still often found today and some of them listed on the National Register of Historic Places and so up until 2015 Charleston County had not done a lot in the way of historic preservation and our last historic resources survey had been

Done in 1992 so it was fairly outdated and we knew that there were a lot of historic resources in the county that had not been recognized yet and we’re at a risk of being destroyed as the county develops and so in 2015 Charleston County hired new South associates to

Update the historic resources survey focusing on just unincorporated parts of the county and the most significant finding from this survey was the formal recognition of the African American settlement communities and the consultants that we hired new South associates they did an amazing job of researching these communities and really

Finding out more about how they settled over time highlighting the different development patterns and and the architectural styles and so in looking more closely at the different types of settlement communities it became evident that there were three main types in Charleston County and we’re going to talk about those there’s the remnant

Freedmen communities Land Commission static communities and planned land cooperative communities and so the first that is majority is the settlement communities in Charleston County are remnants of former save villages or early freedmen settlements and these are often located on former plantations where African Americans a mule family has accumulated

Parcels of land over time and so you can see here pictured on the last business of sulla Greek community on James Islands which we’ll talk a little bit about more later but oftentimes these communities have Long’s and see plots that maximize frontage on both the local roads and the waterways the parcels are

Often inconsistently sized ranging from 1 to 40 acres and over time the parcels have been subdivided so you have a typical subdivision patterns a lot of these parcels have become landlocked and are often adjacent to the waterways the land uses were typically clustered close to the road the p3 or setbacks sensors

Were often rare in these communities and a lot of times there were a lot of agricultural uses that was started in the past and have continued on into the future so the second type of community is the Land Commission platic communities and these were communities following emancipation the South

Carolina Land Commission which was established in 1868 they were tasked with purchasing former plantation tracts from owners and serving and subdividing these properties and selling it to landless black and white farmers and tradesmen and so these have a little bit more of a formalized plat pattern as you

Can see here on the slide the top right the top right photo is a lot of the phillips community from the 1800’s and then you can see the parcel boundaries as they are today on the bottom right the development pattern here there tend to be rectilinear Lots ranging from 7 to

۲۵ acres in size and the Lots are still usually oriented to the road and over time the lots of them subdivided 4cm le members and again census are rarely used a very open community with the families gathering their houses nearby one another and so cue samples of these

Communities in Charleston County as the Phillips community in the southern communities and not Plaza and so the last type of settlement community that was identified in our historic resources survey where as upset land land cooperative communities and these communities were started by a members basically in cooperatives that were often funded by development

Companies and so here in the Carlson area the Charleston lien company was a cooperative that purchased the land for the scam linville community and mount doesn’t and this is more of a traditional neighborhood style you can see on the plat on this on the slide that there are often gridded street

Plans that had more consistent last sizes and the neighborhoods usually had agricultural area designated and there was usually just one resident for a lot and we were more publicly to find community spaces and the company that would fund the cooperative would also usually assume responsibilities operating like a modern-day homeowners

Association in some ways and would preside over farming issues within the communities they would sometimes you know help settle disputes between shareholders or subscribers they would help create mutual benefit funds for some of the community members and they would also manage the public spaces and community areas like the cemeteries or

Parks and so as part of the historic resources survey update it was determined that four of the african-american settlement communities were designated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under criterion a which highlights the community planning and the development for retaining various settlement patterns established decades following

Anticipation and the black ethnic heritage for the Gullah Geechee heritage and the resource of survey update did note that sixteen other communities they could possibly be eligible for the National Register with further research and so one of the things that we’ll talk about a little bit later that’s often

Common in the settlement area on settlement communities as heirs properties this is something that is common I think throughout the south but what is Eric’s property for those that you may not be familiar with it there’s property results from poverty being transferred from generation to generation without the presence of the

Will or estate plan and as a family member passes away without the will the land is left to the living heirs and as generations pass away the list of heirs will take armed with a stake in the land increases and so in some cases hundreds of areas my own have ownership of one

Parcel of land and so why is heirs property sometimes an issue Africa may not agree with how to deal with the property there might be force partitions that are necessary and lot could sometimes happen through the court system and also lands may be lost you to

Talks to fall as heirs to not pay the property taxes if there’s a disagreement among among the heirs an heiress property has land development implications if there’s lack of clear title and ownership sand that can prevent yours from subdividing land rezoning property or developing and complying with all of the applicable

Regulations but heirs property is also an important part of the history of settlement communities and it should be preserved there’s property of tied to the traditions of Gullah Geechee culture with land ownership being very meaningful and symbolic and many settlement communities have remained intact because of Eros property is a

Tradition of family owned land and local organizations such as the center for error t preservation here in charleston helps families keep their land and resolve errors property issues and historically so many settlement areas settlement communities have worked closely with Charleston County over the years and have had a strong voice

Whenever projects and requests are going through the legislative process in Charleston County is rapidly growing in many of the settlement communities and the specifically the county’s urban and suburban area has felt development pressures due to large amounts of vacant land available in these communities as a result the communities have recently

Banded together to create the african-american settlement communities historic commission and they’ve been working closely with the town of Mount Pleasant and us at the Charleston County Planning Department and other departments to ensure the settlement communities are recognized and preserved in the years to come and so now I’m

Going to turn it over to Andrea who’s going to talk about some of our planning efforts here to preserve the settlement communities all right so like Andrea said we are now going to talk about the planning tools the county has implemented to preserve the culture of these historic

