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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY.
[1. Call to Order]
GOOD MORNING.I'D LIKE TO BRING THE COMMUNITY SERVICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, IF WE CAN PLEASE ALL RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THE PLEDGE ALLE THE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD IN WITH THE ROUTINE JUSTICE FOR ALL.
SO I'M LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM.
NORMALLY I WOULD ASK IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, ANYONE WHO WANTED TO SPEAK PRIOR TO OUR MEETING BEGINNING.
AND I DON'T SEE ANYONE WHO'S NOT WHO LOOK WHO WOULD BE IN THAT POSITION.
SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE RIGHT ON TO,
[3. Adoption of the Agenda]
UM, AN ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA.MAY I MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION? SO AFTER THE PRESENTATION BY THE FIRE RESCUE SQUAD AND SECOND, UM, BY COUNCILMAN DEONE.
UM, SO WITH THAT, WE WILL, RATHER THAN GOING DIRECTLY INTO, UM, EXECUTIVE SESSION, MOVE ITEM SEVEN A EIGHT A.
SEVEN A, UM, TO ABOVE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
AND DO WE HAVE AN APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES?
[4. Approval of the Minutes ]
A MOTION FOR THAT? ALL MOVED? ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.[7.a. Presentation of the Annual Fire Rescue Report - Chris Blankenship, Fire Chief]
FORTUNATE TO HAVE MEMBERS OF OUR FIRE AND RESCUE HILTON HEAD, UH, FIRE AND RESCUE WITH US THIS MORNING TO GIVE US A REPORT AT THE 2024 ANNUAL REPORT.UH, CHRIS
UM, I'M GONNA KIND OF BREEZE THROUGH THIS WITH, UH, Y'ALL HAVE A BIG AGENDA TODAY, UM, AND ALLOW YOU TO HAVE TIME FOR SOME QUESTIONS.
BUT YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL HAVE COPIES OF THE, OF THE REPORT AS WELL AS THE DATA REPORT.
WE WON'T BE GOING OVER, UM, THE DATA IN DEPTH.
BUT, UM, BY ALL MEANS, FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME AT ANY TIME, UM, WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
SO, WITH THAT, WE HAD A, UM, UH, THE BUSIEST CALL, CALL WISE, UH, YEAR THAT WE'VE EVER HAD LAST YEAR.
UM, RAN, UH, OVER 10,000 TOTAL INCIDENTS AND OVER 14,000 TOTAL UNIT RESPONSES.
UM, THAT WAS AN AVERAGE OF 27 INCIDENTS PER DAY, WHICH IS A 30% INCREASE SINCE 2020, WHICH WE CONTINUE TO SEE THAT RISE YEAR AFTER YEAR.
UM, THE BUSIER WE GET ON THE ISLAND, UM, WE ARE THE 10TH BUSIEST DEPARTMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA, WHICH KIND OF SHOCKED ME A LITTLE BIT SINCE SOME OF THE, A LOT OF THE DEPARTMENTS ARE FULL COUNTYWIDE, VERY LARGE DEPARTMENTS LIKE ORIE COUNTY AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, JUST KIND OF SPEAKS TO OUR SMALL LITTLE ISLAND.
IS, IS, IS A BUSY LITTLE ISLAND, AS WE ALL KNOW.
UH, OUR FREQUENTLY RESPONDED LOCATIONS CONTINUOUSLY YEAR AFTER YEAR ARE ALWAYS OUR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES.
UM, THE SEABROOK, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE DOWN THE LIST THERE, UM, IT'S WHERE WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME, UM, IS IN EMS. AND, UH, WE, THESE ARE PRETTY MUCH THE TOP FIVE, UH, YEAR AFTER YEAR STRUCTURE FIRES.
LAST YEAR WE HAD 33 FIRES WITHIN A STRUCTURE, 20 OF WHICH WERE COMBINED TO THE OBJECT OF ORIGIN.
EIGHT TO THE ROOM OF ORIGIN AND FOUR TO THE BUILDING OF ORIGIN.
WE UNFORTUNATELY DID HAVE ONE FIRE FATALITY AND ONE FIRE INJURY LAST YEAR.
UH, WE SAVED, UH, THREE, JUST OVER $3 MILLION.
NO, I'M SORRY, JUST WE SAVED, UH, JUST UNDER $350 MILLION WORTH OF PROPERTY AND LOST JUST OVER 3 MILLION.
UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT INTO THE DATA WE'RE GONNA SHOW YOU HERE.
UM, OUR BENCHMARKS THAT WE STRIVE TO MEET, UM, UNDER THE BENCHMARK TIMES THERE WHERE WE ENDED UP IN 2024, UM, AND WHERE WE NEED TO IMPROVE.
UM, THE ONLY TIME WE'RE SEEING ABOVE OUR BENCHMARK IS OUR TRAVEL TIME.
AND THAT IS HONESTLY DUE TO THE INCREASE OF TRAFFIC ON OUR STREETS AS WELL AS THE BUSIER WE'RE GET, WE'RE RESPONDING OUTSIDE OF OUR FIRST FEW DISTRICTS MORE OFTEN.
SO IF STATION ONE IS ALREADY ON A CALL, STATION TWO OR STATION SIX ARE COMING INTO THAT, WHICH YOU'LL ALWAYS SEE AN INCREASED TIME.
SO NOT A WHOLE LOT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE IN THAT.
UM, BUT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR, FOR NEW WAYS.
OUR EMS, UH, WE DO HAVE SOME AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT HERE.
UM, OUR, THE BIG STANDOUT HERE IS THE ALARM HANDLING TIME.
OUR BE MAX BENCHMARKS WERE SET ON A TIME, UM, AWAY.
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MOVE INTO OUR NEXT ACCREDITATION CYCLE, WE WILL BE CHANGING THAT TIME.WE'VE ACTUALLY SLOWED DOWN OUR ALARM HANDLING TIME TO GET MORE INFORMATION TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SENDING THE PROPER RESPONSE TO IT, INSTEAD OF JUST KIND OF SENDING EVERYBODY AND THEN, AND THEN DIALING IT BACK.
SO SOMETHING WE'RE, UM, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO, TO WORK ON THERE.
UM, BUT NOTHING, NOTHING ALARMING TO ME.
THEY CONTINUED TO, TO GO OVER PRETTY WELL, TWO TIMES A A MONTH.
WE HAVE 370 REGISTERED BURNS IN 2024.
UM, WE CHECKED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
UM, AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE AWARE, EVERY BURN THAT IS REGISTERED ON THOSE SATURDAYS, OUR CREWS GO OUT INTO THE FIELD AND MAKE SURE AND VERIFY THAT THEY'RE BURDEN WITHIN ACCORDANCE OF THE, OF THE ORDINANCE.
UH, WE DID ISSUE 10 WARNINGS, UM, AND NO CITATIONS.
I DO THINK WITH THE, UH, THE CITATION ORDINANCE AND EVERYTHING THAT'S, THAT'S COMING FORWARD, UM, IN THE FUTURE, I THINK YOU'LL SEE THAT CHANGE WHERE WE'LL BE ABLE TO, TO DO SOME MORE CITATIONS.
AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE CELEBRATED IT ALL YEAR.
UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR OUR EIGHT NEW PUMPERS WE'RE PUTTING INTO SERVICE.
UM, SOME QUICK FACTS, UH, REALLY I WANNA POINT OUT THE, THE ONE BIG ONE IS, IS THE COST.
SO WE PAID 631,000 PER PUMPER.
UM, I WOULD SAY IF WE ORDERED THESE SAME PUMPERS TODAY, JUST IN ROUGHLY $200,000 MORE PER, UH, YOU'RE LOOKING AT CLOSE TO NINE, CLOSE TO 900,000 PER PUMPER TODAY.
UM, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE SEEING THAT ACROSS THE NATION AND WE'RE STILL CONTINUOUSLY SEEING THE, THE DELAYS IN IN PRODUCTION.
UH, EMS SIDE, UH, OUR THREE, OUR THREE BIGGEST CALLS FOR SERVICE, GENERALIZED WEAKNESS, UH, HEAD INJURY, A LOT OF THAT HEAD INJURY IS FALLS, UM, UH, THE SYNCOPE AND FAINTING, UH, LITTLE MALE TO FEMALE RATIO THERE.
BIG THING HERE IS YOU'LL SEE THAT WE ARE RESPONDING TO PATIENTS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA MORE THAN ANYTHING.
AND IN THE NEXT SLIDE YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT, UM, 71% OF OUR TOTAL PATIENTS TRANSPORTED OUR, OUR RESIDENTS OF HILTON HEAD.
SO QUESTIONS ALWAYS ASK, ARE WE SERVING THE, THE TOURISTS OR ARE WES SERVING OUR POPULATION? EM, S WISE, IT IS, IT IS GROSSLY OUR POPULATION.
AND IF WE, IF WE GO BACK, YOU'LL SEE WHY, UM, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CALLS WE GO TO ARE 65 AND OLDER.
UM, FROM THAT, THE CHART THERE, UH, REVENUE COLLECTED.
THIS CONTINUES TO GO UP EVERY YEAR, WHICH, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, JUST UNDER $2.5 MILLION COLLECTED IN EMS REVENUE.
UH, WE DO HAVE A COLLECTION RATE OF 81%, UM, WHICH IS ABOVE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF, OF 66%.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK, OR WHAT WE SEE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LIKE, I DON'T WANNA GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE I BY AMBULANCE.
'CAUSE I DON'T, I DON'T WANT THE BILL.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT IT'S A, A VERY LARGE FEE.
OUR AVERAGE COST LAST YEAR PER TRIP WAS $440.
UM, WE SEE THIS, UH, TRENDING DOWN YEAR AFTER YEAR, UH, SINCE, SINCE THOSE COVID YEARS.
SO LAST YEAR WE ADMINISTERED 39 DOSES OF OF NARCAN, WHICH, WHICH IS GREAT.
THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THERE ARE 39 OVERDOSES.
WE GIVE NARCAN, UM, TO CARDIAC ARREST WHEN, WHEN WE CAN'T GET THEM BACK.
AND THERE'S NO REALLY UNDERLYING REASON OF WHY THEY'RE IN CARDIAC ARREST.
IT'S JUST ONE OF THE MEDICATIONS WE GO TO, UM, TO SEE IF IT'LL HELP.
UM, YOU WILL BE SEEING MORE ON THIS IN MAY WITH THE OPIOID, UH, PROPOSAL THAT WE HAVE COMING FORWARD TO, TO THIS COMMITTEE FIRST AND THEN TO TOWN COUNCIL.
SO, UH, GOT SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS IN THE WORK.
UH, SOME, SOME OF THAT, UH, MONEY THAT WAS SET ASIDE FROM THE STATE THAT WE GOT, UM, FROM THE LAWSUITS, WE GOT A COUPLE REALLY GOOD PROGRAMS I THINK WE CAN PUT IN PLACE WITH, WITH THAT MONEY.
OUR INTER-FACILITY TRANSPORTS HOSPITAL HOSPITAL, UH, WE'RE DOWN BY ONE LAST YEAR.
WE, WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS GET TO ZERO.
UM, BUT WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE HOSPITAL AND THEIR PARTNER, UM, THROUGH PRIVATE EMS, UH, TO GET THIS DOWN TO ZERO.
AND THEN WHAT WE DID SEE IS AN UPTICK IN OUR, UM, AIR TRANSPORTS.
SO WE TRANSPORT THE PATIENTS FROM HILTON HEAD HOSPITAL TO THE AIRPORT FOR THE HELICOPTER RIDE OUTS THAT, THAT THEY FLY OUT.
SO I THINK AS YOU'RE SEEING THE ABILITY OF, OF PRIVATE TO NOT GROUND TRANSPORT PATIENTS OUT, UM, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THEM START FLYING MORE.
SO THAT WENT UP PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY.
UH, CARDIAC ARRESTS RATE, UH, 70% LAST YEAR, WHICH IS AMAZING.
UH, WE HAVE A 26% NATIONAL AVERAGE, SO WE'RE WELL ABOVE THAT.
WE CONTINUE TO DO GREAT THINGS.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WE PUT THIS QR CODE OUT THERE EVERYWHERE FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN UP AND, AND TAKE CPR CLASS.
UM, I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON OVER, I DON'T KNOW THE AGE OF PROBABLY 15 THESE DAYS, UM, SHOULD, SHOULD KNOW CCPR AND, AND THE USE OF AEDS.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA DELVE INTO THIS TOO MUCH, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK LIKE, WHAT
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DO WE DO WHEN WE'RE NOT RUNNING CALLS? WE TRAIN, UH, 35,000 HOURS OF, OF TRAINING LAST YEAR FOR OUR TROOPS,AND THEN, UH, WE DID HIRE 15 FIREFIGHTERS, THREE, WHICH WE SENT TO THE ACADEMY.
12 WERE ALREADY CERTIFIED LAST YEAR.
AND, UH, WE HAD SIX LIEUTENANT CANDIDATE PROMOTIONS AND SEVEN, UH, DRIVERS, UM, SPECIAL OPERATIONS.
UH, STEVE, YOU, YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE SINCE YOU NEW TO THE COMMITTEE THAT THAT DOESN'T KNOW.
WE, WE HAVE TWO REGIONAL TEAMS ON THE ISLAND.
WE HAVE A USAR TEAM AND A HAZMAT TEAM.
THEY, THOSE ARE FUNDED THROUGH NATIONAL AND STATE GRANTS, UM, THROUGH HOMELAND SECURITY.
UH, AND SO WE HOUSE THE LOW COUNTRY TEAM HERE ON HILTON HEAD.
UH, WE GET ALL THE EQUIPMENT, WE HAVE IT HERE FOR USE ON THE ISLAND, BUT THEY'RE ALSO TASKED TO, UH, TO MOVE OUT INTO THE STATE AS NEEDED.
AND THE USAR TEAM TYPICALLY DOES DO THAT.
SO IN JANUARY WE WENT TO BAMBERG FOR THE TORNADO.
AUGUST WE HAD THE HURRICANE DEBBIE DEPLOYMENT TO CHARLESTON AND BERKELEY COUNTY.
SEPTEMBER WE WENT TO HURRICANE HELENE, UM, IN GREENVILLE.
AND THEN DECEMBER WE HAD, WE HAD A CLASS THAT WE COMPLETED.
BUT THIS TEAM DOES GO OUT THE DOOR.
BUT THE NICE THING IS IT'S RECIPROCAL.
DURING HURRICANE MATTHEW, EVERY TEAM IN THE STATE WAS ALSO HERE.
SO THE OTHER, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS IS THE HAZMAT TEAM.
UM, WE DO NOT DEPLOY OUT IN THE REGION TOO OFTEN WITH THIS TEAM, BUT IT'S NICE TO HAVE THE CAPABILITIES HERE ON THE ISLAND IN, IN BLUFFTON, OUR 9 1 1 COMMUNICATION CENTER.
ANOTHER BANNER YEAR LAST YEAR, 25,000 9, 1 1 CALLS, UM, NINE, YOU KNOW, 10,000 CALLS TRANSFERRED TO OTHER 9 1 1 CENTERS.
THAT'S MOSTLY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN TO BEAVER COUNTY.
UH, 60,000 CALLS COMING INTO THE CENTER.
UM, YOU KNOW, FRIDAY'S IN JUNE, THE BUSIEST DAYS IN THE, IN THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
AND THEN SOME ACHIEVEMENTS THAT OUR TELECOMMUNICATORS GOT LAST YEAR.
WE HAD THREE OF THE SUPERVISORS COMPLETED, UM, THEIR CMC PROGRAM.
TWO SUPERVISORS RECEIVED EMERGENCY NUMBERS, PROFESSION CERTIFICATION.
AND THEN AS YOU GUYS SAW DURING OUR AWARD CEREMONY, UH, MONIQUE GOT THE, RECEIVED THE PALMETTO AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL PROFESSIONALISM OF PRIDE.
UH, WELL, WHAT WE DO, YOU KNOW, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, THE OPERATION SIDE, COMMUNITY RISK GROUP REDUCTION.
SO WE HAVE THE GUYS OUT RUNNING TO THE EMERGENCIES, AND THEN WE HAVE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE OUT THAT'S TRYING TO PREVENT US FROM EVER GOING OUT TO THOSE EMERGENCIES.
UH, JUST OVER 3000 FIRE INSPECTIONS LAST YEAR.
3,700 VIOLATIONS FOUND JUST OVER 3000 HAVE BEEN CORRECTED.
BUT 500 NEW CONSTRUCTION INSPECTIONS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE GROWING, WE'RE BOOMING, UH, 500 PLANS, REVIEWS, WE INSTALL SMOKE ALARMS. WE INSPECT EVERY HYDRANT ON THE, UH, ON THE ISLAND.
WE DID HAVE 14 FIRE INVESTIGATIONS.
AND THIS IS ALSO THE DIVISION THAT, THAT'S INSTALLING THE CAR SEATS, UM, ON A DAILY BASIS.
UM, OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND RECRUITMENT, UH, BUSY YEAR, UM, STILL, STILL FAIRLY NEW, BUT, UM, JUST UNDER 3000 TOTAL COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS.
WE HAD SIX NEW PROGRAMS, 11 NEW PARTNERSHIPS, 29 COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT WE EITHER HOSTED OR ATTENDED.
AND FOUR COMMUNITY RELATIONS PRESENTATIONS, UM, HOW WE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY.
UM, SOME OF THE BIG, BIG THINGS WE DID LAST YEAR WITH THAT WAS THE LEES PROGRAM WITH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, THE SUMMER, UM, GIRLS CAMP THAT WE HAD WITH ISLAND REC.
UH, THEY HOST OUR NEW HIRE, UH, PHYSICAL ABILITIES TESTING AND, AND WELCOME SOCIAL FOR THOSE MEMBERS THAT ARE, THAT ARE WANTING TO COME IN AND JOIN US.
UH, KENZIE OVER HERE IS OUR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS, AND ANOTHER, ANOTHER BIG YEAR FOR HER.
WE'RE, WE'RE OUT IN THE PUBLIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA A LOT MORE.
I MEAN, 56% INCREASE IN PAGE VISITS ON FACEBOOK, 72% INCREASE, UM, ON ENGAGEMENT AND REALLY GETTING OUR INSTAGRAM UP AND GOING.
SO SHE CONTINUES TO DO GOOD THINGS AND HER AND CHRISTOPHER PUT THIS WHOLE PRESENTATION TOGETHER AND OUR ANNUAL REPORT, UH, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
UH, TOM DOES ALL OF OUR SPECIAL EVENTS LIKE HERITAGE, THE ST.