Communities first we’ll talk about the adoption of the county’s first comprehensive plan back in 1999 and the subsequent zoning and land development regulations ordinance that implemented the policies of the plan and those policies did include settlement areas provisions to help protect and preserve our resort communities and then we’ll

Discuss how the county worked with the residents of our historic communities to strengthen preservation and planning efforts through subsequent reviews and updates of a comprehensive plan and community planning projects in 1994 South Carolina State law changed to require jurisdictions that had zoning and/or land development regulations to adopt a comprehensive plan Charleston

County had never had a comprehensive plan and so this was sort of our our first first time doing one and we adopted our first plan on April 20th 1999 after a two-year long planning process prior to the adoption of the plan there were no density restrictions in the county other than a 30,000

Square-foot mental and lot size to allow room for septic tanks and well since the majority of the unincorporated area was and still is not served by public water or sewer previous zoning also included some land use restrictions based on zoning districts the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan in 1999 repealed all

Of that previous zoning can instituted a suburban rural area edge which eventually became an urban growth boundary as a growth management tool and then the map and the right you can see the dotted black line is that edge everything on the east and west side of

It is in the rural area as where infrastructure really doesn’t exist to serve development so that’s very low density and everything on the inside of it down into the Charleston Peninsula that’s the urban suburban area where the infrastructure and services exist and that’s where we wanted to see growth

Occur as part of the plan it included new density restrictions by future land use designation which we had never had before and it drastically reduced the densities allowed in the rural area to as low as one unit per acre one unit per eight acres one unit

Per ten acres one unit for 15 acres and in some cases one unit for 25 acres but it did allow increased densities in the urban and suburban area to drive the growth into that area so as you can imagine these lower densities in the rural area were not particularly popular

With many of the property owners there and so it took about another year and a half for the county to adopt the new zoning and land development regulations ordinance otherwise known as the cldr but contain the regulations to implement the new policies of the Comprehensive Plan and the cldr was finally adopted on

November 20th of 2001 so this is the future land use map that was adopted as part of the 1999 comprehensive plan so again you can see the suburban rural area edge and that the black dotted line the pink areas on the eastern and western ends of the county that’s the

Resource management future land-use category that carries our lowest density the maximum density of one unit for 25 acres on the eastern end of the county this is mostly the Francis Marion National Forest and the lands on the western side of the county are generally timber operations owned by companies

Like Midwest Vega the settlement areas were defined as part of the 1999 comprehensive plan and these areas were only located in the rural areas of the county they’re shown in purple on this map Cinci some here on Edisto Island some in Western Charleston County on Wadmalaw Island and then out in the East

Cooper area of the county near McClellanville and ala da I’m they’re really small older Crossroads communities family lands waterfront lands and vacant land I have been subdivided into Lots for residential use they were recommended for the agricultural residence or future land use designation in the plan and that designation was intended for

Agricultural and single-family residential uses and had a density range of one unit for five acres on the low end to one unit per acre on the high end and the one unit per acre designation is was the highest density that was allowed in the work area and that was intentional to

Allow for further subdivision of these properties in many of the counties historic communities seems to be in the rural area were designated as settlement areas through this process when the develop zoning and land development regulations ordinance was finally adopted in 2001 those settlement area properties were zoned in the agricultural residential district and

That district allowed agricultural single-family residential land uses at the maximum end of that density range from the comprehensive plan so they were allowed on one unit per acre maximum density as I mentioned many of the counties rural historic communities which included Germantown Parker’s Ferry Adams run Osborne and Jericho for place

In the settlement areas and were subsequently zoned agricultural residential this had some unintended side effects including that this new zoning district agricultural residential ended up zoning out the small neighborhood businesses that historically existed in the communities many of those businesses have shut their doors over the years and can no longer

Be reopened because of the zoning regulations as you can imagine many of these communities are located very far from gas stations grocery stores doctors offices and other services and have to drive long distances to access new services since the zoning would no longer let them be located nearby the

Fix for this came with a 2015 five year review of the Comprehensive Plan which I’ll discuss in just a couple of minutes before we get to that though I want to talk about a similar unintended consequence that was created by the 1999 comprehensive plan in 2001 zoning and land development regulations ordinance

For properties that were located in that urban and suburban area the 1999 plan created a future land-use category for the urban and suburban area that was called residential special management the future land use designation was defined as including established communities interspersed with large tracts of lands and communities with

Lifestyles that were more rural than suburban and which have mixed density residential pattern virtual institutional office development was recommended to be allowed in these communities to offer services to the residents and some rural uses that would not typically be found in the suburban area such as farming were recommended

These properties are shown in dark green on these to future land use maps and that one on the top left this is James Island these are unincorporated areas and you saw before Andrew was talking about Sol agree that was one of them that’s right here and to the north of

That this is the Grimble farm community on the bottom mount map on the bottom right this is the East Cooper area we’ve got a bunch of communities that are in the rifle range corridor we’ve got Whitehall and Copa he got the Philips community which Andrea talked about and

The snout and community which Andrea also talked about these are recommended for a density of one unit per acre up to three units per acre the 2001 zoning and land development regulations ordinance implemented that residential special management future land use designation through the up car one rural residential

Zoning district which allowed a density of up to 2.75 dwelling units per acre and limited land uses to single-family residential and some rural uses crop production chickens and so forth it did not however allow any uses that would offer services to residents which was out of character with the definition of

The future land use designation so as was the case with the settlement area designation the residential special manager designation again zoned out the small neighborhood businesses that had historically exist in these communities and in addition portions of these communities were being developed in ways that eroded their culture so a lot of

Development in these communities because they were in the urban and suburban area and portions of them were being annexed by other jurisdictions that resulted in inconsistent zoning and land use regulation so now let’s talk about what the county did to address these issues for our historic communities in both the

Rural area and the urban and suburban areas sweetgrass baskets and special consideration area was one of the first ways we addressed the zoning issues in our communities and this was in the 2006-2007 timeframe residents of the historic communities located in area shown on this map between highway 17 north or Shaye’s

Bluffs Road rifle range Road the south and then the Isle of Palms connector approached the county about the issues created by new development in the area part of the area is incorporated in the town of Mount Pleasant and part is unincorporated the town areas are shown

In gray in this map and all the other colors indicate areas that are unincorporated the residents were concerned that new development was not in character with historic land development patterns and they’re also concerned with the development of high intensity commercial uses along Highway 17 north in this area to address these

Concerns the county and the town of Mount Pleasant got together and worked with a coastal community Foundation which is a nonprofit organization here in Charleston to engage the residents and identify their vision of the future for the area the project which included a year of community meetings resulted in

The sweetgrass baskets and special consideration area which is essentially an overlay district that was adopted in 2007 there will a district created land use design and development requirements based on what we heard from the residents both the town and county adopted identical standards that address the concerns of the residents created

Consistency and discourage jurisdiction shopping the map that you see here shows again the overlay district area and again the areas in gray are in the town of Mount Pleasant and the areas in green blue and orange are unincorporated the overlay district reinforced the importance of sweetgrass baskets and by

Encouraging them along the highway 70 North corridor it allowed limited commercial uses along the frontage of highway 17 north which is shown in this orange sort of hatch marked color combine them to within 500 feet of the right-of-way line and instituted maximum building size limitations and design

Standards to ensure they fit in with a character of the community the overlay district also limited the old Georgetown loop office area which is shown here in blue the office and residential uses and instituted new design and development standards to protect the residential community to the south well Georgetown

Road and it restricted all other development to single-family detached residential development which is the green areas have lot sizes consistent with those of the existing historic communities which are typically on the order of 14,500 square feet plus in addition the or play allows accessory dwelling units to be located on Lots

That don’t necessarily comply with the county’s requirements for accessory dwelling units the county requires one and a half times the minimum lot size and in these areas in the overlay districts the regulations were written to allow just the minimum lot size to be required for accessory dwelling unit

Development these changes have seemed to work well over the years although there have been if some tweaks to the regulations over time that were made in coordination with the town and residence just recently we’ve heard from residents of the old Georgetown Alta sloop area who want to revisit the overlay to allow

More retail uses not just the office uses in this particular area so we’ll be working with the residents and account on this over the next year or so annex action the county took was to add a new rural cultural community protection future land use category and rename and redefine the residential

Special management designation as part of the five-year review of the comprehensive plan that was adopted in 2015 the new cultural community protection future land use designation was intended as an alternative to the settlement areas designation for historic communities in the rural area but it did not replace it and including

A maximum density of up to one unit per acre to allow for increased subdivisions for properties currently in lower density categories but stated up to subdivision and development to protect and promote the culture and unique development patterns of existing communities and sustain their strong sense of community plan recommends that

Future development in these areas should be compatible with the existing community and that residences agricultural forestry churches cemeteries cultural and historic buildings schools post offices and so forth should be allowed in addition it recommends that compatible businesses and office should be allowed to offer services and employment opportunities for local residents provided the

Building scale and coverage fits with existing structures it also states that the zone and development regulations in these areas should be customized to meet the needs of the individual communities only one community the parkers fairy community in western Texas and Counting was assigned this particular designation

In the plan and 2015 and that was because staff had been in the process of working with that community to develop a community plan and overlay zoning district since 2013 and these particular changes to the future land use designation were all part of that process the idea was that other

Communities that the description of the designation could request the comprehensive plan amendment the assignment future land-use category in the future if they so desired and the request would be up to County Council to say yes or no to on a case-by-case basis this was intentional in order to balance

The need to create more customized zoning for our historic communities with protecting against allowing a density of one dwelling unit per acre all over the rural area of the county which is not what we wanted to do a date no other communities has requested this future land use designation 2015 comprehensive

Plan review also replaced the residential special management future land use designation with the urban and suburban cultural community protection future land use designation the definition of this new designation was similar to that of the rural cultural community protection designation we just discussed but it was intended for the

Historic communities in the urban and suburban area it increased near maximum density recommendations from three units day group per acre to four units per acre and it placed emphasis on creating customized zoning to meet the needs of the individual communities this is our future land use map that was adopted as

Part of the 2015 comprehensive plan review it shows the rural cultural community protection future land use designation for the parkers ferry community Western Charleston County which is the sort of light brown color where my cursor is and it shows the urban suburban cultural community protection designation for the historic

Communities in the urban and suburban area you can see those Whitehall Kofi Phillips thousand resin trans Road corridor and then over a solid creek Grimble farm red top and West Lashley and cost the road up in the North Area now let’s talk about how these future land use designations have been implemented

Through the Parker’s ferry community plan the rural area and the solar grid community plan for the urban and suburban area I’m going to talk about the Parker’s ferry plan and Andrea Harris long will discuss this all agree plan this map shows the Parker’s ferry area in the county it’s located in an

Unincorporated area with the Western Charleston County near the intersection of Parker’s Ferry Road in Savannah highway which is also highway 17 south just west of the town of Hollywood Ravenel and Megan which are also fairly small rural towns it’s in the rural area rural area of the county and is made up