BUT WE ALSO LAST YEAR HAD, UM, SOME, SOME ISSUES WITH THE, UH, TROPICAL STORM DEBBIE AND HURRICANE HELENE.
SO HE ALWAYS DOES A FANTASTIC JOB, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE EOC OPENS AND, AND GETTING INFORMATION OUT AND, AND REALLY THE PREPAREDNESS PART OF IT TOO.
THEY KEEP ALL OF OUR TOWN VEHICLES UP AND RUNNING.
THEY'VE BEEN BUSY WITH OUR AGING FLEET.
UM, HOPEFULLY THEY'LL HAVE SOME, SOME SLOW DOWN WITH OUR, WITH OUR NEW TRUCKS COMING IN.
AND THEN SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS, UH, WE'RE REPLACED THROUGH THE CIP, ALL OF OUR TOWN OWNED AEDS OUT IN, IN THE PUBLIC.
UM, WE DID RECEIVE THE MISSION SILVER LIFELINE AWARD FOR EMS AND WELCOMED OUR TWO NEW MEDICAL DIRECTORS.
UM, AND WE HAVE INSTALLED OUR NEW STATION ALERTING SYSTEM, UM, AS A, A PARTNERSHIP WITH BEAVERT COUNTY.
UM, ALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTY RECEIVED, UM, NEW STATION LEARNING.
UH, SOME STAFFING UPDATES IS A LITTLE OUTDATED NOW.
UH, I THINK WE GOT TWO VAC HOW MANY? TWO, ONE OR TWO VACANCIES IS ALL.
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VACANCY ON THE LINE NOW, UM, WHICH IS GREAT.SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO GET, UH, PEOPLE INTERESTED IN COMING TO WORK HERE AND GETTING THEM IN THE DOOR.
UM, SO REALLY OUR, OUR BIGGEST CHA CHALLENGE IS, UM, A HEADQUARTERS DISPATCH IN EOC.
WE'RE, I MEAN, IT'S A WAREHOUSE.
UM, OUR CLASSROOM CONTINUES TO BE OVERUSED, UH, I DON'T WANNA SAY OVERUSED, USED FOR COMMUNITY STUFF SUCH AS, UM, CPR AND A ED, WHERE WE'RE REALLY FIGHTING EACH OTHER, UM, FOR SPACE.
AND THEN, UM, WE'RE STILL IN A RENTED SPACE, OUR DISPATCHING, EOC AT PSD ONE.
SO WORKING WITH MARK AND IN TOWN STAFF TO, TO IDENTIFY, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE ON THE ISLAND, UM, MAYBE NOT NEXT TO THE DUMP, UH, THAT WE CAN, THAT WE CAN MOVE IN THE FUTURE AND, AND HAVE A BUILDING THAT FITS OUR NEEDS.
SO, BIGGEST CHALLENGE, UM, SOME INITIATIVES STILL WORKING ON THE ADDRESS ORDINANCE AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW LADDERS, UM, COMMUNITY PARAMEDICINE PROGRAM.
UM, AND CONTINUED WORKING WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, STAFFING, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH, WHICH WE WILL BE DOING A NEW STRATEGIC PLAN NEXT YEAR.
SO THAT WAS BRIEF, BUT THAT'S OUR ANNUAL REPORT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO AND GREAT PRESENTATION.
UM, AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
AND STEVE, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? YEAH.
UH, FIRST, APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.
YOU, UM, TRANSPORTED A FRIEND OF MINE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FRIDAY NIGHT.
UM, HE WENT OVER HIS HANDLEBARS, SEVEN CRUSHED RIBS.
OH NO RIB BROKEN CLAVICLE HEAD INJURY ENDED UP IN SAVANNAH STILL THERE.
BUT, UH, IT WAS A, IT WAS A QUICK RESPONSE AND EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE IT'S GETTING BETTER FOR HIM.
BUT WHAT I WAS, MY QUESTION IS, YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN SAYING EVERYTHING, I KNOW WE'RE WORKING ON SOME FACILITIES, BUT WHAT ARE OUR TOP COUPLE THINGS WE CAN DO FOR YOU? UH, SO THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
UM, MY BIGGEST THING IS, IS I, I'LL ALWAYS ASK FOR WHAT WE NEED, NOT FOR WHAT WE WANT.
WE, WE CONTINUE TO WORK OFF OF A VERY TIGHT BUDGET.
UM, WE TRY TO STAY FLAT YEAR OVER YEAR.
OUR, OUR OPERATIONS BUDGET GROWS, UM, WITH, WITH PERSONNEL COSTS, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR INSURANCE, OUR OUR RAISES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
UM, WE'VE BEEN VERY SUPPORTED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH, WITH PERSONNEL.
UM, I DO THINK IN THE FUTURE THERE, THERE IS MORE NEED FOR PERSONNEL OUT ON THE LINE, UM, TO, TO REALLY RESPOND THE WAY WE NEED TO RESPOND.
WE'RE DIFFERENT THAN OTHER PLACES WHERE WE'RE MANNING AMBULANCES AS WELL AS FIRE TRUCKS.
AND A LOT OF OUR STATIONS ARE STILL, THE AMBULANCE GOES OUT, THE FIRE TRUCK SIT SITS EMPTY.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO TRANSITION TO A MODEL WHERE THAT'S NOT HAPPENING, WHERE THE AMBULANCE CAN STILL RESPOND, BUT THE FIRETRUCK IS STILL LEFT WITH PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO FIRES.
UM, SO REALLY THE BIG THING IS SUPPORTING THE BUDGET.
UM, WE, WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY WELL SUPPORTED.
WE, WE HAVE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE REPLACED ON TIME SCHEDULES.
OUR TURNOUT GEAR HAS TO BE REPLACED EVERY 10 YEARS.
OUR FIRE TRUCKS REALLY NEED TO BE REPLACED REALLY EVERY 10 YEARS.
WE WE'RE STRETCHING THEM TO, TO 14, 15, 16 NOW.
BUT WE'RE SEEING THE BACKSIDE OF THEIR, THEY'RE ALWAYS DOWN MECHANICALLY.
UM, YOU KNOW, STATIONS ARE, ARE BUILT OUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF, OF HEADQUARTERS.
BUT JUST REALLY THE, THE BIG THING I NEED FROM COUNCIL IS SUPPORT.
I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE FROM THE COMMUNITY.
COUNCIL IS ALWAYS VERY APPRECIATIVE OF EVERYTHING WE DO.
UM, BUT IT REALLY JUST COMES DOWN TO, TO BUDGET AND, AND TRUSTING US WITH THE FACT THAT WE DO MANAGE OUR BUDGET VERY WELL AND VERY TIGHT.
WELL SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THINGS OUT OF THE BOX AND ONE THING THAT CAN HELP YOU IS NOT NECESSARILY INTERNAL.
IF YOU HAVE ALL THE MONEY YOU NEED, YOU HAVE ALL THE PERSONNEL YOU NEED, ALL THE, THE FANCY NEW PRODUCTS YOU NEED, AND EVERYONE'S FULLY QUALIFIED.
WHERE DO YOU FIND YOUR BOTTLENECKS TO GETTING, TO GETTING WHERE THE SERVICE IS NEEDED, FOR INSTANCE, TRAFFIC WISE, WHERE, WHAT ARE YOUR TOP THREE BOTTLENECKS? UM, WHERE DO YOU LOSE TIME ON THE ISLAND? UH, TRA TRAVEL, TRAVEL TIME.
WHICH, WHICH IS WHERE, THOUGH, SPECIFICALLY DO YOU LOSE TIME, UM, IN THE, IN ESTONIA AREA? DO YOU LOSE TIME IN SEA PIPE? THE SOUTH, THE SOUTH AND IN THE SUMMER ALWAYS SOUTH END.
UM, SO I WILL, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT, WHAT WE'RE GONNA SEE NOW TOO IS WE ARE RUNNING MORE NON-EMERGENT TO CALLS THAN WE EVER HAVE OVER THE LAST YEAR.
THE LOW ACUITY, LOW LEVEL, REALLY NON-EMERGENT CALLS.
WE'RE NOT GOING LIGHTS AND SIRENS ANYMORE.
WE CONTROL THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC WHEN EVERYTHING'S WORKING RIGHT.
WHEN WE'RE RUNNING LIGHTS AND SIRENS.
'CAUSE WE HAVE AN OPTICON, I'M SORRY, AN OPTICON SYSTEM THAT CHANGES THE LIGHTS.
WHAT, WHAT WE'RE NOT IS WE MAY SEE, UH, AN AMBULANCE
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FROM, UH, PALMETTO DUNES HAVE TO RUN A MEDICAL CALL AT SOUTH BEACH.AND IT'S A, IT'S A NON-EMERGENT CALL IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER ON A SATURDAY.
IT MAY TAKE THEM 20, 25 MINUTES TO GET THERE.
JUST REALLY, IT'S JUST THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC.
UM, BUT THE SOUTH END, I WOULD SAY, I WOULD SAY THE, THE, UM, THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE MAKING TO, UM, 2 78 FROM DILLON TO, TO BEACH CITY ARE, ARE AMAZING.
I MEAN, IT, THEY AESTHETICALLY LOOK GREAT.
THEY'RE OPENING UP LINES OF SIGHT.
I THINK WITH THE LANDSCAPING, WE'RE GONNA GET THOSE PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS IN THERE.
I, I HOPE TO GOD THEY'RE USED, UM, BECAUSE THAT IS, THAT IS KIND OF OUR CORRIDOR OF, OF BAD THINGS.
SO JUST CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THROUGH ALL OF THAT STUFF.
UM, BUT BOTTLENECKS, I MEAN, IT'S REALLY JUST THE AMOUNT OF VEHICLES ON THE ROADWAY MORE THAN ANYTHING.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU FIND YOURSELF HAVING TO PUT IT IN REVERSE BECAUSE THE CUL-DE-SACS ARE TOO TIGHT? UM, JUST A LOT OF TRUCKS.
I MEAN, AND TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH YOU, FIRE TRUCKS DON'T GET SMALLER.
OUR PUMPERS, WE DESIGNED TO BE SMALLER.
UM, AND MORE AND MORE AGILE LADDER TRUCKS CONTINUE TO GET BIGGER.
OUR NEW LADDER TRUCKS WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE ONES WE HAVE TODAY.
UM, HANTA DOES A FANTASTIC JOB AND RUSSELL OF, OF THE PLANNING ASPECT OF MAKING SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO TURN AROUND AND TO GET INTO AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SOME OF THE OLDER ONES, UM, IN THE PUDS AND STUFF, IT, IT, IT IS WHAT IT IS THEY'RE BUILT OUT.
UM, MY THING IS IF, IF WE CAN GET IN, GETTING IN IS THE EMERGENCY GETTING OUT IS WE CAN TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS WE NEED.
SO IF WE HAVE TO BACK DOWN A ROAD FOR HALF A MILE IS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
BUT THE, THE PLANNING, THE PLANNING PART OF ALL THE NEW STUFF IS, IS VERY GOOD, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO ACCESS.
SO STEVE, AN EXCELLENT REPORT, AS USUAL, IT'S INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DETAIL AND INFORMATION IN THERE, WHICH IS, WHICH IS VERY HELPFUL.
UH, I WAS PLEASED TO HEAR YOUR RESPONSE.
UM, ONE OF THE LINES THERE DEALS WITH THE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO GET ORGANIZED BEFORE DISPATCH, BEFORE TRUCKS ARE DISPO DISPATCHED.
AND I HAD NOTICED THAT THAT HAD AN INCREASED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
AND SO I WAS PLEASED TO SEE WHAT THAT, THE REASON FOR THAT, AS YOU INDICATED, UH, WAS THAT YOU'RE TAKING TIME TO GET MORE INFORMATION FROM THE CALLER AS TO, TO WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, WITH REGARD TO THE, TO THE DEFIBRILLATORS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THEM, UH, ARE THERE ANY REQUIREMENTS FOR APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND CONDO AND, UH, HOTELS TO HAVE AEDS IN THEM? THAT'D BE A JIHAD QUESTION.
JIHAD STER, DEPUTY CHIEF? UM, NO, THERE IS NOT.
BUT LIKE WE CONSISTENTLY, AS PART OF THE, UM, DOING CPR AND A ED CLASSES, WE REALLY TALK ABOUT, WE DO HAVE A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP WHERE IF THEY PURCHASE AN A ED AND HAVE IT INSTALLED, UM, THEN WE HELP MAINTAIN IT WITH PADS AND BATTERIES.
UM, AND WE HAVE, UH, A LOT OF, WE HAVE A TON OF AEDS THAT ARE OUT THERE, MOSTLY IN THE PUBLIC PLACES, LIKE THE CHURCHES, THE GOLF COURSES, UM, ALL THE PUDS, THEIR SECURITY TEAMS CARRY AEDS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC, BUT THERE'S NOT NECESSARILY A REQUIREMENT FOR THEM TO HAVE IT.
WE JUST PROMOTE IT BECAUSE WE WANT THEM OUT THERE AND WE WANT THEM TO BE USED.
AND REALLY, WE SET THE EXAMPLE BY EVERY TOWN FACILITY HAS AN 80, THAT IS AN INTERNAL REQUIREMENT THAT WE HAVE FOR THE TOWN.
SO EVERY, EVERY, EVERY BUILDER HAS ONE OF THOSE.
I WAS JUST SAYING THAT THE HOTELS, MOTELS AND, AND CONDOS AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS HAVE LARGE COLLECTIONS OF PEOPLE IN ONE SPOT.
AND, UM, IS THERE ANY MOVEMENT TO, UH, ANYWHERE IN THE STATE OTHER TO, TO GET AEDS IN THOSE FACILITIES? NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN.
UM, LIKE I SAID, AS PART OF WHAT, LIKE THE MARRIOTT FACILITIES, WHICH WE HAVE A TON OF, INCLUDING ALL OF, YOU KNOW, THE VACATION CLUBS, THEY ALL HAVE A D SO LIKE, AS PART OF WHAT WE DO IN INSPECTIONS AND COMMUNITY RISK REDUCTION, WE TRY TO PROMOTE THAT.
WE JUST CAN'T REQUIRE THEM TO DO IT.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE HAVING SUCCESS.
I MEAN, WE, WE, WE ARE HAVING SUCCESS WITH OUR SURVIVAL RATE IN, IN PUBLIC PLACES LIKE THE MARRIOTTS, LIKE THE GOLF COURSES AND TENNIS CENTERS WHERE THE HANDS ON CPR IS BEING DONE RIGHT AWAY.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE GETTING THE A ED THAT THEY HAVE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMING IN SO THAT WE'VE SEEN MOST
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OF OUR STORIES, SURVIVAL STORIES ARE FROM BYSTANDER CPR AND EARLY DEPLOYMENT OF AEDS.WELL, AGAIN, THANK YOU AND ALL OF YOUR TEAM FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO EVERY DAY.
UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT STRUCK ME.
UM, STEVE DEONE, COUNCILMAN DEONE BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE WITH TRAFFIC THAT'S CONCERNING.
UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE THINK ABOUT THAT AND HOW WE LOOK TO ADDRESS, UM, SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
BUT, UM, IT'S CONCERNING TO HEAR THAT THE TRAFFIC IS, IS PART OF WHAT'S THE MAJORITY OF WHAT'S SLOWING DOWN THE TIME FOR YOU.
UM, THE OTHER THING THAT I THOUGHT WAS STRIKING WAS THE, UM, INTER-FACILITY TRANSPORTS BY, UM, AIRPLANE, HOSPITAL TO AIRPORT.
UM, IS THAT BECAUSE, UM, THE MEDICAL TEAMS ARE BEING MORE, UM, CAREFUL, MORE DILIGENT IN SENDING FOLKS OFF THAT AND WITH IMMEDIACY OF USING A HELICOPTER RATHER THAN AN AMBULANCE? YES.
SO YOU MAY NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
UM, SO HISTORICALLY HELICOPTER RIDES WERE INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE.
UM, OUR, UH, OUR HELICOPTER SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND IN GEORGIA HAS PARTNERED WITH ALL MAJOR MEDICAL CARRIERS.
AND HONESTLY, A HELICOPTER RIDE TODAY IS ABOUT THE SAME AS AN AMBULANCE RIDE.
OH, REALLY? SO THEY ARE USING HELICOPTERS MORE.
UM, BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT THAT ANGST TO BE LIKE, UH, I WANNA CALL A HELICOPTER 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT THE BIG BILL.
UM, WHERE, WHEREAS I THINK THEY TOLD US LAST YEAR WHEN THEY MET, THE HIGHEST BILL THEY HAD THE YEAR BEFORE WAS LIKE $2,000.
SO, I MEAN, IT'S IN THE IT'S IN THE HUNDREDS NOW.
RATHER THAN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS THAT IT USED TO BE.
WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION.
UM, IT JUST STILL SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF THEM.
UM, BUT THAT IS GOOD INFORMATION TO HEAR THAT.
AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY I THINK THAT, UM, THE BEST THING THAT WE CAN DO AS A COUNCIL IS LISTEN TO WHEN YOU MENTION THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED, YOU NEED, UM, PERHAPS IN THE FUTURE SOME ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL.
I HEARD YOU SAY SUPPORT WITH A BUDGET THAT YOU RUN VERY TIGHT AND WE APPRECIATE THAT.
BUT THERE ARE NEEDS WITHIN CIP THAT ARE ACCORDING TO A SCHEDULE, THAT ARE UNAVOIDABLE, THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, TAKEN CARE OF, UM, AND THEN A FACILITY AND A FACILITY THAT IS, UM, APPROPRIATE FOR THE ORGANIZATION THAT WE HAVE.
AND I MEAN THAT IN HIGHEST TERMS, UM, YOU REALLY DO NEED TO BE OUT OF WHERE YOU ARE, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION AND INTO SOMETHING BETTER FOR EVERYONE.
UM, WE APPRECIATE, AND I'M GONNA JUST MAKE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CPR CLASSES AND UM, AND THE USE OF A EDS.
UM, AND I HOPE THAT EVERYONE WHO'S LISTENING WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND GET TOGETHER A SMALL GROUP, RIGHT.
AND JUST COME IN AS A SMALL GROUP AND ASK FOR A, AN EDUCATIONAL, UM, WORKSHOP ON HOW TO USE THOSE.
AND SO THAT I THINK IS CRITICAL.
UM, AND I HOPE EVERYONE ON THE ISLAND TAKES ADVANTAGE OF DOING JUST THAT.
AND I'M GOING TO, UM, STOP MY COMMENTS BECAUSE I COULD JUST GO ON AND ON ABOUT SAYING ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT YOU DO AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU.
IT IS TRAGIC WHEN WE LOSE A LIFE.