Of several smaller settlement communities including Jericho Osborne Parker’s Ferry and Adams run that all identify as the Parkers ferry community it’s surrounded by large tracts of land some of which are vacant or in conservation easements and several of which are in agricultural and/or timber production so Matt on the bottom left

Here shows the general location of the Parker’s Ferry area in County and the map right shows the 1600 or so properties in that brownish color that are included in the Parker’s ferry community and this this boundary was drawn by the residents that attended this meeting the project began in 2012

When representatives of the community approached accounting regarding issues the zoning in the area we’re creating including the inability to subdivide property due to densities of one unit for 8 acres or lower the lack of employment opportunities the lack of businesses and services in close proximity and the need for infrastructure improvements starting in

۲۰۱۳ staff works with the community members to define a study area boundary that you just saw a community name and complete a community needs survey results of the survey and the community input were used to identify specific community needs and the potential solution current with these meetings was a five-year review of

Charleston County Comprehensive Plan in 2015 where that new rural cultural community protection future land use designations that we discussed earlier was adopted and that was tailored to the community needs and it opened the door for us to do this community plan and an overlay zoning district that especially that addressed that community’s needs

Regarding density and subdivision issues it’s important to note here that the success of this project is really due to the community support and dedication to it they were absolutely amazing there were at least 125 people at every meeting that we had it was always standing room only and 99.9 percent of

Them were on the same page regarding what they wanted to their community so it really made our job easy we even received a hundred percent response rate on the community needs survey many community members also attended each Planning Commission and council meeting during the adoption process even though where we were

Holding the meetings the County Building was at least 45 minutes from where they lived it was just that important to them to make sure that their desires those of their community were clear and that county council approved what they were asking for so it really was a very

Rewarding process for us in that respect as I said and we had amazing response to the community needs survey the main issues that came out of the survey included zoning regulations that had zoned out commercial uses making the small businesses that had historically been in the community such as general

Stores and social clubs non-conforming this slide shows some of the businesses that have once operated in the parkers ferry community also of issue were land development regulations that impeded the subdivision of lands especially for family members and as Andrea mentioned heirs property issues were big were big

In this and again those include the potential for families to lose their land at the annual tax sale if the errors failed a coordinated on paying annual tax bills and also an issue that land without clear title cannot be subdivided so a community plan that describes the community needs and

Includes strategies to address those needs resulted from this effort a community plan addressed not only planning and zoning issues but of also employment and economic development Public Works and transportation issues and public service needs the idea was that our planning staffs would work with the community to implement the planning and zoning

Related strategies of the community plan and then would put the community representatives in contact with the appropriate agencies and organizations to address the other plan strategies that were sort of outside the planning and zoning world County Council adopted the community plan in 2016 and planning staff immediately Bank began working

With the community to address the planning and zoning related strategies through an overlay zoning district customized to meet their needs the Parker’s Ferry community overlay zoning district was developed in concert with the residents of the community and was adopted by County Council in 2017 it addresses primary community needs and

Issues by preserving the unique cultural heritage of the community improving the potential for retail and public services as well as employment opportunities and increasing the accessibility to subdivide and develop property it also creates two development districts the residential areas and business nodes and commercial properties show you where

Those are just a minute this slide shows the residential areas there in yellow and the commercial little properties and business modes are shown in red the residential areas of the overlay district allows additional flexibility for these parcels allows an expansion in the number of homes increasing a density

Up to one unit per acre for all of these properties it allows flexible lot requirements to enable subdivision really just basing that minimum lot size on the amount needed for wells and septic tanks because there is no public water or sewer in this area an increased ability to develop accessory dwelling

Units and more flexibility for home occupations as well as allowing additional uses in the residential areas that you might not find in other communities this is the same that you just saw but now we’re going to concentrate on the business nodes and commercial properties the business nodes we identified their location and concert

With the community so there were other communities set to them and then we did a lot of work on the types of uses that they the community wanted to see in this area we came up with these six business nodes all parcels that were in a commercial zoning district previous to the overlay

Retain their commercial zoning commercial properties are those properties that are zoned commercial in the overlay but are not located in a business node so we have six nodes and then we have sort of a scattering of commercial properties I mean those scattering of commercial properties were either properties that were zoned

Commercially prior to the overlay we didn’t want to take that away from them or they were ones that were zoned commercially as part of this process and there also was an allowance for accessory dwelling units with the same restrictions as residential areas for accessory dominance market area community plan projects achieved the

Goal of improving zoning and land development regulations to meet the needs of the community but more importantly than that it gave the community a sense of ownership and empowerment many residents have since become very active in pursuing the other implementation strategies of a plan and they’ve also begun attending council

Meetings to request improvements and services for their community and to monitor and comment on the decisions being made and their impact on their community which we didn’t see that from these folks before that was that was great so now I will turn it back over to Andrew Harris mons who’s going to talk

About the sole agree planning project so we mentioned this all agree a little bit earlier but the Sala Greek community is shown here on the map it’s located I’m James Island which was a little bit west southwest of Charleston and it’s right before you reached Wylie beach if you’re

Driving and you’re familiar with the Charleston area at all it’s in the urban suburban area of the county and you know this community was first settled post-reconstruction near the former Grimbold plantation and it was so divided then it’s a long lot farms with access to both the waterways and on the

North and south sides of the community and the main road that accesses the community which is filigree road which my cursor is following here it’s the main road into the community and filigree was designated as eligible for the National Register as part of our 2016 historic resources survey update

Quality thrive throughout the 20th century as a small community having many small businesses such as sacrament seafood which is pictured here a commercial fishing operation with a shrimp stock at the end there were several general stores and ice cream snack shops there’s mesquita beach which was a tourist area for african-americans

In the mid 20 min 19th century or 20th century and it was one of the few beaches actually available in the area in the midst of segregation so it’s a historical landmark in its own regard what’s the adoption of the new zoning ordinance in 2001 as Andrea mentioned

The majority of the commercial zoning and this area was changed to residential zoning resulting in legal non-conforming uses and the subdivision standards that were adopted at that time did not consider the unusually long skinny lots and filigree other community issues similar to Parker’s Ferry was Harpers Ferry was that there were heirs property

And on James Island a threat of gentrification due to rising lien costs and the development of vacant parcels James Island is one of them pricier areas in the county being close to the ladder in the beach and so residents were worried that property taxes would

Go up and the values with price them out of their community it’s also a result of community issues and concerns County Council’s directed staff to work with the community to create a community plan and an overlay zoning district and the project is really successful in large part because of the concerned citizens

Of Seoul agree group we’ve helped facilitate community surveys stakeholder meetings and community workshops and such like the per Chris Barrie project we had an overwhelming amount of support from the residents participation from the residence we met at the community center here and every every meeting was full we were often and

Standing-room-only and had well over 100 people and this community is really not that big they’re only about 300 parcels so it’s a much smaller community but we had great participation and so once the community plan was are created we worked with citizens to create overlay zoning district organs which

Really was the heart of how we were addressing the most pressing issues that have been brought to our attention the lack of neighborhood commercial uses that were historically present and the traditional sub position standards so the overlays winning district helps you and also ensure that we could preserve and promote the unique development

Patterns that had been identified in the 2006 to the survey update after several months of working with a community of Sujatha really regulations we had a overlay zoning districts that established flexible subdivision standards for the long narrow Lots and we did this by decreasing the setbacks and adding minimum lot size and

Decreasing the minimum lot sizes and adding maximum building sizes to keep housing in scale with a neighborhood character and lot sizes overlay also allows for the redevelopment of properties that had historically been commercial we worked meticulously with the residents to refine the list of allowable uses and include development

Standards to ensure that redevelopment was consistent with the community character and we also relaxed standards for home occupations and accessory dwelling units we knew that many of the residents already had home businesses and they’d like to continue to do that or have the opportunity to do them in

The future and we also knew that there was an interest in having accessory dwelling units for family members and historically multiple homes have been on the I’ve been built on lot so we increased the maximum building size for accessory dwelling units remove to the minimum lot size for accessories or mean

If it also allowed separate electrical meters and so this Mike the Parkers very overlay has two different areas the residential area in the commercial area and in the residential area since this is mostly a residential community this was the most impactful for the majority of the residents this table can really

Compares what the current zoning was and then what the overlay zoning allowed for residents we’re looking at the table on the left the options there that’s what the zoning was prior to the overlay being adopted it was in the special management 3 zoning district that we had talked about

And this is still an option for residents if you’re an owner in this community and you don’t have one of those long narrow Lots that makes it hard to develop and you can still develop under the previous zoning regulations however if you are in a situation where you have a

Long narrow lot that will conform to the current zoning standards then the column on the right really allows for more development options so if you do the overlay development option there is a requirements that’s what a lot that you have is less than 110 feet in width and

We added a lot of flexibility here decreasing the minimum lot area to 10,000 square feet decreasing the minimum lot width to 50 feet we decrease the setbacks and then also the maximum building size was added and this was something that we heard from residents they wanted to ensure that you know the

Size of homes didn’t pick out like a sore thumb compared to what was already in the in the community and they also wanted to make sure that it was in scale with the smaller a lot sizes so if you use the overlay development option than the maximum building size is 2500 square

Feet and so we knew that if we were going to work with the residents to allow commercial uses to come back into the community we wanted to make sure that they were what the residents wanted and so we worked very closely with the community at several different meetings

To identify where and what types of commercial uses they wanted and in the end they really just wanted to see the parcels where small businesses that formerly been do you have the opportunity to redevelop and this ended up being in three main areas of the community there’s the mesquita beach area which

Has traditionally been a tourist and recreation area in the past with several different restaurants in a small hotel and search day when did she restaurant still exist and special events take place in the area in the middle of the community there were two old snack and convenience stores that had closed

Several years ago in the community one of these two possibly redevelop into neighborhoods commercial uses and so those were identified as commercial and you can see those here the buildings obviously need a lot of work that there’s some good potential there for a neighborhood snack shop or convenience

Store and then the last area is where Backman seafood and the seashore lodges and and this was at the intersection of sulla gray and old Siliguri Road and the community really thought that this could be sort of the best downtown and so agree we heard that one of the meetings

And so this is identified as a commercial node and the sea-shore lodge actually has been listed on the National Register and we’re sort by the community and sort of a community landmark so this was a good commercial potential for that community and so what a filigree and Parker’s ferry project they serve as

Examples of where we were able to get excellent community engagement applies planning principles and cultural preservation to come out with great projects that preserve communities that are critical to our community I mean the history of Charleston County a settlement areas are critical to that so these have really served as examples

We’re not just the county but I think other jurisdictions we’ve been working closely with the town of Mount Pleasant as they are working on their comprehensive plan updates you possibly do an energy restriction or project similar to this with the settlement communities in their jurisdiction and the county was also recognized by the