AND I KNOW IT'S HARD ON YOU EVERY DAY WHEN YOU HAVE TO, UM, ADDRESS EMERGENCIES.
AND I HOPE THAT THAT HELPS, UM, IN SOME WAY KNOWING THAT WE ARE HERE BEHIND YOU.
AND THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT THIS MORNING AND DON'T EVER HESITATE.
IF SOMETHING DOES COME UP THAT YOU NEED SOMETHING, PLEASE BRING IT UP AND LET US KNOW.
[5. Executive Session]
WE'RE GONNA JUMP BACK INTO OUR REGULAR AGENDA AND, UM, GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND THE DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES, UM, TO INCLUDE OR MAY INCLUDE ACCOMMODATIONS, TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BUFORD, JASPER HOUSING TRUST, BOARD OF ZONING, APPEALS CONSTRUCTION BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS AND APPEALS DESIGN REVIEW BOARD, GULLAH GEECHEE, HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE GULLAH GEECHEE TASK FORCE HOUSING ACTION COMMITTEE, PARKS AND RECREATION, AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION.SO IF YOU'LL BE PATIENT WITH US, WE WILL, UM, IF I CAN GET A MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
LOOKING FOR A GREAT CAREER OPPORTUNITY.
BUFORD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA HAS SEVERAL JOB OPENINGS IN AREAS THAT WILL MATCH YOUR SKILLSET.
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AND I NEED A MOTION TO GET US OUT OF HIS EXECUTIVE SESSION.
[8.a. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town Council of the Town of Hilton Head Island to amend Municipal Code Section 8-11-211(8) to Restrict Dogs from an Area of the Town's Defined Beach near Fish Haul Creek - Shawn Colin, Assistant Town Manager]
BUSINESS EIGHT A, WE HAVE A CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO AMEND MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 8 11 22 11, SECTION EIGHT TO RESTRICT DOGS FROM AN AREA OF THE TOWN'S DEFINED BEACH NEAR FISH HALL CREEK.AND, UH, SEAN COLLIN, OUR ASSISTANT TOWN MANAGER, WILL MAKE THE PRESENTATION.
UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER SEAN COLE, ASSISTANT TOWN MANAGER.
UM,
UM, WE, WE CAN MOVE THROUGH THIS AS QUICKLY AS YOU, AS YOU'D LIKE.
I, I WANNA REMIND TOWN COUNCIL THAT IN FEBRUARY, I THINK FEBRUARY 4TH TOWN COUNCIL, UM, ADOPTED A RESOLUTION, UM, AUTHORIZING THE TOWN MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE BEACH RENOURISHMENT PERMITS.
UM, THE, THERE WAS A CONDITION WITHIN A REQUIREMENT OF THE PERMIT THAT WAS, UH, INCLUDED BY US FISH AND WILDLIFE, UH, IN BOTH THE ARMY CORPS PERMIT AND THE ONE ISSUED, UH, BY SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES REQUIRING A RESTRICTION ON DOGS IN A AREA ON THE BEACH.
UM, AND, UM, SAF, YOU SCROLL DOWN.
THERE'S A, AN EXHIBIT SHOWING THE AREA THAT IS RESTRICTED.
SO, UM, THIS IS ON AT THE END OF BEACH CITY ROAD.
UM, THE SPA IS THE DEVELOPMENT HERE ON, UM, ON SORT OF THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE RESTRICTED AREA.
UH, THERE'S A BOARDWALK, UM, UM, THAT EXTENDS FROM THE SPA OUT ON THE BEACH, BUT THAT'S THE NORTHERN LIMIT OF THE, UM, IT'S A 24 HOUR, SEVEN DAY A WEEK RESTRICTION ON DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS ON THE BEACH.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE NORTHERN LIMIT.
AND THEN THE SOUTHERN LIMIT IS FISH OIL CREEK, EXCEPT IT ITSELF HERE.
UM, INITIALLY THE REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAT WERE INCLUDED AS THE CONDITION OF THE PERMIT WERE, WAS A MUCH LARGER AREA INCLUDED, UM, PINE ISLAND AND HILTON HEAD PLANTATION.
UM, IT EXTENDED FURTHER DOWN INTO PORT ROYAL.
UM, BUT AFTER, UM, SOME ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION, UH, THIS WAS THE AREA THAT US FISH AND WILDLIFE, UM, PUT IN THE MODIFIED BIOLOGICAL OPINION.
AND SO WE HAVE CHANGED THE CODE, UM, SECTION TO REPRESENT THAT THE AN THAT DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS ARE RESTRICTED, UH, IN THIS AREA, UH, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY.
UM, AND THAT WE, UM, AND THIS CODE ALSO REQUIRES SIGNAGE TO BE DISPLAYED IN THIS AREA, ALERTING FOLKS OF THAT NEW CONDITION.
UH, WE DID ALSO TAKE ONE OTHER, CAN WE SCROLL? OKAY.
UH, WE DID ALSO, UM, CLEAN UP, UM, SECTION AA AND IT WAS ON THE BEACH.
UM, THE PREVIOUS LANGUAGE, IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.
IT WAS WRITTEN IN, UM, PARAGRAPH FORM.
IT WAS REALLY, UH, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHEN YOU COULD OR COULDN'T HAVE DOGS WHEN OR WHEN YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T HAVE LEASHES OR VOICE COMMAND.
AND SO, WORK WITH TOWN, A TOWN ATTORNEY TO CLARIFY THIS AND BE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, DESCRIPTIVE ON THOSE AREAS.
BUT, UH, IN ESSENCE, THIS, UH, ORDINANCE PROVIDES THE RESTRICTION THAT'S A REQUIREMENT OF OUR BEACH RENOURISHMENT PERMIT, UH, CONSISTENT WITH THAT REQUIREMENT FROM US FISH AND WILDLIFE, UH, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND, UH, SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES.
AND ASK FOR COMMITTEES, UM, CONSIDERATION TO ADVANCE THIS TO TOWN COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THIS IS A PREREQUISITE TO OUR BEACH RENOURISHMENT PROJECT.
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AGREEMENT WITH FISH AND WILDLIFE.UM, THIS SEEMS RELATIVELY PRO FORMA TO ME, UH, AND THEREFORE I MOVE APPROVAL.
ALL IN FAVOR? WELL, LET'S DO SOME MORE WORK.
IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS MATTER? UM, WAS THERE SOMETHING THROUGH THE PORTAL? YES.
UM, MR. WILLIAMS, HE WAS THE ONLY ONE.
AND THE ONLY OTHER ONE, UH, COMMENT I'D LIKE TO MAKE IS THE REQUIREMENT, UM, PERMIT THAT WAS PART OF THE PERMIT WAS, UM, THE RESTRICTION.
THIS, THIS AMENDMENT HAD TO BE IN PLACE BEFORE WE COULD START CONSTRUCTION.
UH, WHICH WE EXPECT SOMETIME THIS SUMMER AS EARLY AS JUNE, BUT, UH, PROBABLY A LITTLE LATER THAN THAT.
SO JUST WANNA PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
ANY COMMENTS? WELL, I MEAN, I'M, I'M AWARE OF THIS WAS MUCH MORE, IT WAS MUCH BROADER TO BEGIN WITH, AND THAT'S RIGHT.
YOU GUYS DID A GREAT JOB FIGHTING IT BACK TO THIS ONE AREA.
AND, UM, AND IT IS A, LIKE I SAID, IT'S WHY I SECONDED THE MOTION.
IT IS A REQUIREMENT TO GET OUR FEATURE NOURISHMENT PERMIT.
FIRST, I THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE OUR BEACH RENOURISHMENT, UM, IS BEING HELD HOSTAGE, IN MY OPINION, UM, TO RESTRICTING ANIMALS ON THE BEACH.
SECONDLY, THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT WE KEEP CALLING IT A DOG PROHIBITION, WHEN IN FACT IT'S AN ANIMAL PROHIBITION.
UM, AND A PEOPLE FOR THAT MATTER PROHIBITION, PEOPLE AREN'T ALLOWED IN THIS AREA.
AM I CORRECT IN THAT? UM, IT DOESN'T SPECIFICALLY, UM, RESTRICT PEOPLE, UM, BUT IT, IT IS DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
SO YEAH, YOU CAN'T HAVE CATS AND YOUR, YOU KNOW, PET.
SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD, SHOULD HAVE STRAYED AWAY FROM, UM, USING THE WORD, UM, AND DOG AND SHOULD HAVE USED A MORE BROAD TERM AS ANIMAL.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S LED TO SOME, SOME ANGST.
AND I UNDERSTAND WHY AMONGST THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND RESIDENTS ON THE ISLAND WHO USE THAT BEACH FREQUENTLY, UM, TO WALK THEIR DOGS.
AND, BUT, UM, BE THAT AS A MAY, I WOULD RATHER SEE THAT LANGUAGE IN THERE, UM, THAN IT BEING LIMITED TO DOGS.
BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WE CAN'T GET OUR PERMIT UNLESS WE UM, UNLESS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THIS.
UM, IN FACT, JUST BACK TO MY PREVIOUS POINT, ON PAGE TWO OF FIVE, IT IS SHOWN AS AN ANIMAL PROHIBITED AREA.
UM, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THE THING THAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST IS WITHIN THE ORDINANCE I SEE THAT WE'VE GONE FROM, UM, A DISCUSSION, A TWO LINE DISCUSSION, ONE SENTENCE DISCUSSION ON THAT SAID, NO PERSON SHALL PERMIT ANY E EQUIPMENT MENT FROM ANY ANIMAL UNDER THE PERSON'S CONTROL TO REMAIN ON THE BEACH, BUT SHALL DISPOSE OF THE SAME IN A SANITARY MANNER.
OF COURSE, WE ALL AGREE ON THAT, AND THAT IS HOW IT WAS PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN, HOWEVER, NOW IT'S WRITTEN SO THAT THE SECOND PART OF THAT, IT DOES SAY THAT SAME THING THAT YOU MUST CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR, YOUR ANIMALS ON THE BEACH, WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS THE PROPER AND RIGHT THING TO DO AND TO DISPOSE OF IT IN A SANITARY WAY.
BUT THEN THERE'S ANOTHER PIECE THAT'S ADDED PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
AND THIS IS WHAT I'M ASKING ABOUT.
ANY OWNER OR PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR AN ANIMAL WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL UPON CONVICTION BE SUBJECT TO THE PENALTY SET OUT IN 1 5 10.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY OKAY WITH ME TOO.
UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PENALTY IS 'CAUSE I HAVEN'T READ THAT, BUT HOPEFULLY IT'S SUBSTANTIAL.
IN ADDITION, THE ANIMAL MAY BE SEIZED BY THE APPROPRIATE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER, OR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
WHY IS THAT IN HERE? IS THAT IF THAT NEEDS TO BE IN, I THINK THAT WAS ALREADY IN THE TEXT.
UM, BUT I MEAN, THERE ARE, THERE ARE SITUATIONS WHERE ANIMALS ARE SUBJECT TO SEIZURE AND SIMPLY PUTS THE PUBLIC ON NOTICE OF THAT.
WELL, IT WASN'T IN THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THIS, AS I'M READING IT UNDER SECTION 8 2 2 11, UM, THERE WAS NO MENTION OF SEIZURE OF A DOG OR AN ANIMAL.
AND, UM, I WOULD LIKE IT REMOVED.
UM, SO I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE EXCEPTION, THE ACCEPTANCE OF, UM, THIS TO MOVE FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL WITH THE REMOVAL OF
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SECTION B UNDER ANIMALS.IT'S UNDER EIGHT B AND THEN, UM, 2D WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE VIOLATION PORTION IS FINE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU VIOLATE SOMETHING, THERE'S A PENALTY, BUT THE IDEA THAT AN ANIMAL WOULD BE SEIZED, UM, IS NEW.
AND, UM, I DON'T SEE THE JUSTIFIED HOW THAT GETS JUSTIFIED.
SO IT'S, UH, THE SECTION I'VE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE SCREEN.
THE SECTION THAT YOU RECOMMEND BE REMOVED, CORRECT.
UH, A ADOPT THE CHANGES WITH THAT REVISION? CORRECT.
I I THINK YOUR MOTION THEN WOULD BE TO MOVE TO AMEND THE MOTION THAT'S ALREADY ON THE FLOOR.
CORRECT? UM, I I I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THIS IS SPEAKING OF UNATTENDED DOGS, CORRECT? SPEAKING OF UNATTENDED DOGS, OR YES, PERHAPS YOU HAVE A DOG THAT'S BIT SOMEONE, BUT I UNDERSTAND, BUT IF THEY'RE NOT WITH THEIR OWNER TO ME, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS DOG RUNNING AROUND? WE HAVE IT SEIZED, BUT IF IT'S AN ATTENDED DOG, THE OWNER GETS THE VIOLATION AND REMOVES THE DOG.
SO I WOULD SAY THIS, YOUR AMENDMENT THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR MM-HMM
MAY ADD UNATTENDED DOGS OR ATTEN.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M, I KNOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, STEVEN.
'CAUSE WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DOG RUNNING AROUND OUT THERE FREELY AND YOU CAN'T FIND AN OWNER? WELL, YOU HAVE TO CALL CODE ENFORCEMENT, SO YOU HAVE TO SEIZE THE DOG.
I MEAN, I THINK AN ATTENDED ANIMAL UNDER THE EXISTING ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE CAN ALSO BE SEIZED UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MIGHT JUSTIFY THAT I'M NOT RIGHT.
BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR CHANGE AND, UM, ADDING A PROVISION, UM, UNDER THE PENALTY FOR A VIOLATION THAT AN ANIMAL CAN BE SEIZED, UM, BY THE, IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE TO, TO ME.
AND I THINK PROBABLY THE MAJORITY OF, UM, ANIMAL OWNERS AND, UM, PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT ANIMALS ON THE ISLAND.
SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, STEVE, THAT AN UNINTENDED, UM, AND UNATTENDED ANIMAL, I COULD PROBABLY LIVE WITH THAT LANGUAGE.
UM, I MEAN, MS. BECKER, I MEAN THE, THE CURRENT LANGUAGE, IT'S IN THE CODE TODAY.
WELL, I'M JUST READING IF THAT'S TRUE.
I I JUST NEED YOU TO POINT IT OUT TO ME BECAUSE WHAT I'M READING FROM IS WHAT WAS PROVIDED TO US INTO THE STAFF REPORT AND IN SECTION 8 2 2 11 8 OF THE EXISTING CODE.
AND SPECIFICALLY WHAT IT SAYS IS NO PERSON SHALL PERMIT ANY E AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE REMIT.
BUT THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER ABOUT A PENALTY, ET CETERA.
SECTION 8 2 2 11 A, THE LAST SENTENCE READS ANY VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF MAY RESULT IN THE OWNER OF THE ANIMAL BEING CHARGED WITH A MISDEMEANOR AND THE ANIMAL BEING SEIZED BY THE APPROPRIATE ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER OR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
CAN YOU HELP? JUST, CAN YOU FIND THAT FOR ME? YOU'RE ON RIGHT PAGE.
IT'S THE LAST SENTENCE IN THE FIRST FULL PARAGRAPH AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.
IF YOU WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT AND YOU VIBRATION.
OH, RIGHT HERE? YES, RIGHT THERE.
OH, CAN YOU SEE THAT? WELL, I DO SEE IT.
AND THEN THANK YOU FOR POINTING IT OUT.
UM, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO HAVE IT STRUCK.
I, YOU KNOW, THIS TO ME DOES NOT RAISE TO THE LEVEL OF WE'VE GOT OF SEIZING SOMEONE'S DOG, UM, OR ANIMAL OF ANY SORT.
SO IN MY OPINION, I'M HAPPY WITH, UM, GOING WITH THE UNATTENDED ANIMAL WHO MAY BE IN VIOLATION.
BUT OTHERWISE, I DO NOT THINK THIS RISES TO A LEVEL WHERE SOMEONE SHOULD BE, UM, IN FEAR OF HAVING THEIR ANIMAL, UM, SEIZED.
IT'S JUST MY OPINION, AND IT'S THE MOTION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE OUR MOTION TO READ THAT, UM, AN UNATTENDED, UM, ANIMAL RATHER THAN BEING LEFT WIDE OPEN.
SORRY, I DIDN'T CATCH IT BEFORE IN OUR ORDINANCES.
HAD GLAD IT'S HERE NOW TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.
BUT THE, THIS SECTION EIGHT ANIMALS WAS, IT HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS MIXED IN
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THERE MM-HMMAND SO AGAIN, WE WORKED TO CLARIFY WHEN YOU COULD OR COULDN'T HAVE DOGS WHEN THEY HAD TO HAVE LEASH OR VOICE CONTROL, AND THEN THE VIOLATIONS, UM, AND, UM, THE SECTION ON EXCREMENT WAS MOVED TO THAT MM-HMM
SEPARATE SECTION UNDER, UNDER THE PENALTY.
SO YEAH, I SEE IT WAS SEPARATED OUT AND HOW IT GOT LEFT BEHIND.
THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR THAT.
SO FOR PURPOSES OF THE DISCUSSION, 'CAUSE I HAVE A QUESTION, I'LL SECOND HER AMENDMENT.
SO IN THE DISCUSSION PART, CURTIS DOES THIS, WILL THIS MAKE THIS, DOES THIS APPLY, THIS PARAGRAPH APPLY ISLAND WIDE? IT APPLIES ON THE BEACH, ON THE BEACH ON THAT ONE SPECIFIC PART OF THE BEACH, OR THE WHOLE BEACH? THE WHOLE BEACH.
WELL, IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE TO ME IF IT'S APPLIED TO THE ENTIRE BEACH BECAUSE THERE ARE INSTANCES THAT THAT MAY HAVE TO HAPPEN FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
SO I, I I KNOW I, YOU KNOW, YEAH, I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT ANIMALS AS YOU DO, BUT YOU'RE KNOW, I'M JUST SAYING IT'S IN THERE FOR A PURPOSE AND I HIGHLY, HIGHLY DOUBT SO, AND A VERY LOW PERCENTAGE THAT THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
BUT THERE ARE OCCASIONS THAT MAY HAVE TO HAPPEN.
WE'VE GOT, UH, TIMES OF THE YEAR WHERE DOGS DO NOT HAVE TO BE ON A LEASH.
AND IF ONE OF THOSE ANIMALS BECOMES UNRULY AND THE OWNER IS UNABLE TO CONTROL THE DOG, AND THE DOG IS CAUSING POTENTIAL HARM TO OTHER PEOPLE, IT SEEMS TO ME IT IS APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THAT DOG SEIZED, EVEN THOUGH YOU COULD ARGUE THAT IT MAY BE ATTENDED.