Local preservation organization historic Ralston foundation for our survey a state project and the parkers ferry and filigree community projects and so these neat preservation projects have really drawn attention to a different history in Charleston that should be recognized more and lastly we are in the middle of our ten-year update of the comprehensive

Plan and we have been working to update our cultural resources element to include the findings of our 2016 survey update and coordinate with the town of Mount Pleasant and the African American settlement community’s historic Commission and we are adding a new strategy to support the continuing of our community planning work done and

Perko Syrian filigree and we hope to expand it to the other settlement communities throughout the county and so Andrey is going to talk a little bit about some of our other two short preservation planning projects okay so in closing we want to mention two additional ongoing projects that are

Intended to help preserve a historic community amendments to the county’s historic preservation ordinance and the National Park Service civil rights grant we recently received to do an oral history project with former students of one of the equalization schools located on James Island the county is currently considering amendments to its existing

Historic preservation regulations to clarify and improve them they’re currently very short they are somewhat unclear on what they are intended to protect so we’ve been working with a consultant and a committee of our Planning Commission for several years now to improve upon them the proposed regulations that are currently in the

Adoption process set up a historic preservation commission establish a process for County Council’s to create a list of locally significant historic properties and districts this is a voluntary process and will require property owners to sign the application to go through this process we call this a designation of historic property

Process and it creates a process by which proposed changes to County designated and National Register listed historic properties and district can be reviewed and determined by the Historic Preservation Commission and this is called a certificate of historic appropriateness process as Andrea mentioned when she was talking representatives of our historic

Communities have been very supportive of these ordinance amendments they see it as a way to protect their communities if they can get their communities designated as historic through this process will be more able to protect them from development and redevelopment that is out of character with our historical cultural and architectural

Characters and as I mentioned these amendments are still in the adoption process they are on the July 24th county council agenda for second reading and in South Carolina counties are required to have three readings so hopefully they will be in place in August or September Charleston County government was recently awarded an african-american

Civil rights grant to conduct an oral history project the project is wholly funded by the US Department of the Interior and the National Park Service we are in the process of putting out a request for proposals for consulting services for this project the purpose of the is to interview alumni from W aggressive

Mega elementary in high school which taught grades 1 through 12 for african-american students school is constructed as part of the South Carolina equalization program which was enacted by lawmakers in 1951 state program allocated public funding construction of new schools and renovations of existing schools with the intent of dedicating most funding to

African-american schools the program was a reaction to the impending desegregation of schools which was federally mandated in 1954 with the US Supreme Court decision Brown versus Board of Education preservation efforts for the W agression mega school began recently a local nonprofit organization the Heritage Community Development Corporation has informed preserve the

School and create an exhibit on the South Carolina equalization program and specifically life as a student attending W Gresham Megan in the midst of the civil rights movement the school itself has recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places the oral history project will involve working closely with the Heritage

Community Development Corporation other community stakeholders we’ve already had a few meetings with them about this the oral histories will provide insight on the lives of African American students in the midst of desegregation the stories and experiences paired with academic research on the civil rights movement will allow historians to better

Understand the cultural impacts of segregation and desegregation the grant products will be used by the county and local public institutions and nonprofits such as the Charleston County Public Library the School District the College of Charleston Avery Research Institute and so forth for preservation planning heritage tourism development and education if

You’re looking for more information on the topics that we discussed today you can visit any of the websites that are listed here and that concludes our presentation we really appreciate your attention please feel free to call or email Andrea with any questions that don’t get answered during the Q&A

Session today or if you have any opportunities to collaborate our contact information is shown here on this slide so now we’re happy to open up the Q&A session great thank you okay let’s get started because we have quite a few questions here to get through first one how our local governments

Encouraged to implement recommendations of the historical quarter we work with the local government to try to create consistent design standards and other other planning standards right now I guess the next step we have is with the town of Mount Pleasant will be the next one that we work with and they’re

Working through their Comprehensive Plan Update in South Carolina we’re all on the same sort of schedule for our comprehensive plans since state law changed and we were all required to adopt one by the end of 99 and we’re all required to have five year reviews and ten years updates which is good because

We all sort of do it at the same time so so we’ll be working with with the town on that okay next question what is the difference between rural residential and agricultural residential is it due to different densities what is it yes so the rural residential has a slightly

Different density than the Agricultural residential the real residential is intended to be sort of a buffer outside of our urban growth boundary and has a density of three or one one unit per three acres where as agricultural residential is one unit per acre and the agricultural residential correlated with

A settlement area studying the Andrea mentioned that we did in 2001 and then there was another rural residential at the time it was our r1 and that was for the urban suburban area they had higher densities of up to three units per acre and slightly less rural uses okay great

Thank you um and when you were talking about septic is the four units per acre permitted on septics is that a problem yeah that’s a problem that that wouldn’t happen yeah that’s a maximum density so you would need to get sewer in order to to make that happen okay next question does the

Comprehensive plan provide any recommendations which directly address an inevitable severe hurricane and/or a sea rise due to climate change yep so we actually are in the process of doing a resiliency element of the comprehensive plan one of the strategies that has come out of our current tenure

Update is to address resiliency more in the comprehensive plan it hasn’t really talked about it too much to this point so we’re wrapping up our 10-year update right now and once that’s adopted this fall then we have a subcommittee forums of Planning Commission to work on resiliency and have it be more present

Through the comprehensive plan thank you why do you think the earlier comprehensive plans fell so short in terms of accommodating the unique needs of the special communities were there any targeted outreach to these communities or is that something that is only happening more recently I think it was understand what a comprehensive plan

Was because it was the first time the county had been required to do one so they were doing their best study that that plan is about 500 pages long and it has strategies for not only a county but all kinds of other organizations so I think that maybe this wasn’t real clear

On what they were supposed to be doing and what the plan was supposed to have in it they had a consultant at the time I think it was just sort of overwhelming and maybe that got lost in kind of a shuffle unfortunately and it was sort of an unintended consequence of that

Actually the comprehensive plan did mention that that those particular areas should have some service uses to allow a year to for the residents it just didn’t get translated into the new zoning ordinance so I think I think it was just an issue of it just kind of no one

Realized it was happening it was completely unintended they knew they were trying to give them the the one unit per acre or the higher density that the issue of the services became a problem and so now yeah we are trying much harder to go back in the county has you have

Renewed focus on historic preservation like Andrews taught me about with our survey update and these new projects and the historic preservation ordinance we’ve got going through the adoption process now okay thank you you had indicated that there were community meetings held at a county facility which was about a 45-minute drive away from

The community was that an issue did with were there considerations of trying to host it closer to the residence why or why not so all of the community meetings whenever we were going through the process of creating the community plan creating overlay which were held in the

Community so for Parker’s Ferry we went out to the will town community center which is right in the heart of where everyone lives there and so agreed we met at the filigree community center which is right in the middle of the community the meetings were held at our

Building where once it was going through the adoption process so our Planning Commission and County Council meetings were held here and so that’s what Andrew was speaking about was we were so thrilled that the community made the 45-minute drive into town to attend those adoption process meetings but all

Of the community meetings leading up to that were held in the community okay great thanks um the sole agree which by the way I don’t understand how it’s spelled one way and pronounced a completely different way like I just I don’t even understand it’s spelled le GA

Re and just say it Legree and there’s I don’t know whatever anyway so what’s the origin of this name we want to know did the name predate the Civil War was a name by the people who inhabited it during you know the reconstruction could you just if you know yeah I’ve heard a

Few different things but I’m not sure for sure so I don’t want to say something that’s wrong I’ve heard a seed of our origin stories okay um next question we were going back to the septic I see three units per acre per minute on septics again the question isn’t that a

Problem with septic high water table drainage etc realize the three units vary from the four units per acre they were only recommended for both the communities in the urban and suburban area where for the most part public water and public sewer are accessible now there are some cases whether or not

And again that’s just a maximum density there’s no guarantees that you’re gonna get that based on you know high water table septic issues if you have to be on septic gran trees wetlands marsh areas and other factors it’s just a maximum calculation of the number of units you

Can get based on the lot size that you have thank you this is an interesting question was is there interest or need at all to create similar overlays and land use for historic districts or the historic areas I mean that are not associated with settlement communities

Um so in the county we have a lot of unincorporated areas that are the settlement communities but then we had one community in the West Ashley area the DuPont walkthrough area and that was a mixture of city of Charleston E in the county and so that was an effort where

We worked with out community to do a community plan and they didn’t have as much that was recognized as historic but I think that that’s something that came out of the community plan that we needed to do a historic resource survey of that area to find out what the historic

Resources were but there was definitely just local community history there that took the residents felt passionate about preserving and so whenever we were planning with them that came through in the community plan in the overlay thank you um do you know if there are any regulations in South Carolina or Charleston County really

To minimizing impacts to the to Wetlands and if so is there consideration in the zoning and land use categories specifically for coastal communities okay so we have two types of wetlands we’ve got the OCR on critical line areas which are at the marsh areas and then we’ve got freshwater wetlands both so we

Do require fairly large buffers and setback from the critical line for all development including signal family detached residential we don’t have any buffers from the freshwater wetlands but you know the Army Corps has jurisdiction over those so we use at all and helps us with our CRS rating which is done

Through our Building Services Department between that and our lower densities in the rural area of the county and of course we have you know the requirements for FEMA and we just went to a two-foot freeboard couple of summers ago and in our Building Code which also helps out

Okay thank you this question we are struggling with a council who doesn’t view preservation as an important piece of the overall puzzle did you experience any of this and if so how did you create buy-in from the elected level that’s a loaded question good luck um for us it

Was sort of a grassroots effort over the years you know if you look at our ordinance today our Historic Preservation regulations are only about you know a half a page you don’t have a Historic Preservation Commission we don’t even have a design review board are those just your powers if you

Weren’t really interested in that when we were going through the process of the comprehensive plan back in 1999 and then the 2001 ordinance you know of course the city of Charleston as a Historic Preservation Board and the design review board both so it’s only been recently with sort of this groundswell

Of organizations being formed these nonprofits african-american settlement communities organization which represents so if not all of the settlement communities in the eastern part of the county and that the Heritage Development Corporation on James Island and for us it’s also a factor of the amount of development that’s happening

Right now because the developers our last land that’s really less that hasn’t already been subdivided in the urban and suburban areas located in these communities and so we’re seeing developers going in and buying up properties and then coming in and asking for better plan development or other

Avenues to get to much smaller lot sizes then are allowed in the communities and our council members and our planning session members are seeing this and they’re hearing from the community so it’s all kind of become somewhat of a perfect storm to let us sort of get our

Foot in the door to get these new regulations in and do these planning project great given the extremely rural and sometimes isolated nature of many of these communities is there any difficulty regarding either enforcement of or respect for the comp plan or the zoning ordinance yes I think so I think