SO I, I DO NOT FAVOR THIS CHANGE.
UM, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDED, WE CAN JUST GO TO THE AMENDED MOTION.
YOU'RE NOW VOTING ON MS. BECKER'S MOTION TO AMEND THE AMENDED MOTION.
WAS THERE A SECOND? YES, THERE WAS MS. AZIMO.
SO IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDED MOTION.
AND ALL IN FAVOR OF THE, UM, ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO MOVING ON, IT'S A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT.
WE HAVE TONS, I MEAN, LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF ANIMALS IN THE, UM, SHELTERS.
AND, UM, THE BEST POLICY IS FOR HOMEOWNERS, FOR, UM, ANIMAL OWNERS TO TAKE CARE AND MAKE SURE THAT THEIR ANIMALS ARE UNDER THEIR STRICT CONTROL AND SUPERVISION WHEN IN PUBLIC, ANYWHERE THAT THEY PICK UP FROM AFTER THEM PROPERLY AND DISPOSE OF IT PROPERLY.
UM, AND I'D LIKE TO KEEP THE ANIMALS OUT OF THE SHELTERS AND IN THEIR, UM, OWNER'S CARE SO THAT WE DON'T END UP WITH MORE PROBLEMS THAN WE ALREADY HAVE.
[8.b. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend Sections 16-3-104.G and 16-4-102.A.6 to Add Workforce Housing as a Permitted Conditional Use in the Moderate to High Density Residential (RM12) District, to Amend Section 16-4-102.B.1 to Include Property Size and Location Requirements for Workforce Housing in RM-12, to Amend Section 16-4-105.A to Provide for a Workforce Housing Density Bonus and Impervious Surface Increase in RM-12, to Amend Section 16-4-105.B to Clarify Workforce Housing Agreement Requirements, and to Provide for Severability and an Effective Date - Missy Luick, Director of Planning]
TO OUR NEXT CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND AMENDS TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 16 3 1 0 4 G 16 4 1 0 2 A SIX TO ADD WORKFORCE HOUSING AS A PERMANENT CONDITION USED IN THE MODERATE TO HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL RM 12 DISTRICT TO AMEND SECTION 16 4 1 0 2 B ONE TO INCLUDE PROPERTY SIZE AND LOCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING.AND RM 12 TO AMEND SECTION 14 4 1 0 5 A TO PROVIDE FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS, AN IMPERVIOUS SURFACE INCREASE IN R 12 TO AMEND SECTION 16 4 1 0 5 B TO CLARIFY WORKFORCE HOUSING AGREEMENT REQUIREMENTS AND TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
MISSY LUECK, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND SEAN, UM, BEN BROWN ARE HERE TO, UH, WHO'S A, UM, ASSISTANT TO THE TOWN MANAGER.
I ALWAYS FORGET YOUR TITLE, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC, UH, INITIATIVES ARE HERE TO PRESENT FOR US.
AND, UH, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE NORTH POINT INITIATIVE, UH, SINCE 2022 FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW.
SO I'M GONNA PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON KEY EVENTS THAT LED US TO TODAY'S ZMA AND TEXT AMENDMENT APPLICATIONS.
AND THEN MISSY WILL GO THROUGH THE STAFF REPORTS, BUT WE ALL KNOW WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED, UH, HERE ON WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY, JUST WEST OF THE US POST OFFICE, WITHIN A MILE OF THE HILTON HEAD SCHOOLS, THE
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ISLAND REC CENTER.AND THIS PROPERTY IS, UH, JUST OVER 11 ACRES, 11 POINT, UH, UH, 3, 3 7, I BELIEVE.
AND IT IS, THIS PROPERTY WAS PART OF THE HILTON HEAD PLANTATION MASTER PLAN BACK IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES.
THEN THE S-C-D-O-T ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY IN THE 1990S TO HELP FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CROSS ISLAND.
AND THEN TOWARDS THE END OF THE CROSS ISLAND CONSTRUCTION, THE TOWN ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY.
SO THE TOWN HAS OWNED THIS LAND SINCE THE, UH, LATE THE LATE NINETIES.
IN 2019, THE TOWN ADOPTED THE WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH OUTLINED STRATEGIES THAT TOWN SHOULD IMPLEMENT IN, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
IN 2020 AND 2021, THE TOWN ADOPTED POLICY INITIATIVES TO ENCOURAGE THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORKFORCE HOUSING.
THESE WERE THE BONUS DENSITIES, THE COMMERCIAL CONVERSION.
BUT THEN, UH, THE TOWN COUNCIL HAD A WORKSHOP IN FEBRUARY OF 2022, AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WAS ASKED IS, WE HAVE THESE BONUS DENSITIES, WE HAVE THESE COMMERCIAL CONVERSIONS, BUT WE'RE NOT BRINGING ANY NEW WORKFORCE HOUSING UNITS TO MARKET.
AND ONE OF THE, UH, STRATEGIES THAT WAS OUTLINED IN THE WORKFORCE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN WAS PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
AND UP UNTIL THIS POINT, THE TOWN HAD NOT ADVANCED A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO BRING WORKFORCE HOUSING TO HILTON HEAD.
SO THE TOWN'S LAND HOLDINGS WERE STUDIED, AND THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY WAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING A PROPERTY THAT COULD BE REDEVELOPED FOR HOUSING.
SINCE THIS PROPERTY WAS ALREADY DEVELOPED AS A COMMERCIAL SUBDIVISION, IT COULD THEN BE REDEVELOPED TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, A WORKFORCE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP.
SO THE TOWN COUNCIL DIRECTED THE TOWN MANAGER AND STAFF TO PUT TOGETHER AN RFQ.
THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY THE TOWN'S HELP WANTED SIGN TO BRING IN A DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PARTNER WITH CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE IN FINANCE, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, LEASE, UH, UH, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.
AND THE TOWN COUNCIL ALSO CREATED THE NORTH POINT PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AND I KNOW THAT COMMITTEE WAS, UH, ESTABLISHED ON JUNE 21ST.
AND I REMEMBER THAT DATE BECAUSE I CAME BACK TO THE TOWN ON JUNE 20TH.
AND THIS WAS WHEN I BECAME VERY INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT.
UH, WE HAD 10 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED, AND THE COMMITTEE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THE TOWN MANAGER.
THE COMMITTEE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH ME, AND THOSE 10 FIRMS WERE VETTED, AND SEVEN OF 'EM WERE QUALIFIED TO ADVANCE IN THE PROCESS.
SO SEVEN OF THE FIRMS WERE INVITED TO SUBMIT FULL DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS.
AND ONE STREET RESIDENTIAL WAS IDENTIFIED AS A FIRM THAT HAD OVER 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, CONSTRUCTING, AND MANAGING, UH, WORKFORCE AND MIXED INCOME COMMUNITIES.
SO THEN WE INVITED ONE STREET TO COME VISIT HILTON HEAD, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
WE WENT TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, WE WENT TO THE ISLAND REC, WE WALKED THE NORTH POINT SITE.
WE VISITED THE PALMETTO VILLAGE COMMUNITY THAT WAS DEVELOPED BY SEA PINES, AND IT GAVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY GET TO KNOW THE TEAM BETTER.
AND THEN THEY INVITED THE COMMITTEE TO THE ATLANTA METRO AREA, AND WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT, UH, PROJECTS THAT WERE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, UH, COMMUNITIES THAT WERE ALREADY DEVELOPED.
AND WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE ONE STREET TEAM.
WE LEARNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION, AND WE LEARNED ABOUT THEIR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.
AND IT REALLY BEGAN TO SOLIDIFY THAT PARTNERSHIP.
AND THEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2023, THIS WAS WHEN THE TOWN MANAGER AND THE MAYOR ANNOUNCED THAT, UH, ONE STREET HAD BEEN SELECTED AS THE TOWN'S PREFERRED DEVELOPMENT PARTNER.
WHAT THAT MEANT IS THE RFP HAD BEEN AWARDED TO ONE STREET.
THAT'S ALSO WHEN THE TOWN COUNCIL AND THE, UM, THE NORTH POINT COMMITTEE BEGAN REALLY WORKING ON THAT PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE.
THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, AND THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WAS EXECUTED ON JUNE 18TH, 2024 AND APPROVED BY TOWN COUNCIL.
AND THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY.
THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT REQUIRES THE TOWN MANAGER TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION THAT WILL SUPPORT THE USE, THE DENSITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS TO ADVANCE NORTH POINT.
AND THE, UH, THE ZMA WAS FIRST DISCUSSED AT A WORKSHOP WITH TOWN COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR, AND THAT'S WHEN, UH, STAFF WAS GIVEN DIRECTION TO ADVANCE THE RM 12 ZONING AND CALIBRATE THAT TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
AND I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT STATED 150 TO 170 MULTIFAMILY APARTMENT UNITS, A COMBINATION OF ONE, TWO, AND THREE BEDROOMS. AND, UH, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE REVIEWED SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANS THAT COULD YIELD AS MANY AS 1 71 70 DOES NOT RESPECT THE CHARACTER
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OF THE LAND.AND I'M GONNA SHOW YOU IN JUST A MINUTE.
BUT, UM, WE ULTIMATELY ARE GOING TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR 157 UNITS, AND THAT INCLUDES AN TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR THE ONSITE PROPERTY MANAGER.
AND I'LL SHOW YOU THE SITE PLAN IN JUST A MINUTE.
BUT WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THE PLAN.
I'LL GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SCOPE AT LENGTH, BUT THIS IS AN ENERGY EFFICIENT, SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH HIGH QUALITY ARCHITECTURE, HIGH QUALITY CONSTRUCTION.
I MENTIONED 157 UNITS AND AMENITIES AND PROGRAMMING THAT PRIORITIZE THE WELLBEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF RESIDENTS.
BUT THIS IS THE ONSITE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, THE COMMUNITY BUILDING WITH HIGH-SPEED INTERNET, A POOL, OUTDOOR COMMUNAL SPACES WITH GRILLING PAVILION, SEATING, PLAYGROUND, WALKING TRAILS, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR FITNESS STATIONS, COMMUNITY GARDEN, LAUNDRY APPLIANCE WITHIN EACH INDIVIDUAL UNIT.
BUT I MENTIONED THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A CLASS A APARTMENT COMMUNITY WITH CLASS A AMENITIES.
THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL WORKFORCE HOUSING COMMUNITY.
I, I'VE LIVED IN, UH, GRAYSTONE LOCK WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO HILTON HEAD.
UM, MY WIFE AND I LIVED THERE.
THAT'S ON THE, UH, EASTERN SIDE OF MARSHALL ROAD.
WE WERE THE FIRST, UH, RENTERS TO LIVE IN OUR UNIT.
AND IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY NICE.
UM, I'VE NEVER LIVED IN ANYTHING AS NICE AS NORTH POINT WILL BE.
THIS IS FOR THE ISLAND'S ESSENTIAL WORKFORCE.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TEACHERS, FIRST RESPONDERS, HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, HOSPITALITY WORKERS, AND MANY MORE.
BUT JUST TO REITERATE FOR THE COMMUNITY, 'CAUSE WE HEARD EVERYONE LOUD AND CLEAR, BUT YOU HAVE TO WORK ON HILTON HEAD TO LIVE AT NORTH POINT.
THIS IS 60 TO 150% OF THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME WITH AT LEAST 50% OF THE HOUSEHOLDS EARNING 60 TO 80% OF THE A MI.
AND WHEN WE HEAR A MI, WE THINK SOME, WE THINK IN TERMS OF PEOPLE, AND I'LL SHOW YOU A SLIDE JUST AFTER THIS, THAT SHOWS THAT THIS IS TRUE MIXED INCOME.
THERE WILL ALSO BE AFFORDABILITY COVENANTS ON THE PROPERTY.
SO THE, THIS WILL BE A WORKFORCE NEIGHBORHOOD IN PERPETUITY.
ALTHOUGH THE GROUND LEASE RUNS FOR 65 YEARS, THE LAND, UH, WILL CONTINUE TO BE A, A WORKFORCE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THIS GETS, TYPICALLY GETS UPDATED ABOUT MAY EVERY YEAR.
SO WE'RE ABOUT A MONTH AWAY FROM HAVING, UH, THE CURRENT, UH, 20, 25 NUMBERS, BUT I MENTIONED 60 TO 150% OF THE AREA MEDIAN INCOME.
AND TO TRULY UNDERSTAND WHOM THIS SERVES, WE CALIBRATED BEAUFORT COUNTY, A MI TO UNDERSTAND WHERE LOCAL WAGES LANDED ON THIS.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT A FAMILY OF THREE, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS ABOUT 57,000 A YEAR, UP TO ABOUT 144,000 A YEAR.
BUT THIS IS A REAL VARIETY OF, UH, THE WORKFORCE.
AND WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE FIREFIGHTER AND THE NURSE, THAT'S WHEN WE ENDED UP GOING AS HIGH AS ONE 50.
'CAUSE THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP IT ALL INCLUSIVE.
AND OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE SOME UNITS AT THE HIGHER END, IT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE UNITS AT THE LOWER END OF THE RENT SO YOU GET TRUE MIXED INCOME.
BUT I, I THINK OF MY WIFE AND I, WHEN WE FIRST RENTED ON THE ISLAND, WE HAD A COMBINED INCOME OF ABOUT 50,000 A YEAR.
UH, WE PAID ABOUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH IN RENT.
AND AT THE TIME WE THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY EXPENSIVE.
UH, BUT WE COULD, WE AFFORDED OUR BILLS.
WE WERE ABLE TO BUY OUR FIRST HOME.
WE WERE ABLE TO BUY OUR SECOND HOME WHERE WE'VE BEEN FOR THE, THE LAST 19 YEARS.
AND WHEN WE THINK IN TERMS OF THE A MI, THESE, THESE ARE THE FUTURE LEADERS OF HILTON HEAD, THAT THEY CAN HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES THAT MANY OF US HAVE HAD WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO START OUR CAREERS ON HILTON HEAD IN, IN ADVANCE THROUGHOUT OUR CAREER.
BUT WHAT IS ONE STREET RESIDENTIAL'S ROLE AS OUR DEVELOPMENT PARTNER? UH, THIS IS ALL IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, BUT IT'S FINANCING, DESIGN AND PERMITTING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION, LEASE UP, LONG-TERM PROGRAMMING, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.
WHAT'S THE TOWN'S ROLE? UH, PROJECT VISION.
THIS, THIS CAME FROM TOWN COUNCIL, THE 11 ACRES OF LAND THROUGH A 65 YEAR GROUND LEASE, A MILLION DOLLAR GRANT WITH MONEY SECURED FROM ARPA.
THIS WAS CO THIS WAS COVID STIMULUS MONEY ZONING ENTITLEMENTS, THE REASON WE'RE HERE TODAY AS LONG AS WELL AS THE LONG-TERM PROGRAMMING AND MONITORING OF THE COMMUNITY.
WE MET WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON MARCH 19TH.
THE PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED ADVANCING THIS APPLICATION TO TOWN COUNCIL WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL.
WE TALKED ABOUT THE RM TWELVES DISTRICT, WE TALKED ABOUT THE 25%, UH, DENSITY BONUS FOR UP TO 15 UNITS PER ACRE.
I CAN TELL YOU WHERE WE'RE LANDING, WE'RE GONNA BE JUST UNDER 14 UNITS PER ACRE.
BUT THE 15 UNITS PER ACRE SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
UH, WE LOOKED AT THE MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE AT LENGTH.
I'LL SHARE A SITE PLAN IN JUST A MINUTE.
AND, UM, MISSY'S AND HER TEAM'S RESEARCH SHOWED THAT, UM,
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BEST IN CLASS BEST PRACTICES IS ABOUT 50% PERVIOUS, 50% IMPERVIOUS, UH, FOR MODERATE TO HIGH DENSITY, THAT 12 TO 16 UNITS PER ACRE.WE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING ABLE TO TRULY CALIBRATE OUR SITE, WHICH WAS A REQUIREMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
AND I CAN SHOW YOU, UH, WHERE WE LANDED AND HOW, AND HOW WE CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE OURSELVES TO MAINTAIN THE, UH, 45%, WHICH IS THE MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE IN THE PR ZONING, UH, DISTRICT THAT THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED.
TODAY WE'RE AT COMMITTEE, OF COURSE, TODAY WE HAVE TOWN COUNCIL FIRST READING SCHEDULED FOR MAY.
AND, UH, SECOND AND FINAL ME READING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 3RD.
I MENTIONED THAT I BECAME INVOLVED WITH THIS PROJECT ON JUNE 20TH.
IN JULY, WE STARTED DOING OUR CAPACITY STUDY.
WE IDENTIFIED ALL THE SIGNIFICANT AND SPECIMEN TREES ON THE PROPERTY.
WE IDENTIFIED ALL OF OUR, UH, SETBACKS AND BUFFERS.
THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL TREES ON THE SITE THAT DIDN'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF, OF SIGNIFICANT THAT WE ARE ABSOLUTELY PRESERVING, BUT WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE APPROXIMATELY, UH, ACRE AND A HALF THAT'S RIGHT ON JARVIS CREEK, AND IDENTIFIED THIS AREA AS HAVING TO BE PRESERVED IN PERPETUITY.
SO THIS AREA WILL, WILL REMAIN OPEN SPACE, UH, FOREVER.
BUT THIS HELPED US DEFINE, DEFINE OUR BUILDING ENVELOPE.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT ALL OF OUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE SO WE COULD HAVE AS LIGHT OF A FOOTPRINT AS POSSIBLE, AND UTILIZE AS MUCH OF THAT EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WAS INSTALLED IN THE LATE EIGHTIES.
SO AFTER WE HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CAPACITY, THAT'S WHEN WE KNEW THAT THE SITE COULD YIELD AS MANY AS 170 UNITS.
BUT I ALWAYS THOUGHT WE'D LAND AT ABOUT ONE 60, AND WE ENDED UP, AS I MENTIONED, 1 57.
THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING I'M, I'M REALLY PROUD OF, BUT THIS SITE IS GOING TO YIELD A SIX 56% FUNCTIONAL OPEN SPACE.
AND IT HAS SEVERAL BIO RETENTION PONDS AND SWALES STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AROUND THE SITE.
BUT THESE ARE AREAS THAT WILL COLLECT AND INFILTRATE STORM WATER.
UH, AND I'VE BEEN ASKED, HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO HAVE 56% OPEN SPACE? BUT WE WERE ORIGINALLY LANDING AT THAT 50% PERVIOUS IMPERVIOUS.
AND, UH, IT'S BECAUSE SOME OF THE OPEN SPACE AMENITIES LIKE THE SWIMMING POOL IS, UH, IMPERVIOUS.
BUT WHAT WE DID IS WE, WE TOOK ALL THE DRY AISLES AND WE SHRUNK 'EM TO THE MINIMUM THAT'S BEST PRACTICES TO REDUCE BLACKTOP ON THE SITE, REDUCE URBAN HEAT.
AND, UH, WE WERE, WE WERE PROUD OF THIS, BUT WE WANTED TO CONTINUE CHALLENGING OURSELVES.
AND THE VERY LAST SLIDE IS THE SITE, THE SITE PLAN.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT CONNECTIVITY.
I SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME ON THIS SITE, AND I'VE, I'VE WALKED OVER TO THE SCHOOL CAMPUS, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT EASY WITH THIS CURRENT, WITH THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION.
SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE US POSTAL SERVICE TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY, TO CREATE SAFE CONNECTIVITY TO THE SCHOOL CAMPUS, TO THE ISLAND REC.
UM, AS WE KNOW, THE LMO HAS DIFFERENT TRIGGERS FOR TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.
UH, THIS COMMUNITY DOESN'T RISE TO THAT LEVEL.
WE, OF COURSE, ARE DOING ONE BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
AND, UH, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT WHAT THIS WILL GENERATE AT THE PEAK HOURS.
AND IT IS ANTICIPATED BASED ON THE, UH, ITE MANUAL, THE, THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING MANUAL THAT AN APARTMENT COMMUNITY THIS SIZE WOULD GENERATE AROUND 70, UH, PEAK TRIPS.
BUT WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS, HAVING SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON MARSHALL ROAD, I'VE LIVED THERE FOR ALMOST 25 YEARS.
I DRIVE BY THE APARTMENTS EVERY DAY.
UH, THAT'S, UH, I THINK 194 UNITS.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN HEAVY TRAFFIC IN AND OUT OF THOSE APARTMENT COMMUNITIES.
ALSO, AQUA TERRA I DRIVE BY THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS.
I'VE NEVER SEEN HEAVY TRAFFIC IN AND OUT AROUND THE PEAK PERIODS.
AND I'M SURE THE EXPERTS CAN EXPLAIN THIS BETTER THAN I CAN.
I HAVE TO THINK SOMETHING PROBABLY HAS TO DO WITH, UH, OUR HOSPITALITY TEAM WHO WORK DIFFERENT HOURS.
BUT, UH, WE ARE DOING THE, UH, THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.
WE ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO, UM, MITIGATE AND IMPROVE FLOW IN THIS AREA.
WE'RE ALSO TALKING WITH, UH, BEAUFORT COUNTY.
AND HERE'S THE NEXT SLIDE, BUT THIS SHOWS THE CONNECTIVITY THROUGH THE POST OFFICE PROPERTY, UH, GREAT PATHWAY ROADWAY CONNECTIVITY.
BUT ONE THING I'VE BEEN ASKED AS WE'VE BEEN STUDYING OUR ADJACENT PROPERTIES, WE'VE, WE'VE STUDIED MARSH POINT TO THE NORTH.
WE'VE STUDIED THE POST OFFICE PROPERTY, BUT WE ALL KNOW WHEN IT RAINS HEAVY, THE THE WATER POOLS ON THE POST OFFICE PROPERTY.
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ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I WAS ASKED, IS THAT BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH BLACKTOP, WELL, WHAT WE'VE KNOWN, WHAT WE'VE LEARNED IS THIS SITE WAS DEVELOPED COMPLETELY VOID OF ANY DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE, IN THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY.AND UNLIKE THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY WHERE WE WILL INCORPORATE THE BIORETENTION SWALES AND THE AREAS FOR WATER TO INFILTRATE, THAT WASN'T DONE.
THIS PROPERTY WASN'T GRADED PROPERLY.
UH, SO WE'RE GONNA FIX THAT BY ACQUIRING PROPERTY.
WE'RE GONNA INSTALL THE DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA HAVE, UH, A DRAINAGE EASEMENT WHERE WE CAN GRADE THIS FOR BETTER INFILTRATION.
AND THIS SITE WILL FUNCTION FAR BETTER, UH, POST-CONSTRUCTION THAN IT DOES TODAY.
HERE'S MY LAST SLIDE AND MY FAVORITE SLIDE, BUT I MENTIONED WE WERE ORIGINALLY LANDING AT 50% PERVIOUS, 50% IMPERVIOUS.
WE'RE GONNA BE AT 55% PERVIOUS, 45% IMPERVIOUS.
AND THE WAY WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT IS THE MULTIMODAL PATHWAY WILL BE ENTIRELY PERVIOUS.
WE'RE ALSO INCORPORATE A LOT OF PERVIOUS MATERIALS THROUGHOUT THE SITE, AND THAT'S MORE AREA FOR WATER TO INFILTRATE.
SO THIS, THIS IS BEST IN CLASS.
I MEAN, QUITE FRANKLY, WE'RE AT BEST IN CLASS AT 50%, BUT, UH, WE'RE HILTON HEAD ISLAND.
WE WANNA DO THINGS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IS DOING THEM.
IT ALSO VERY MUCH INCORPORATES NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE.
IF WE LOOK AT THESE UNITS TO THE NORTH, WE KNOW THAT MARSH POINT IS ABOUT 35 FEET IN HEIGHT.
THESE UNITS WILL BE 35 FEET IN HEIGHT, AND THAT'S ALL TWO STORY BUILDINGS.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A COMBINATION OF ONE, TWO, AND THREE STORY.
BUT THAT GIVES US THAT NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE WITH STRATEGICALLY PLACED OPEN SPACE.
IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE, UH, THE ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS ON THIS PROJECT ARE, ARE OUTSTANDING.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING THAT WITH YOU SOON.
AND, UH, WE HAVE NINE DIFFERENT BUILDING TYPES ON THIS SITE, BUT THIS IS AN AWARD-WINNING PROJECT CLASS, A APARTMENT, COMMUNITY CLASS A AMENITIES.
AND I JUST WANTED TO TEE THIS UP BEFORE MISSY WENT THROUGH THE STAFF REPORTS.
I KNOW SOMETIMES WITH THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENTS, IT'S PREMATURE TO GET THIS DEEP INTO SITE PLANNING, BUT IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR US TO TELL THE STORY WITHOUT SHARING THE SITE PLAN.
AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
I WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE, OF COURSE, AFTER MISSY GOES THROUGH THE STAFF'S FINDINGS.
I KNOW YOU'VE WORKED HARD ON THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND IT SHOWS, UM, A LOT OF THE GOOD ASPECTS, THINGS THAT ARE CLASS A THAT ARE BEST IN CLASS OR BECAUSE OF THE HARD WORK YOU'VE DONE AND THE STAFF HAS DONE.
BUT WE APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP.
WOULD YOU JUST GO BACK ONE SLIDE AND SHOULD POINT OUT AGAIN TO ME WHERE THE 45 FOOT, UM, BUILDINGS ARE? YEAH, THESE ARE THE 35 AND THEN THE 45 ARE THE, ARE THE THREE STORY.
AND IF YOU, YOU NOTICE, UH, THE LMO HAS SOME FLEXIBILITY FOR THAT, UH, THAT BUFFER RIGHT OFF WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY.
THIS SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN DOESN'T WHERE WE HAVE AT LEAST A HUNDRED OR MORE FEET FROM THE EDGE OF PAVEMENT AND AT LEAST 50 FEET OF BUFFERING, IF NOT MORE.
BUT I GO BACK TO TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE, UH, THE SUMMER HOUSE.
THEY'RE WELL SET BACK, LOTS OF TREES AND IT'S, IT'S NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE.
AND IN THIS AREA, THE, UM, FLOOD ELEVATION LEVEL IS AT A PLACE WHERE IT WOULD NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL HEIGHT TO THESE BUILDINGS.
THESE ARE TRULY 45 FEET MAXIMUM.
THIS SITE IS ABOUT 16 FEET IN ELEVATION AND GRADUALLY DRAINS, UM, SHEETS TOWARDS THE MARSH.
BUT YES, IT'S, IT'S A TRUE GRADE PLUS 45.
AND FROM THE, UM, FROM THE DIAGRAMS, THIS ONE AND THE ORIGINAL ONE WHERE YOU WERE SHOWING WHERE THE TREES CURRENTLY, UM, WHERE THEY WERE WHEN YOU STARTED YOUR INVESTIGATION, HOW MUCH OF THAT WILL HAVE TO BE CUT DOWN? THAT'S PART OF THE, BETWEEN THE EDGE OF THE PAVEMENT TO WHERE THE FIRST BUILDINGS WILL BE? IS IS IT SIGNIFICANT? YEAH, NOT, NOT MUCH.
BETTER WHEN I SHOW YOU THE, UM, SITE PLAN WHEN WE GET UP CLOSER TO THE BUILDINGS MM-HMM
WHICH ARE SET BACK, WE HAVE TO DO SOME DIRT WORK FOR SOME BIOFILTRATION HERE, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO MEANDER THE PATHWAY.
AND I'VE, I WALKED THAT WITH THE ARCHITECT AS RECENTLY AS LAST WEEK.
BUT WE'RE ABLE TO MEANDER THAT PATHWAY THROUGH THE TREES.
SO IT'S, IT'S PRESERVING AS MUCH OF THE TREES AS POSSIBLE.
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FORTUNATE BECAUSE PART OF THAT RIGHT OF WAY IS HEAVILY VEGETATED AS WELL.SO, UM, AND IN TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE CHANGE FROM 35% TO 45% IMPERVIOUS, ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT I HAVE IS IN THE CHOICE OF CONTRACTORS, UM, UM, MATERIALS WHERE, UM, SOME OF THE IMPERVIOUS MIGHT BE BEING COUNTED AS DRIVE AISLES.
SO IT'S, WHILE WE THINK IMPERVIOUS, WE THINK MORE NATURAL.
AND, UM, I'VE HEARD THE ARGUMENT THAT IMPERVIOUS COULD BE COUNTED AS LONG AS YOU'RE USING A SURFACE THAT DRAINS, WHICH MAKES SENSE, BUT IT TAKES AWAY FROM THE GREENERY IN THE ASPECT OF A NATURAL SETTING.
ARE WE BEING VERY CAREFUL WITH REGARD TO MATERIALS THAT ARE BEING USED TO GET TO THAT FROM 35% TO 45%? AND THANK YOU FOR NOT GOING TO 50%.
AND JUST TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH THAT JUST A SECOND, BECAUSE WHEN WE LANDED AT 50%, I WAS EXCITED MM-HMM
BECAUSE WE SQUEEZED THE DRY VIALS.
WE DID EVERYTHING TO, UH, TO LAND THERE, BUT THEN CHALLENGING THE TEAM TO GET DOWN TO THAT 45% BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S IN PLACE WITH THE EXISTING PR ZONING.
UH, WE HAD TO INCORPORATE THE, THE PERVIOUS MATERIALS MM-HMM
AND TO YOUR, TO YOUR POINT, UH, THAT'LL REQUIRE SOME MAINTENANCE.
BUT WE HAVE, UH, PAVERS AND WE ALSO HAVE THE, UH, MULTIMODAL PATHWAY WILL BE, UH, PERVIOUS ASPHALT.
SO IT, IT WILL REQUIRE SOME MAINTENANCE.
BUT, UH, WE'VE BEEN VERY RESPECT, RESPECTFUL TO THE SITE THROUGH THE ENTIRE SITE PLANNING PROCESS.
AND WE HAVE SOFT PATHWAYS OVER HERE, UH, WHERE THE DOG PARK IS.
AND THESE ARE ALL SOFT PATHWAYS.
AND THEN WE HAVE AN EDIBLE GARDEN.
UM, WE HAVE A YOGA LAWN, BUT WE, WE INCORPORATED AS MUCH OF THAT, UM, NATURAL PERVIOUS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AS AS POSSIBLE.
HAVE YOU, HAVE YOU, UH, CONSIDERED POROUS PAVEMENT EVERYWHERE? WE, WE HAVE, WE'VE CONSIDERED IT FOR THE MULTIMODAL PATHWAY.
THERE WERE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE ONGOING MAINTENANCE AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THAT OVER TIME.
UH, SO WE ARE ENVISIONING PAVERS, BUT ALL THAT WILL GET THOROUGHLY VETTED THROUGH THE SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW PROCESS.
BUT WE'RE ENVISIONING THE, THE PERVIOUS PAVEMENT FOR THE PATHWAY AND THEN THE PAVERS FOR, FOR THE PARKING.
AND THE TOWN'S INVOLVED IN ALL OF THAT, THOSE ASPECTS OF THE DESIGN.
BUT THE PA I MEAN, WHAT PERCENTAGE DO YOU PUT ON PAVERS? I MEAN, BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY NOT POROUS.
WELL, THEY, THE PAVERS ARE, UH, THEY'RE ON A, A ROCK BED.
THEY'RE, BUT ARE THEY SOLID PAVERS OR ARE THEY, ARE THEY LANDSCAPE PAVERS? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE? I I DO THE, UM, WE'RE GETTING PRETTY DEEP INTO THE DPR PROCESS, WHICH WE HAVE.
BUT YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 35 TO 45, AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU'VE TRIED TO INCORPORATE POR UH, POROUS ASPHALT EVERYWHERE, UH, VERSUS THE PRICE OF PAVERS EVERYWHERE.
PAVER, IT'S SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.
UM, WHICH WOULD MAKE UP THE LONGEVITY OF THE MAINTENANCE AND THE PRICE.
WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE LOOKING INTO IT.
YEAH, BUT I, I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I EVEN, UM, BROUGHT UP THE POSSIBILITY OF USING SOME KIND OF A PLANTATION MIX ON THE WESTERN PART OF THE PROPERTY, BUT THE CONCERN WAS THE, THE ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF IT.
AND WHEN YOU DO YOUR, UM, TRAFFIC STUDY MM-HMM
AND, UH, ASSUME A LANDING ON GUMTREE AND PROBABLY AN ALREADY FAILING ROAD, THAT IT'S NOT GONNA BE IMPROVED IN ANY WAY.
COULDN'T YOU, WOULDN'T YOU OR HAVEN'T YOU, OR, OR DID YOU CONSIDER GOING OUT OF THE WEST SIDE CROSSING JARVIS CREEK WITH A TWO LANE LOW PROFILE PROFILE BRIDGE AND CONNECTING WITH SPANISH WELLS STAYING OFF OF GUMTREE? IT WAS ONLY DISCUSSED VERY BRIEFLY.
AND A COUPLE OF THINGS WERE, WERE BROUGHT UP IS WE HAVE THIS ACRE AND A HALF OF GREEN SPACE ON THE WESTERN PART OF THE PROPERTY.
AND BY MAINTAINING THAT AS GREEN SPACE IN PERPETUITY, UH, WE KNEW WE WERE PROTECTING THE WATERS OF JARVIS CREEK AS OPPOSED TO TAKING A, A ROAD AND A BRIDGE THROUGH THERE.
PLUS THE COST OF A BRIDGE, AS YOU KNOW, ARE REALLY EXPENSIVE.
BUT WE'RE ALSO, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, NORTH
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POINT WE ALL KNOW IS, IS RIGHT IN RIGHT OUT.BUT, UM, THE PRIMARY ENTRANCE OF COURSE IS WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY.
AND I'VE COME IN AND OUTTA THIS PROPERTY A LOT, AND WHEN I GO TO THE SOUTH END, BACK TO THE SOUTH END, I COME DOWN SPANISH WELLS CROSS ISLAND.
IF YOU ARE AT THE SCHOOL AND YOU CAME DOWN WILBORN, UM, YOU'RE NOT GONNA TURN INTO GUMTREE, YOU'RE GONNA COME
BUT THOSE THAT ARE GOING BUSINESS 2 78 ARE GONNA GO TO GUMTREE.
THERE WOULD BE, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE ALREADY HEADED WEST, IT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO TURN ONTO GUM TRAY.
JUST A THOUGHT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE, UM, RENOVATIONS AND THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING IN THE CORRIDOR.
HER I'D, I'D LOVE TO SEE A, SOME KIND OF CONCEPTUAL ACROSS JARVIS, JARVIS CREEK INTO SPANISH WELLS INTERSECTION.
I THINK IT'D BE VERY, VERY BENEFICIAL.
THE, THE WHOLE THOUGHT PROCESS AS WE WERE SEEKING THE SAFE CONNECTIVITY TO THE SCHOOL CAMPUS IS BEING ABLE TO WALK AND GET TO THE SCHOOL SAFELY.
THAT WELL, THAT'S NOT GONNA, THAT'S NOT, I'M TALKING ABOUT, I'M TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT WALKING TRAFFIC.
SEE, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SO I'M NOT SURE, UM, HOW MUCH OF WHAT ARE IN MY NOTES ARE FOR YOU OR FOR MISSY, SO, UM, I'LL WAIT TILL THE END AND WHOEVER WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER THEM, THAT'D BE GREAT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
WELL, UH, BEN OBVIOUSLY COVERED ALL OF THE EXCITING STUFF.
UM, AND I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE, UH, TEXT AMENDMENT COMPONENT, UH, THAT IS BEFORE YOU TODAY.
UM, IT IS, UH, AGAIN, AN AMENDMENT THAT, UM, IS PART OF OUR GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, OF WHICH WE ARE LOOKING AT AMENDMENTS TO OUR LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE IN TWO PARTS, BOTH THE PRIORITY AMENDMENTS AND THE FULL CODE OVERHAUL.
UM, AS, UH, HAS BEEN INDICATED, UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED THIS AND IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THIS ZONING MAP AMENDMENT.
UM, AND WE DID, UH, TALK TO COUNCIL BACK IN SEPTEMBER, UH, REGARDING THIS TEXT AMENDMENT PROPOSAL, UM, TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THE ARM 12 DISTRICT, UM, TO ASSIST WITH THE ENTITLEMENT OF THE NORTH POINT PROJECT.
UM, WHEN WE SPOKE WITH COUNCIL BACK IN SEPTEMBER, IT WAS DISCUSSED THAT, UM, WE WOULD LOOK AT ALLOWING WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE R 12 DISTRICT ALLOWING UP TO A 25% DENSITY BONUS OR UP TO 15 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE, UM, ALLOWING AN IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE INCREASE.
UM, THEN IT WAS DISCUSSED AT UP TO 50% AT THAT WORKSHOP.
WHAT'S BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A, IS AN INCREASE TO 45%, UM, REQUIRE THAT LOCATION TO BE ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL, UM, AND TO REQUIRE A MINIMUM LOT SIZE OF FIVE ACRES.
UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, WAS INTRODUCED TO THIS TAX AMENDMENT BACK IN JANUARY.