That a lot of times we see in the county that people that live out on the far reaches of the county they don’t really even realize what zoning regulations apply to them and so we have a very active code enforcement division of our department and we constantly are getting

Calls from neighbors and having to educate folks about what the requirements are but you know we found that as long as you work with people and you educate them then they’re they want to comply or of a lack of knowledge knowing what applies to you if you live

Out in the world parts of the county thank you um are you tracking whether or not the plan has created any new economic development opportunities we are not but that is a good thing to do you can certainly track that through our site plan review that’s required for any non

Single-family residential development so that is that’s a good idea we should do that yeah okay um next question the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage corridor which is across four states was established by Congress in 2006 is that also part of the National Park Service’s National Historic Site if you know yeah

I know that with the National Park Service in the Department of Interior by Aki and I’m not sure what exactly about relationship is okay um we have a lot we’re still getting a lot of questions coming in about the community engagement process and how it was so successful can

You talk a bit more about the who the key stakeholders were and how you were able to gain such strong community support and engagement yeah so in the Parker Ferry project we worked to distribute fliers to the local churches we found that getting the word out through the churches was really

Successful we have extensive interested parties list with the county so if you want to know what’s going on in your area you can email or call us and it allows you so that you get notices about meanings that are coming up or requests that are happening supplying to be

Honest planning which the Board of Zoning Appeals agenda so we’ve built those lists and so that has come in handy whenever we go out into communities we already have at least somewhere to start we also for both our experience will agree had one good community contact or a small community

Group that helps facilitate the outreach for us so for progress Barry there’s the will town community organization and some of those members really made sure that people knew about the meetings they told us if we were planning a meeting on a night that had a conflict with a local

Church event or something and fell agree one of the community leaders was on our Planning Commission so that helped because she was also a member of the concerned citizens of Foley Greek community organization and so she made sure that we were constantly communicating with their board we

Meaning with the business owners in the community so we did a lot of grassroots I think outreach and effort to make sure that we were talking to the right people we also we would post community meeting signs in the communities advertising at about a week beforehand and with Harpers

Ferry we would actually schedule the next meeting while we were a sesame nation so that everybody the new it was and we knew it all the conflicts were and we can get the date and time set up then great thanks um do you use any predictability modeling combined with

Land use maps to ID areas where there might be a likelihood of archaeological or historical resources and if so what a cost and was our relationship to historic overlays or future land use maps we don’t have that the most advanced thing that we have is we took

The survey cards from all of the surveys that had been done beginning in 1989 including the current survey and we map them so we know where they are really beyond that we have an animal you know to plan developments we require an archaeological surveys to be done

Sometimes that’s just going to the State Historic Preservation Office website and see if there’s anything nearby sometimes they’re full-blown studies so it’s part of the 2016 update we had given all the full-blown studies to the salt and then they had incorporated them as part of the project helped them find these sites

But we will need to you know if our if our serve preservation ordinance is adopted we’re going to have to be able to map all of the National Register sites and then any that get added to our local list over time to be able to see where they may fall and where properties

That are requesting to be developed fall nearby so that we know is when they have to go through these processes that will become part of the Dortmund cool thanks next question does the South Carolina do tea road ownership create any special consideration for historic resource preservation in particular along Highway 17 not that

We’re aware of okay interesting next question what kind if any resistance did you face in crafting the review recommendation for review of development within 300 feet of historic resources well that is currently in our ordinance it requires a special review if you want to subdivide a property within 300 feet

So the ordinance of being proposed requires that to go to the Preservation Commission and also includes development of non single-family residential parcels if you have to go through site plan review for a property within 300 feet and that that was actually a recommendation that came out of our

Planning Commission and it was included in the ordinance so we really haven’t heard any pushback from the residents on that and actually the African American settlements committee or Commission during our meetings they really wanted that included because they feel like that additional layer of protection if they were to become a historic district

So we’ve had a lot of community support for those provisions great what are some of the features of the loosening of home occupations that you mentioned with normal occupations you’re limited one non-resident employee in the county and we have a list of sort of prohibited home occupations like car

Repair or those types of things and for Parker Cerie in particular they wanted to sort of be able to increase the number of non-resident employees up to five if you went through the special exception procedures and got approval from the Board of Zoning Appeals so there was a staple community meeting

About it public hearing and then also to OLS because there are a lot of sort of car auto repair type things going on in Parker’s various and the community does have a problem with that they want to make sure it can be a legal home occupation so they wanted to to allow

That as well okay next question has the rate of heirs property being lost has it slowed down or anticipated to slow down with these new planning initiatives we aren’t really attracting that but we hope that the help families to retain their land because they have more flexibility they’re able to subdivide

Possibly or get it clear so that they can subdivide in the future but that’s not something that we personally attracted the county okay I think we go ahead I don’t want it’s hard to find out which part these are heirs probably the first property Barnes just the fear of

Someone coming in and being able to sort of buy property out from under the family okay um I think you know what I think we’re gonna go ahead and stop here because we’ve been drilling you for like 15 minutes so go ahead and stop and and thanks to both of you this was

Really interesting and I personally have like 15 questions but they’re not formulated yet in my brain so I’ll be emailing you if there were any questions that we did not get to feel free to reach out to the two speakers and you can get those questions answered again

We are recording this webcast will be available on our YouTube channel and we also have a PDF of it available shortly on our web cast web page Ohio planning org slash planning webcast so just the two andrius thank you for joining us again and everyone have a great weekend thank you

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