UM, THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION ON WHICH WE PROVIDED AT THE PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH WAS HELD IN MARCH.
UM, THEY ASKED THAT WE CLARIFY, UH, SHORT TERM RENTALS, UM, AS WELL IF THEY'RE ALLOWED IN THE WORKFORCE HOUSING, UH, PROGRAM.
UM, THEY ALSO ASKED US TO FURTHER ANALYZE THE IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE INCREASE, UM, AS WELL AS A MAP OF, UH, WHERE THIS TEXT AMENDMENT WAS PROPOSED AND WHAT PROPERTIES IT COULD BE APPLIED TO, WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THE STAFF REPORT.
UM, AGAIN, UH, BEN PROVIDED A VERY, UM, THOROUGH SUMMARY OF THE WHY.
UH, WE'RE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT AND THE AMENDMENT THAT IS BEHIND IT.
BOTH OF BOTH THE TEXT AMENDMENT AND THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT ARE THE COMPLEMENTARY AMENDMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO ENABLE THAT PROP, THAT PROJECT TO OCCUR.
UM, SO JUST THINK ABOUT THESE TWO, UH, AGENDA ITEMS AS A COMPLIMENTARY OF EACH OTHER.
UM, AND WE ARE FIRST OF COURSE TALKING ABOUT THIS TEXT AMENDMENT COMPONENT.
UM, QUITE SIMPLY, IT IS AN AMENDMENT TO OUR WORKFORCE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM TO ADD RM 12 AS AN ELIGIBLE DISTRICT WHERE A DENSITY BONUS, UH, IS, IS OFFERED FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING RIGHT NOW.
OUR, UM, WORKFORCE HOUSING, WE ALLOW IT BOTH BY COMMERCIAL CONVERSION
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IN OUR COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS, AND WE ALLOW A DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM IN OUR ARMED FOUR DISTRICT WITH CONDITIONS.UM, THIS AMENDMENT ALSO ALLOWS, ITS PROPOSED TO ALLOW WORKFORCE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS IN THE ARM 12 DISTRICT WITH CONDITIONS, UM, AGAIN, AS DIRECTED BY COUNSEL AT THAT WORKSHOP.
THOSE CONDITIONS ARE THAT THE PROPERTY BE AT LEAST FIVE ACRES IN SIZE AND LOCATED ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL.
UM, MAJOR ARTERIALS ARE CROSS ISLAND PARKWAY, PALM MEADOW, BAY ROAD, POPE AVENUE, AND WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, AND I'LL JUST GO ON AHEAD HERE, UM, WE DID PROVIDE IN THE STAFF REPORT A SUMMARY OF ALL OF, UH, THESE AMENDMENTS.
BUT THE OTHER COMPONENT WITHIN THIS TEXT AMENDMENT THAT BEN COVERED AS WELL, IS THAT IT PROPOSES WITH THAT DENSITY BONUS THAT THERE'S AN ALLOWANCE TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE TO 45%, UM, FROM 35%.
UM, THERE'S A TABLE WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT THAT SUMMARIZES THE AMENDMENT.
UM, AGAIN, IT ADDS WORKFORCE HOUSING TO THE ARM 12 DISTRICT WITH CONDITIONS.
UM, IT HAS THOSE CRITERIA, THE, THOSE USE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS THAT IT BE FIVE ACRES, THAT IT IS LOCATED ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL AS DEFINED BY THE CODE.
UM, AND AGAIN, THAT, THAT DENSITY BONUS IS UP TO 50% OF, IF AT LEAST 50% OF ALL UNITS, THEN A DENSITY ARE, ARE CONSIDERED WORKFORCE HOUSING, THEN A DENSITY BONUS OF UP TO 25% IS ALLOWED, AND THAT THE MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE, UH, COULD BE UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 45%.
SO, UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION ASKED US TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE RESEARCH ON THE IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE REQUIREMENT, UM, THAT IS PROPOSED IN THIS TEXT AMENDMENT.
WE LOOKED AT SOME COMPARATIVE RESEARCH OF OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, UM, THAT INCLUDED CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, BUFORD COUNTY, THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, KIOWA, GEORGETOWN, AND SURFSIDE BEACH.
AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT, UM, UH, MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE FOR, UM, THEIR R 12 OR EQUIVALENT TYPE ZONING.
SO THEIR MULTIFAMILY, UM, DEVELOPMENT TYPE.
AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT IT RANGES BETWEEN AN IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE MAXIMUM OF BETWEEN 50 AND 80%.
AND THERE WERE OTHER, UH, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPMENT FORM CRITERIA THAT DIFFERED IN ALL OF THAT.
UH, BOTH THE, UM, HEIGHT RANGES AND THE DENSITIES RANGES WERE DIFFERENT IN THOSE COMMUNITIES.
SO IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON.
UM, WE ALSO LOOKED AT, UM, OUR TOWN OF HILTON HEAD, UH, REQUIREMENTS AS WELL.
AND IN OUR CODE, WE DO HAVE A RANGE OF IMPERVIOUS COVERAGES THAT RANGE BETWEEN 35 AND 65% OF IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE REQUIREMENTS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, AND I WANTED TO NOTE TOO IN THIS CHART, UM, THAT, THAT WE DO HAVE, UM, OUR KLINKY RESORT DISTRICT, MITCHELLVILLE, DISTRICT SEA, PINE CIRCLE, STONY, AND WMU DISTRICTS, THEY ALL ALLOW OVER 10 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE AND HAVE BETWEEN 50 AND 60% OF IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE ALLOWANCES.
SO OUR HIGHER DENSITY ZONING DISTRICTS RESIDENTIAL DENSITY ZONING DISTRICTS DO ALLOW FOR HIGHER IMPERVIOUS COVERAGES GENERALLY IN OUR CURRENT CODE.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT, UM, SOME OTHER COMPARATIVE RESEARCH AND LOOKED AT, UM, SOME BEST IN CLASS REQUIREMENTS.
UM, WE LOOKED ALSO AT COASTAL COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE DEVELOPMENT DENSITIES BETWEEN 12 AND 16, UH, DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE, AND FOUND AGAIN THERE THAT THEY'RE TYPICALLY BETWEEN 50 AND 80%, UH, IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE.
AND THEN WE ALSO NOTED THAT, UM, THE SOUTH CAROLINA SEA GRANT CONSORTIUM NOTES THAT IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE IS A STRATEGY FOR LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT DESIGN.
AND, UM, IN THOSE BEST PRACTICES, THEY TYPICALLY SEE, UM, IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE IS BETWEEN 40 AND 50%.
UM, AND THOSE THAT, THAT FALLS WITHIN THE RANGE OF WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED.
ADDITIONALLY, UM, THIS AMENDMENT, UH, DOES NOT JUST APPLY TO THE NORTH POINT SITE.
IT DOES APPLY TO THREE POTENTIAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE ZONED RM 12 OR WITH, UM, THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT THAT FOLLOWS WHERE THE NORTH POINT SITE WOULD BE ZONED R 12.
UM, AND SO IT IS, IT COULD APPLY TO, YOU KNOW, MEETING THOSE CRITERIA OF AT LEAST A MINIMUM OF FIVE ACRES AND ON A MAJOR ARTERIAL TO THE NORTH POINT SITE TO PALMETTO BAY VILLAS AND THE OAKS.
UM, WE DID PROVIDE A, UH, A SUMMARY TABLE OF THOSE OTHER TWO DEVELOPMENTS THAT, UM, THAT COULD HAVE ADDITIONAL ENTITLEMENTS AS A RESULT OF THIS AMENDMENT.
UM, PALMETTO BAY VILLAS IS SUMMARIZED, UH, FIRST, IT IS CURRENTLY A 5.5 ACRE SITE.
IT IS DEVELOPED AT 11 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
IT HAS 1660, EXCUSE ME, UNITS.
ITS CURRENT ENTITLEMENT IS UP TO 66.
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WERE TO REDEVELOP, UH, EVENTUALLY, UH, WITH, WITH THIS WORKFORCE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS, THEY COULD BE UP TO 82 DWELLING UNITS.UM, THEY HAVE APPROXIMATELY, UM, UH, 45% IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE AND 35 FEET IN HEIGHT.
UH, THE OAKS IS ANOTHER SITE THAT, UM, THAT COULD BE, UM, HAVE ADDITIONAL ENTITLEMENTS AS A RESULT OF THIS TEXT AMENDMENT.
IT IS DEVELOPED AT 11 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
IT COULD HAVE AN ENTITLED DENSITY OF 123, OR I'M SORRY, IT HAS AN ENTITLED DENSITY OF 123.
IT COULD HAVE AN ENTITLED DENSITY OF 154 AS A RESULT OF THIS POTENTIAL AMENDMENT.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT, UM, ANY NONCONFORMITIES THAT COULD BE CREATED.
UM, THIS WOULD APPLY ONLY TO NEW DEVELOPMENTS, SO IT WOULD NOT CREATE ANY, UH, NONCONFORMITIES AND WITH ALL TEXT AMENDMENTS.
UM, THERE IS TEXT AMENDMENT REVIEW CRITERIA, UH, THAT'S REQUIRED WHEN, UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND TOWN COUNCIL ARE REVIEWING, UH, A TEXT AMENDMENT.
UM, AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT IT IS, IT DOES MEET ALL OF THE REQUIRED CRITERIA, UM, THAT IT SUPPORTS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HOUSING GOALS WITHIN OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
IT RESPONDS TO THE CHANGING CONDITIONS BY CALIBRATING DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS WITH STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.
IT ADDRESSES A DEMONSTRATED HOUSING NEED.
IT UPHOLDS THE INTENT OF ZONING REGULATIONS WHILE ALLOWING REASONABLE BUT LIMITED INCREASES IN DENSITY AND IMPERVIOUS AREA WITHIN THE TOWN WHILE ACHIEVING TOWN GOALS.
UM, IT ENSURES HIGHER DENSITY WORKFORCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ARMED 12 ARE LOCATED IN APPROPRIATE LOCATIONS ALONG MAJOR ARTERIALS AND ON PROPERTIES LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE RESIDENTIAL GROWTH AND IT CONSIDERS BEST PRACTICES IN COASTAL COMMUNITIES IN THE IMPACT OF RESIDENTIAL DENSITY INCREASES.
WITH THAT, UM, IT IS AGAIN, THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION THAT TOWN COUNCIL RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THIS, UH, AMENDMENT.
AND, UH, I WILL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE ON THE TEXT AMENDMENT PORTION THAT'S BEFORE YOU RIGHT NOW.
AND I THINK WE NEED A, DO WE NEED A MOTION TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THIS? DO WE NEED A MOTION TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL? YES.
WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION SECOND ALL? WELL GOTTA GO TO A PUBLIC COMMENT.
I'M TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF MYSELF.
UM, KATIE, MS. BECKER? MS. BECKER, WAS THERE A MOTION? YES, THERE WAS.
STEVE ALFRED MADE, MADE THE MOTION AND THE SECOND WAS MADE BY STEVE DESMO.
UH, KATIE HENDERSON, HILTON HEAD PLANTATION.
MR. DESIMONE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING UP THE TRAFFIC ON GUMTREE BECAUSE, UM, ON AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON MARCH THE 19TH, SEVERAL OF US GOT UP AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS THAT ROAD IS RIGHT NOW, AND, UM, WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE, UH, WHEN YOU DUMP OUT, UH, DEVELOPMENT THIS SIZE MOSTLY FOR OUR CHILDREN.
IT'S A CRAZY PLACE IF YOU DON'T LIVE THERE, YOU DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS, AND SAYING, WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT IT, RATHER THAN ANSWERING US A MONTH LATER, SIX WEEKS LATER, THAT NEEDS TO BE AN ANSWER BEFORE YOU GUYS VOTE YES FOR THIS.
ASHLEY PHILLIPS, UH, INDIGO RUN.
UM, I THINK THE DEVELOPMENT LOOKS WONDERFUL.
UM, MY ONLY CONCERN IS, UM, NOT ONLY TRAFFIC ON GUMTREE, UM, WHEN, WHEN YOU LOOK, IF, IF YOU'RE GOING OUT BESIDE THE, UM, POST OFFICE, YOU'VE GOTTA TURN LEFT AND THEN RIGHT TO GET INTO THE SCHOOL.
AND THAT PLACE IS A, IS A ZOO THERE.
IT'S VERY DANGEROUS EVEN NOW BEFORE THIS DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND THE OTHER QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE PROPOSING A ROAD GOING IN FRONT OF THE POST OFFICE AS PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO THE POST OFFICE.
UM, SO I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT, HOW WELL THAT'S GONNA WORK.
UM, AND THEN IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND THE SIDE AND THEN GET TO THAT BACK ROAD AGAIN.
I'M, I'M CERTAINLY NOT AN ENGINEER, BUT JUST AS A PERSON DRIVING, I KNOW GOING INTO THE POST OFFICE NOW, YOU HAVE TO KIND OF MANEUVER AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND IT'S TIGHT IN THERE UNLESS THE WHOLE THING'S GONNA BE RECONFIGURED.
UM, BUT THAT WOULD BE MY ONLY TWO COMMENTS.
UH, GUMTREE LOOKS VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DANGEROUS FOR KIDS.
THERE'S NO WAY I WOULD WALK ACROSS THAT STREET, MUCH LESS A CHILD WALKING ACROSS THAT STREET AND, UH, JUST FIGURING OUT TRAFFIC
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AROUND THERE.BUT OTHERWISE, I, I THINK IT LOOKS LIKE A GREAT PROJECT, SO THANK YOU.
WERE THERE ANY, UM, COMMENTS FROM THE PORTAL, MR. WILLIAMS? NO.
THAT WAS A GREAT QUESTION ABOUT THE, UM, POST OFFICE.
CAN WE TAKE JUST A SECOND TO, TO ADDRESS THAT? YEAH, MY PLEASURE.
UM, HAVING SPENT A LOT OF TIME, CINDY, CAN YOU HELP ME PULL UP THE SLIDE DECK? GOT IT RIGHT HERE.
UM, IT'S, THE EXISTING PARKING CONFIGURATION IS, WAS NOT VERY WELL DONE, IN MY OPINION.
IT DOESN'T CIRCULATE WELL, I MENTIONED THAT IT DOESN'T DRAIN WELL.
UH, THIS IS ENVISIONING RECONFIGURING THE EXISTING PARKING LOT, SO THIS WILL FUNCTION SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER, UH, POST RECONSTRUCTION THAN IT DOES TODAY.
RIGHT HERE, IF YOU CAN SEE MY CURSOR, UH, THIS IS THE EXISTING PARKING LOT RUNS THROUGH ABOUT THIS AREA.
SO WE ARE RECONFIGURING IT WITH THE, UH, STANDARD 18 24, 18 60 FOOT LAYOUT.
DOES THAT, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MADAM CHAIR? I THINK THE QUESTION ALSO HAS TO DO SO HOW, SO THE, THE PASS THROUGH THE ROAD FROM GUMTREE OVER INTO NORTH POINT THAT, UM, HAPPENS BEFORE, IT'S, IT'S BEFORE YOU GET TO THE PARKING FOR THE POST OFFICE.
AND I THINK THE QUESTION JUST HAS A LOT TO DO WITH THE TRAFFIC COMING INTO, UNLESS I'VE GOTTEN IT WRONG, COMING INTO OFF OF 2 78 COMING IN TO USE THE POST OFFICE FACILITY AND THE CROSS TRAFFIC AT THAT POINT.
SO THE, THOSE COMING FROM GUMTREE GOING INTO NORTH POINT AND THE CONFLICT BETWEEN POTENTIAL ACCESS FROM WILLIAM HILTON FOR PEOPLE WHO WANNA GO INTO YOU JUST USED THE POST OFFICE, WILL THAT CREATE A CONFLICT? DID THAT MAKE SENSE? DID I SAY THAT? IF, IF I'M NOT ANSWERING THIS CORRECTLY, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP ME.
UM, GO BACK TO THE, GO BACK TO, TO THE, UH, THERE, RIGHT THERE.
I THINK WHAT SHE'S WANTING TO KNOW IS WHEN YOU'RE LEAVING THE ISLAND AND YOU'RE TURNING INTO THE POST OFFICE YES.
AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE INTERFERENCE FROM PEOPLE COMING OUT OF NORTH POINT, HEADED TOWARDS MARSH POINT.
HOW DO YOU HANDLE THAT? I MEAN, IT'S HANDLED WITH A YEAH, WE, WITH A STOP SIGN, BUT YEAH.
WE, WE DISCUSSED THIS AT LENGTH WITH THE, UH, US POSTAL SERVICE AND THE, THE CROSS TRAFFIC WILL HAVE TO STOP.
RIGHT? THE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT IS INTO THE POST OFFICE SITE WITH STOP SIGNS ON EITHER SIDE OF, OF THIS ACCESS ROOM.
THIS, THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT ACQUIRED YET, CORRECT? THIS ACCESS? NO.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, NO, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY TOWN COUNCIL.
AND THIS IS NOT SO THAT, I MEAN, THERE'S, BUT THERE IS A FIGURE ALREADY THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN GENERATED, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
THAT'S WHY I WOULD REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO EXAMINE A LOW PROFILE TWO-LANE BRIDGE ON THE SPANISH WELLS.
I THINK IT WOULD BE, I DON'T THINK IT'S AS MOST AS EXPENSIVE AS YOU WOULD IMAGINE.
AND, AND I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA GET TOO OUTSIDE THE, OF THE SCOPE OF THE, THE ZMA, BUT I YEAH, I, I UNDERSTAND.
BUT YOU KNOW, THESE CONCERNS, WHICH I DON'T KNOW THAT ARE THAT MUCH OF A CONCERN IS HANDLED WITH A STOP.
BUT THEN YOU WOULD BE, THEN YOU WOULD BE WORKING MOSTLY WITH CHILDREN WALKING TO SCHOOL AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE THROUGH TRAFFIC, THROUGH THE MAIN POST OFFICE AND ADDING DENSITY ONTO DENSITY TRAFFIC ONTO GUMTREE ROAD AS MUCH AS, AS YOU WOULD.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR THAT WAS VETTED OUT, BUT IT JUST COMES FROM THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE BEING ASKED BY PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE.
AND, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED.
UM, THAT'S WHY WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE COUNTY.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE TIME, BUT WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE COUNTY ON A, UH, JOINT CIP PROJECT.
WE, YOU KNOW, THIS, I CAN, I MEAN, I PERSONALLY, I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE ADDING, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN INTO THAT INTER INTERSECTION TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET WITHOUT IT
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BEING AN ELEVATED CROSSWALK.I COULD, I JUST THAT, I MEAN, I GO THROUGH THERE EVERY MORNING.
UM, AND EVEN LIKE THIS ARROW IS, IS VERY CONCEPTUAL DRAWN, BUT RIGHT.
A PATHWAY TO GET, SO A SAFE PATHWAY WHERE WE CAN GET FOLKS OVER, I MEAN, WE WOULD'VE BEEN 100% SAFELY SECURE THE CHILDREN MM-HMM
NOW THAT'S NUMBER ONE FOR SURE.
ONE MISHAP BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IS, IS ONE TOO MANY.
SO WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT ALL THAT.
AND, AND THE PROPERTY IS IN SUCH A GREAT LOCATION BEING WITHIN A A MILE OF THE SCHOOL CAMPUS MM-HMM
YOU HAVE TO CROSS THAT THOROUGH FAIR.
I THINK THAT'S THAT COMMENT AND THAT, UM, POINT REALLY NEEDS TO STAY AT THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYONE'S MIND MOVING FORWARD IS BECAUSE THE ANTICIPATION IS THAT THE CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE CROSSING THERE TO WHETHER THEY'RE GOING TO SCHOOL OR GOING TO THE REC CENTER.
UM, AND THAT SAFE CROSS IS GOTTA BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT WE LOOK AT THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROJECT BECAUSE WE'RE ENCOURAGING THEM TO GO THERE, UM, AND TO USE IT.
UM, STEVE, DID YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? OKAY, I DO.
UM, MS. A WITH REGARD TO, UM, RM 12, I, I HEAR THAT THE REQUIREMENT IS THAT IT'S LOCATED ON A MAJOR ARTILLERY AND IT IS REQUIRED THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE OF FIVE ACRES.
WHAT PART IN THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED TO OUR CURRENT RM 12 AREAS THAT, UM, COULD BE SUBJECT TO THIS AMENDMENT? MY QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH, HAS THE TOWN LOOKED AT, UM, WHERE THERE'S AVAILABLE LAND AND ACCUMULATION OF LAND THAT COULD THEN BE REZONED, FOR INSTANCE? I MEAN, IT'S NICE TO THINK RM 12 IS ALWAYS RM 12 AND RM WHATEVER IS ALWAYS WHATEVER THEY ARE.
BUT, UM, HERE WE ARE TODAY LOOKING TO CHANGE IN THIS PARTICULAR PARCEL, I THINK HAS CHANGED A COUPLE TIMES.
IT WAS LIKE INDU THAT INDUSTRIAL OR SOMETHING AT SOME POINT TOO.
SO HAVE WE LOOKED AT THOSE PARCELS OF LAND TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THEM AS WELL? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IDENTIFYING WITHIN OUR TOWN OWNED PROPERTY INVENTORY, OTHER POSSIBLE REZONES TO 12.
WELL, ANY LAND WHERE IT COULD BE LAND COULD BE REZONED TO ARM 12 AND POTENTIALLY WORKFORCE HOUSING.
WELL, UM, THERE'S TWO PARTS TO THAT.
UM, ONE IS THAT WE KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING COMPREHENSIVELY AT OUR WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM IN THE FULL LMO OVERHAUL MM-HMM
AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR ZONING DISTRICTS ISLAND WIDE FOR COMPATIBILITY WITH A RANGE OF USES, WORKFORCE HOUSING BEING ONE OF THOSE.
AND SO IT WILL, RIGHT NOW IN OUR PRIORITY AMENDMENT SET, WHAT WAS WE WERE TASKED WITH WAS WHAT WAS IN FRONT OF US AND WHAT BEN HAS HIGHLIGHTED FOR US.
BUT YES, WE WILL BE DOING MORE ANALYSIS THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE CORRECT ZONING DISTRICT DESIGNATIONS AND USE TYPES CLASSIFIED FOR ALL OF THE PROPERTIES ISLAND WIDE.
UM, AND THROUGH THAT COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT, WE WILL, WE WILL LOOK INTO THAT FURTHER.
AND I KNOW IT'S BEEN KIND OF DIFFICULT FOR Y'ALL TO TRY TO TEASE OUT SOME OF THESE MORE URGENT MATTERS VERSUS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING AT COMPREHENSIVELY.
I GUESS MY QUESTION HAS TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, WHAT LAND IS AVAILABLE, UM, THAT COULD BE SUBJECT TO REZONING AND AND SUCH, UM, SINCE WE'VE TAKEN THE TIME TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THERE'S ONLY TWO CURRENT RM 12 AREAS THAT WOULD APPLY PALMETTO BAY AND, AND THE OAKS.
UM, SO JUST A QUESTION WITH REGARD TO ALL OF THAT AND THIS AMENDMENT, THIS ZONE, BECAUSE IT'S, UM, BY RIGHT.
WITH SOME CONDITIONS YOU WOULD, UM, YOU WOULDN'T NECESSARILY IN ANY RM 12 NEIGHBORHOOD BE, UM, THIS WOULDN'T BE AN OPEN OPPORTUNITY.
IT'S ONLY SPECIFICALLY IF YOU MEET THE PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AND YOU OPT TO USE, UM, A WORKFORCE HOUSING DESIGNATION, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT, YES.
UM, AND THE MAJOR ARTILLERY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY AND PALMETTO BAY ROAD AND, UH, SEA PINES, UH, I'M SORRY, IT'S CROSS ISLAND, PALMETTO BAY, POPE AVENUE, AND WILLIAM HILTON PARKWAY.
AND, UM, IN ONE SECTION, ON PAGE THREE, UM, OF EIGHT SAYS, UM, SOMETHING ABOUT INCENTIVES.
A PART OF THIS EFFORT, THE TOWN INTENDS TO REZONE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND CONCURRENTLY
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AMEND THE LMO.THE LMO WILL INCLUDE INCENTIVES FOR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF WORKFORCE HOUSING UNITS.
THE INCENTIVES ARE SPECIFICALLY THE DENSITY AND IT'S JUST THE DENSITY BONUS AND THE 45% IMPERVIOUS.
JUST GIMME A SECOND TO MAKE SURE I DIDN'T ALL RIGHT.
AND THE REASON I GUESS I BRING UP, I JUST, UM, THAT LOOK AT WHAT ALSO MIGHT BE AVAILABLE, WHAT LAND COULD BE COMBINED TO MAKE UP A MINIMUM OF FIVE ACRES IS BECAUSE, BECAUSE WHEN WE DO THAT IN THIS, THIS PARTICULAR CASE, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO ME IT REALLY APPLIES, BUT I KNOW THAT IN OTHER SITUATIONS WE ARE MISSING UTILIZING AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE ZONING MAP.
UM, REGULATION, THE PURPOSE AND INTENT SEEMS TO BE BYPASSED AT EVERY POINT.
AND, UM, WE NEED TO, AS EVERYONE KNOWS WHO TALKS TO ME ABOUT THIS, GET BACK TO BEING THE FIRST PRIORITY THAT WE READ IS THE PURPOSE AND INTENT.
AND ON PAGE EIGHT OF EIGHT, LETTER F SAYS IT WOULD NOT, UH, RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
UM, AND IT GOES ON TO TALK, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING THAT.
AND IT ALSO ADDRESSING, UM, ON THAT SAME PAGE, UPHOLD UPHOLDS THE INTENT OF ZONING REGULATIONS BY ALLOWING REASONABLE BUT LIMITED INCREASES.
AND SO I DON'T WANNA LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT EVERYONE HAS AS THINGS CHANGE.
I DON'T WANNA LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO AND KNOW A PARTICULAR AREA, UM, TO BE, AND TO ME THAT ALL RELATES BACK TO PURPOSE AND INTENT OF, UM, ANY OF OUR ORDINANCES.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I SAID THAT OUT LOUD AND ON THE RECORD, UM, BECAUSE IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT'S CREPT UP AS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF EVERY CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING WHERE THINGS ARE NOT GOING RIGHT.
THERE ARE NO OTHER FURTHER QUESTIONS.
UM, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.
ALL IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? THANK YOU.
SO THE NEXT ITEM, NEXT ONE IS THE ZMA
[8.c. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend the Official Zoning Map with Respect to the 16 Parcels Located on Northpoint Circle to Rezone the Parcels from the Parks and Recreation (PR) District to the Moderate to High Density Residential (RM-12) District, and to Provide for Severability and an Effective Date. - Missy Luick, Director of Planning]
IS, UM, CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD TO AMEND THE OFFICIALS ZONING MAP WITH RESPECT TO PARCEL 16 PARCELS LOCATED ON NORTH POINT CIRCLE TO REZONE AND PAR THE PARCELS FROM PARKS AND RECREATION DISTRICT TO MODERATE AND TO HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL RM 12 DISTRICT AND TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERAL VALIDITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE.AND ONCE AGAIN, MS. LUECK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, OF COURSE, BEN PROVIDED A SUMMARY ON THE PROJECT.
UH, THE REQUEST HERE IS TO REZONE 16 PARCELS THAT ARE KNOWN AS NORTH POINT, UH, FOR THE NORTH POINT PROJECT FROM PARKS AND RECREATION TO ARM 12.
UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS REQUEST ON MARCH 19TH.
AND AFTER CONSIDERATION OF THE REVIEW CRITERIA UNANIMOUSLY, UH, RECOMMENDED APPROVAL TO TOWN COUNCIL.
UM, WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED, UM, THE BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT AND WHAT BROUGHT US HERE TODAY.
UM, AND SO THE ANALYSIS THAT WE INCLUDED WAS, UH, PART OF A 12 PAGE STAFF REPORT THAT, UM, DEMONSTRATES IN GREAT DETAIL ALL OF THE REVIEW CRITERIA THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR, UH, A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT AND HOW, UH, THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT REQUEST MEETS ALL OF THOSE FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE SUPPORTED.
UM, THERE ARE, UH, REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE NOTED HERE, UM, THAT OUTLINES THOSE CRITERIA.
UM, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED WITHIN THAT STAFF REPORT, UM, THAT WE BELIEVE, UH, THAT THIS APPLICATION IS CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE OUTLINED IN LMO SECTION 16 2 1 0 3 C3, WHICH ARE THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT REVIEW STANDARDS.
UM, AND I'LL STATE THAT REZONING THE PROPERTY FROM PR TO ARM 12 IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN REZONING.
THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY FROM PARKS AND RECREATION TO ARM 12 WILL ALLOW USES THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH USES ALLOWED ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTY THAT REZONING THE PROPERTY FROM PARKS AND RECREATION TO ARM 12 WILL ADDRESS A DEMONSTRATED COMMUNITY NEED REZONING.
THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY IS CONSISTENT WITH THE TOWN'S OVERALL ZONING PLANS AND PROGRAM REZONING.
THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY WILL NOT CREATE AN
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INAPPROPRIATELY ISOLATED ZONING DISTRICT UNRELATED TO SURROUNDING PROP PROPERTIES AND ZONING DISTRICTS.REZONING THE PROPERTY WILL ALLOW A VIABLE ECONOMIC USE ON THE PROPERTY.
THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY IS SERVED BY AVAILABLE ADEQUATE AND SUITABLE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND UTILITIES.
UM, REZONING THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY IS APPROPRIATE FOR CONDITIONS EXISTING IN THE AREA, REZONING THE PROPERTY IS APPROPRIATE DUE TO CHANGE AND CHANGING CONDITIONS IN THE TOWN AND IN THE AREA OF THE NORTH POINT PROPERTY RELATED TO THE NEED FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND REZONING.
THE PROPERTY FROM PARKS AND RECREATION TO ARM 12 IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
AND DO WE HAVE A MOTION APPROVAL? SECOND.
ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? SEEING NONE.
WAS THERE ANYTHING, CINDY, THAT WAS SUBMITTED THROUGH THE PORTAL? MR. WILLIAMS, CHE CHESTER, MR. WILLIAMS PUBLIC COMMENT? NO.
AND THEN WE'LL BRING IT BACK UP TO THE DAAS FOR CONVERSATION.
MR. NOTHING, MR. DEBAR, NOTHING.
NO, I HEAR THE, I HEAR THE PROCESS AND I'M GONNA, MY COMMENT IS GONNA ADDRESS WHERE WE'RE AT AS A TOWN.
THIS IS PARKS AND RECREATION, AND IT'S GOING TO MEAN, UM, THAT WE'RE REMOVING TREES FOR IN FAVOR OF BUILDINGS TO PROVIDE HOUSING, WHICH I UNDERSTAND.
UM, I JUST HOPE WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT AND START CREATING, UM, A NEED FOR, UM, THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS, UM, AND OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
UH, I THINK ONCE WE DO THAT, WE WILL HAVE LOST ANY REAL PURPOSE OF PROTECTING THE ISLAND.
SO, UM, WHILE I UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE WHEN, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, THE IDEA OF REMOVING PARKS AND RECREATION TO, UM, FOR BUILDING ANYTHING IS JUST, UM, DOESN'T SIT TOO WELL IN MY GUT AND IN MY HEART FOR THE ISLAND.
SO HAVING SAID ALL OF THAT, UM, ALL IN FAVOR, IN A OPPOSED.
AND LAST ONE WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US TODAY IS, UM, CONSIDERATION, CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL, OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION IN A NON-EXCLUSIVE DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENT AGREEMENT FROM BEAUFORT COUNTY FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 55 GARDNER DRIVE.
UM, AND SEAN COLLIN, OUR ASSISTANT TOWN MANAGER, IS BACK.
THAT WAS THE LAST ONE, RIGHT? MR. MAD CHAIR? I THINK THERE WERE TWO.
I THINK THERE'S ONE OR TWO MORE BEFORE WE'RE GETTING TO THIS ITEM, BUT, UM, I'M HAPPY TO HANDLE MY ITEM IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR MINE FIRST, BUT IT WAS, YEAH.
IS THAT A OR, OR WE CAN JUST WAIT.
I DO HAVE, THERE ARE A COUPLE MORE.
I, FOR SOME REASON DO NOT HAVE THE PACKETS IN FRONT OF ME, SO I'M GONNA READ FROM ITEM, PROMPTER ITEM.
SO MISSY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO CONTINUE, SO SORRY, CHERYL, AND SO IT WOULD BE D RIGHT? ARE
[8.d. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code of the Town of Hilton Head Island, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend Chapter 16-5, Development and Design Standards, to add a new Section 16-5-117 Construction Management Standards for the Town of Hilton Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - Missy Luick, Director of Planning]
WE ON DD? CORRECT.CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO AMEND TITLE SIX OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEIGHT ISLAND, THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 16 FIVE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS TO ADD A NEW SECTION 16 5 1 1 7 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEIGHT ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, PROVIDING SEVERAL VALIDITY AND AT THE EFFECT OF DATE.
AND MISSY LU, I APOLOGIZE, UM, FOR STEPPING OVER YOU.
I DO RECALL READING IT, UM, BUT FOR SOME REASON I DON'T HAVE THE PACKET, WHICH THREW ME OFF A LITTLE BIT.
SO, UM, BEFORE YOU YES, IS AN AMENDMENT TO CONSIDER ADDING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS TO THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE.
THE PLANNING COMMISSION HELD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS MATTER ON MARCH 19TH AND ALSO VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO SUPPORT, UH, THIS AMENDMENT MOVING FORWARD TO COUNCIL.
AGAIN, THIS IS ALL PART OF THE LMO AMENDMENTS PLAN.
THAT'S PART OF, UH, STRATEGY NUMBER ONE, THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY.
WE DID MEET WITH, UH, COUNCIL AT A WORKSHOP IN SEPTEMBER TO TALK HIGH LEVEL ABOUT THIS POTENTIAL AMENDMENT REQUIRING A REFUSE DISPOSAL PLAN, PARKING PLAN, SITE MANAGEMENT PLAN, ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN, AND REQUIRE THAT SECURES BE, UM, SITES BE SECURE DURING NAME STORM EVENTS.
UM, AND THIS AMENDMENT, UH, DOES ALL OF THAT, UH, THAT'S BEFORE YOU.
UM, WE RECOGNIZE THAT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS DO HAVE IMPACTS THAT ARE
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FELT BY BOTH, UM, THAT RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY, UM, WHERE, WHERE THAT CONSTRUCTION IS OCCURRING, UH, BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT CONSTRUCTION BRINGS A LOT OF POSITIVE BENEFITS TO OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL.UM, AND SO WE WANTED TO BALANCE THOSE POSITIVE OUTCOMES WITH, UH, CONSTRUCTION AND THE NEED TO MINIMIZE THOSE DISRUPTIONS, UM, BY, UH, PROVIDING THESE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS.
UM, FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ORDINANCE, UH, WE TALK ABOUT TROPICAL CYCLONES AND WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT THEY INCLUDE TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS, TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES THAT ARE DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER.
SO IN, UM, SO THIS, UH, ORDINANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS REFERENCES THE RECENT AMENDMENT THAT WAS MADE TO THE NOISE ORDINANCE IN THE NOISE AND HOURS OF OPERATIONS.
UM, IT ALSO REFERENCES OUR CURRENT PRACTICE FOR STORMWATER DISCHARGE, UM, WHICH MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAT WE UPHELD THROUGH OUR N-P-D-E-S PROCESS, UM, THAT IT PROVIDES, UH, SITE CLEANLINESS AND REFUGE REQUIREMENTS.
IT PROVIDES REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAFFIC AND PARKING AS WELL AS, UH, SITE MANAGEMENT, UM, BOTH AT HOW WE, UH, PROTECT TREES AND, UM, ENSURING THAT THERE'S MINIMAL IMPACT ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
AND THEN AS ALL SECTIONS OF OUR CODE, IT REFERENCES HOW THIS CAN BE ENFORCED, WHICH IS IN CHAPTER 16 EIGHT, WHICH IS HOW WE HANDLE ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE.
UM, THE AMENDMENT IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS ANALYSIS TABLE.
UM, IT REALLY OUTLINES EXACTLY, UH, WHAT I JUST COVERED AT A HIGH LEVEL.
UM, AGAIN, THE NOISE ORDINANCE, UH, IS, IS PROVIDED BY REFERENCE.
UM, IT PROVIDES REFERENCE TO HOW WE HANDLE STORM WATER.
UM, AND THEN AGAIN, THE, UM, THE REFUSE AND SITE CLEANLINESS, UH, PLAN, UH, REQUIRING A REFUSE DISPOSAL PLAN IS A REQUIREMENT, UM, THAT PROVIDES FOR THE DISPOSAL OF ALL TRASH, UM, AS WELL AS SITE CLEARING, CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION, UM, DEBRIS AND WASTE MATERIAL.
UM, THOSE ARE, THAT'S A REQUIREMENT NOW AND THAT THERE IS A, UH, REFUSE DISPOSAL PLAN THAT CONTAINS A CLEANING SCHEDULE, UM, AND THAT A DESIGNATED DISPOSAL AREA IS LABELED ON THEIR EROSION AND SETTLEMENT CONTROL PLAN.
UM, AND, UM, AND THAT THEY HAVE THESE PLANS ON SITE.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT FOR, UM, SITE CLEARING AND DEMOLITION, REFUGE AND DEBRIS, UM, THAT HAS TO BE CONTAINED IN A MANNER THAT PREVENTS CONTAMINATION, UM, TO ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND WETLANDS.
UM, ALSO THAT, UM, IT'S REQUIRED THAT YOUR TRASH AND DEBRIS AND CONSTRUCTION REFUSE, UH, IS STORED, UM, TO PREVENT, UH, SAFETY RISKS OR DANGER.
UM, THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS THAT PROHIBIT LOADING AND UNLOADING AND STORAGE, UM, WITHIN ANY RIGHT OF WAY OR PUBLIC PROPERTY AS WELL.
UM, THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS FOR, UM, THAT THERE, YOUR TRASH AND SITE CLEARING AND CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS BE HAULED AWAY AND DISPOSED OF, UM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS, BUT NO LESS THAN ONE TIME PER WEEK.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO IDENTIFIES THAT MUD, DIRT AND DEBRIS THAT'S DEPOSITED ON, ON A STREET LANE CROSSWALK SIDEWALK, UM, SHALL BE REMOVED ON A REGULAR BASIS, UM, AND AT ALL TIMES IF IT CREATES A NUISANCE.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO, UM, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE REQUIRES THAT SITES BE BROOM CLEANED, UM, EVERY DAY.
IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT HOLDER, UM, TO MEET ALL THESE REQUIREMENTS AND REMOVE THE TRASH AND, AND PROVIDE THE SITE CLEARING, UH, RESPONSIBILITIES.
UM, ADDITIONALLY THERE IS, UM, A REQUIREMENT HERE FOR, UH, THAT SECURE SITE DURING A NAME STORM.
IT IDENTIFIES THAT IT IS THE PERMIT HOLDER'S RESPONSIBILITY WITHIN 24 HOURS OF, UM, EITHER A HURRICANE CENTERED ISSUED CYCLONE WATCH OR WARNING THAT THEY SECURE THEIR SITE, UH, WITHIN THAT TIME PERIOD.
ADDITIONALLY, UM, AS FAR AS TRAFFIC AND PARKING, A CONSTRUCTION PLAN, UH, PARKING PLAN, SHOWING WHERE THEY'RE GONNA PARK VEHICLES, UM, THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY.
UM, AND THOSE VEHICLES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY OR ACCESS EASEMENTS OR PARK PARKED ON OUR PATHWAYS.
UM, A TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN IS A REQUIREMENT ADDITIONALLY THAT'S NOTED IN HERE, UM, FOR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES, UM, AND THAT A PLAN NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE FOR ANY OVERSIZED CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES, UM,
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AS PART OF, UH, THEIR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES, UM, THEIR SITE MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED THAT INCLUDE, UM, A PORTABLE TOILET REQUIREMENT, UM, AND, UH, WHERE IT IS TO BE LOCATED AND, UM, AND HOW OFTEN IT HAS TO BE SERVICED.UM, TREE PROTECTION SHALL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR TREE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS.
WE DO PROTECT TREES DURING CONSTRUCTION AND IT REFERENCES THAT PARTICULAR SECTION.
UM, AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, IF THERE ARE UTILITIES THAT ARE NEEDED OR ONSITE EQUIPMENT THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR CONSTRUCTION, UM, THAT THOSE LOCATIONS ARE SHOWN, UH, AND DEPICTED ON THE PLANS DURING THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS AND LOCATED AS TO HAVE THE LEAST POSSIBLE IMPACT ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
AND THEN THE AMENDMENT, AGAIN REFERENCES THAT ENFORCEMENT, UH, SECTION WITHIN OUR CODE.
UM, AS FAR AS NONCONFORMITIES, THIS APPLIES TO NEW, UH, DEVELOPMENT, UH, AND CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES AND WOULD NOT CREATE ANY NEW CONFORMITIES.
UM, AS WITH ALL TEXT AMENDMENTS, THERE ARE REVIEW STANDARDS AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED HOW THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT MEETS THAT REVIEW CRITERIA AND HAVE BEEN OUTLINED HERE.
UM, OUR PLAN INCLUDES IDEALS OF EXCELLENCE AND OUR PLANNING PRO AND PROCESSES THAT AIM FOR TOWN PLANNING AND PROCESSES TO USE INNOVATION AND LEARNING TO CONFIN CONTINUALLY DEVELOP AND APPLY BEST PRACTICES AND STANDARDS FOR PROCESSES AND PROJECTS.
THIS AMENDMENT DOES THIS BY HELPING TO APPROVE THE WAY A CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES ARE REGULATED IN ORDER TO ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE AND REQUIRES SAFE CONSTRUCTION SITE CONDITIONS AND ENHANCED NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTIONS.
IT ADDRESSES PRESENT DAY CONDITIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ON THE ISLAND.
IT RESPONDS TO CONCERNS VOICED ABOUT IMPROPER CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS.
IT ENSURES DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES ARE CONSISTENT WITH INTENT OF THE LMO AND THE OBJECTIVE TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
IT ENSURES A WELL-MANAGED CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES AND ORDERLY MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF TRASH SITE CLEARING AND CONSTRUCTION, OR DEMOLITION, REF REFUSE AND DEBRIS OR WASTE MATERIAL.
IT ENSURES SAFE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES, UM, EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC, PARKING AND CIRCULATION, AND HIGHER STANDARDS FOR SANITATION TREE PROTECTION AND OVERALL IMPACT MITIGATION.
AND THEREFORE, UM, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
WHAT, WHAT PROMPTED THIS? UM, WE, WE GENERALLY, UM, STAFF AND, UM, I UNDERSTAND TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, OFTEN HERE ARE SOME COMPLAINTS THAT ARE RESULT FROM THE IMPACTS OF BEING IN THE VICINITY OF DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THAT SOME OF THE BURDENS THAT ARE FELT BY THE CONSTRUCTION, UM, ARE FELT BEYOND THE, THE PROPERTY PARCEL BOUNDARIES WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION IS OCCURRING.
AND IT IS TO PUT IN PLACE SOME MITIGATION MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT WE MINIMIZE SOME OF THOSE IMPACTS THAT ARE RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES.
UM, MOST OF THEM ARE ALREADY REGULATIONS, CORRECT? PARDON? MOST OF THESE ARE ALREADY A REGULATION.
UH, THE EROSION CONTROL MEASURES AND OUR TREE REGULATIONS ARE YES.
AND THEN YES, WE JUST AMENDED THE CONSTRUCTION NOISE ACTIVITY WITHIN OUR NOISE AMENDMENT.
HOWEVER, UM, SOME OF THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT, UM, AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SECURED SITE, UM, DURING A NAME STORM EVENT ARE NOT A REQUIREMENT TODAY.
UM, AND, UH, SOME OF THE DETAILED, UM, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, UM, PLANS THAT ARE REQUIRED IN THIS AMENDMENT ARE, ARE NOT CURRENTLY PART OF OUR REGULATIONS.
YEAH, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST BEST PRACTICES AND MOST LIKELY COMMON SENSE.
AND IT'S NOT LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, I CAN BE AGAINST WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR HERE, BUT WHAT BOTHERS ME MORE THAN ANYTHING OR CONTINUE THE HILTON TOWN OF HILTON HEAD KEEPS PUTTING LAYERS ON TOP OF CONTRACTORS AND DEVELOPERS AND, AND PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO DO THINGS TO BETTER THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW, WHICH I'M SURE NONE OF THE STAFF OR MOST OF THE STAFF HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED, IT MAKES IT EXTREME.
THERE'S, THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE THAT I'VE DONE BUSINESS THAT'S HARDER TO DO BUSINESS THAN THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING SIDE OF BUSINESS.
AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
I AGREE WITH THESE, THESE ITEMS, BUT TO PUT TO FEEL LIKE THE APPLICANT, THE HANDCUFFS ARE GETTING TIGHTER.
AND WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING OF, OR IT MAY NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO MOST PEOPLE THAT MAKE, MAKE UP THE RULES, IS THE PRICE GOES UP AND IT BECOMES VERY HA VERY HARD TO DO BUSINESS HERE.
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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE TOWN STRUGGLES WITH IS GETTING QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS TO DO THE TOWN'S BUSINESS.THINK ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE THAT NEEDS QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS AND WHICH IS A WHOLE NOTHER SUBJECT, BUT PUTTING SOME OF THE, BUT PUTTING SOME OF THESE LAYERS IN APPLICATION, IN THE APPLICATION PROCESS.
YOU KNOW, NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SHEET SHOWING WHERE THIS IS GONNA GO.
THAT'S GONNA GO, NOW YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SHOW ME WHERE YOU'RE GONNA PARK ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE.
PEOPLE PARK WHERE THERE'S ROOM.
JUST TELL 'EM THEY CAN'T BE IN THE ROAD.
TELL 'EM THEY CAN'T BE ON THE TREE.
UH, I MEAN MOST OF THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO OCCUR ANYWAY.
AND SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO ENFORCE THEM, YOU'LL, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO ENFORCE THEM.
BUT WHAT IT DOES IS, I THINK IN, IN THE WHOLE CRUX OF THE WHOLE THING IS IT TAKES US BACK TO HOW HARD IT IS TO DO BUSINESS IN THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD.
AND WE SHOULD BE BUSINESS FRIENDLY AND TO, AND TO POINT THAT OUT IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WE'RE POINTING IT OUT AND WE'RE TELLING EVERYBODY, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT TOUGHER ON YOU.
WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT HARDER, BUT COME ANYWAY BECAUSE MOST OF THESE THINGS ARE COMMON SENSE.
MOST OF THESE THINGS ARE BEST PRACTICES AND MOST OF THESE THINGS ARE, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALREADY THERE AND, AND THEY'RE ENFORCEABLE.
UM, UM, HARD TO VOTE AGAINST THESE THINGS FOR THE OBVIOUS REASONS.
THEY'RE THE RIGHT THINGS TO DO TO HANDCUFF THEM WITH PAPERWORK.
MAKING SURE JUST MAKES THINGS WORSE FOR ALL OF US.
AND, UH, BUT THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
ARE YOU, WERE YOU SUGGESTING THEN THAT THIS SHOULDN'T BE AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT, BUT A I I, YEAH, I SEE POLICY.
I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, IT IS SOMETHING THAT, HOW DO YOU NOT VOTE IN FAVOR OF THESE THINGS? 'CAUSE THEY SHOULD BE DONE.
I AGREE 100% THESE THINGS SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF, BUT IT'S, BUT IT'S THE CONNOTATION OF THE HANDCUFFS THAT YOU'RE PUTTING ON AND ANOTHER LAYER OF APP IN THE APPLICATION IN THIS PROCESS THAT'S ALREADY SO DIFFICULT.
YOU KNOW, I'M OBTAINING A DEMO PERMIT RIGHT NOW, AND I'M ONE MONTH INTO IT.
I USED TO COME OVER AND GET A DEMO PERMIT AND WALK OFF THAT AFTERNOON AND GO TEAR A HOUSE DOWN.
IT'S, UM, IT'S DIFFICULT TO DO BUSINESS AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE MAKING IT EASIER TO DO BUSINESS THE CORRECT WAY.
I'M NOT SAYING COME IN AND DO BUSINESS THE WRONG WAY, DO BUSINESS THE CORRECT WAY, BUT WE SHOULD BE MAKING IT EASIER.
AND WE'RE, AND AND WE'RE JUST POINTING OUT LAYERS THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA HAVE TO ADHERE TO.
AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT'S GONNA TURN IT, IT JUST KEEPS PUTTING THAT GATE UP AT THE BRIDGE FOR CONTRACTORS.
THE TOWN NEEDS CONTRACTORS, WE NEED OUR CIP NEEDS CONTRACTORS AND, UM, IT'S THE MESSAGE WE'RE SENDING.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WORRIES ME.
STEVE, ANY COMMENTS ON THIS ONE? OKAY, MS. BECKER.
OH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN? YEAH, THANKS.
FIRST I GUESS I HAVE A QUESTION FOR STAFF.
UM, I'M ASSUMING THAT THESE NEW TOOLS WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO ALL DEVELOPMENT NO MATTER IF IT WAS SINGLE FAMILY.
LIKE THE SIZE DOES NOT MATTER.
UM, I AGREE WITH MR. DESIMONE ON THIS.
OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE HAD SOME BAD ACTORS WHEN AND WHEN IT COMES TO SOME OF THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE HERE ON HILTON HEAD.
UM, AND FOR SMALLER DEVELOPMENT, I'M GONNA USE THAT EXAMPLE.
WHEN YOU'RE STARTING TO ASK SOMEONE TO PRODUCE A PLAN AS TO HOW YOU'RE GOING TO PARK, HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DISPOSE, WHERE THE DUMPSTER DUMPSTER'S GONNA BE, WHERE THE PORTA POLY IS GONNA BE AND ALL THAT STUFF, IS THAT JUST ON THE BACK OF A NAPKIN OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE ASKING A PROFESSIONAL TO PROVIDE? BECAUSE THAT DOES INCREASE THE COST OVER TIME.
UM, SO, UM, AS FAR AS DIRECTION IS CONCERNED, I JUST OFFER TO, TO THE COMMITTEE THAT WE SORT OF THINK THROUGH THIS WHOLE, THIS IDEA OF IT BEING ACTUAL PLAN AND WE JUST FOCUS ON THE EXPECTATION OF WHAT, SO DECIMALS CALLING COMMON SENSE.
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THERE HAS BEEN SOME FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CREEP, UM, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING IN PLACE.BUT I THINK WE, WE, WE MAY BE GOING JUST A LITTLE TOO FAR ON THIS AS I, YOU KNOW, THINK THROUGH IT AND HOW IT'S GONNA BE APPLIED TO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, MY OPINION.
UM, WELL, I THINK THAT WAS A, THAT WAS A GOOD QUESTION IN THERE, UM, WITH REGARD TO, IS THIS A BACK OF THE NET OR IS THIS SOMETHING SOMEONE HAS TO HIRE SOMEONE TO ADD TO AN APPLICATION? AND, UM, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE THE, IN ADDITION OF HIRING SOMEONE TO DETERMINE WHERE YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR DUMPSTER, YOUR PORTA JOHN'S, ET CETERA, UM, BUT THAT IT IS WITHIN REASONABLE COMMON SENSE.
YOU WOULD THINK SOMEONE WOULD BE, SO IT'S, BUT MISSY, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE THE ADDITIONAL HIRE OF SOMEONE TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHERE A CONTRACTOR PUTS HIS, HIS NEEDED, YOU KNOW, DUMPSTERS, ET CETERA.
NO, IT, IT DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT IT BE DRAWN ON BY A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL, BUT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DRAWN ON TO A PLAN AND TURNED IN DURING THE APPLICATION REVIEW PROCESS.
UM, I THINK JUST HEARING FROM THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE, I THINK APPLICABILITY IS A QUESTION.
IF, IF THIS IS NOT GONNA MOVE FORWARD TODAY AND YOU WANTED US TO RETHINK APPLICABILITY, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOUR THOUGHTS ARE THAT THIS SHOULD APPLY TO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS OR ALL DEVELOPMENT AS IT'S DRAFTED CURRENTLY.
UM, I MEAN IT COME ONE COME ALL.
I MEAN, IT SHOULD, EVERYONE SHOULD ADHERE TO THESE RULES.
I, I MEAN, I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT THE EFFECTS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER THE YEARS AND HOW IT'S BUILDING, UM, IS ADVERSELY AFFECTING WHAT WE'RE GETTING ON THIS ISLAND TODAY.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IT HELPS TO DO TO EN ENHANCE, UM, A PROJECT MOVING FORWARD DURING ITS DEVELOPMENT IS THAT IT MAKES EVERYONE AWARE OF WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S SPACE AND TO PLACE A DUMPSTER OR A PORTA JOHN, OR TO HAVE A CLEAN OUT, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE, I'LL SAY IT THE OTHER WAY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE, UM, DEVELOPMENT THAT OVERTAKES A SINGLE FAMILY LOT, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE, UM, IT'S LEFT WITH NO LAND FOR FOLKS TO PARK, CONTRACTORS TO PARK, OR TO PUT THEIR NE NECESSARY, UM, DUMPSTERS.
AND THE REST THAT WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT, AT LEAST THIS HIGHLIGHTS TO THEM, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN.
'CAUSE YOU CAN'T GO IN THERE AND HAVE IT HANGING OUT ON THE STREET OR IMPACTING THE ROADWAYS AND THE, THE TRAFFIC THROUGH THE COMMUNITY.
A HUNDRED PERCENT, YOU'RE RIGHT.
AND IT IS, IT SHOULD BE IN EVERYBODY'S MIND, A BEST PRACTICE TO THINK THESE THINGS THROUGH AND PREPARE FOR THEM.
UM, THIS JUST KIND OF MEMORIALIZES THAT FOR THOSE WHO DON'T, UM, PLEASE MAKE IT OBVIOUS TO ALL OF US WHERE YOU'RE, WHERE YOU'RE PLACING AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO MANAGE YOUR JOB SITE.
AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT'S ABOUT IS MANAGING A JOB SITE.
I MEAN, I WOULD HATE TO SEE THE TOWN TURN SOMEONE DOWN BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GIVE YOU A PLAN WHERE THEY'RE GONNA PUT A DUMPSTER.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF RENOVATION GOING ON, ESPECIALLY IN APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT YOU CAN'T KEEP THAT DUMPSTER ON THE, ON, ON THAT PERSON'S PROPERTY.
SO, AND THERE'S, AND THERE AND THERE ARE HOMES THE SAME WAY.
AND SO THE WAY THE CONTRACTOR HANDLES THAT IS, IS THAT DEVICE SHOWS UP AND THEY LOAD IT FROM THE STREET AND IT LEAVES.
SO IT BREAKS THAT RULE, BUT IT'S KIND OF THE ONLY WAY IT CAN BE DONE SOMETIMES.
SO WHEN THE PERSON FILLS OUT THEIR APPLICATION AND THEY SAY, WELL, THERE'S NO LOCATION FOR, YOU KNOW, SINGLETON BEACH, FOR INSTANCE, YOU KNOW, THOSE HOUSES ARE THIS FAR APART AND THE DRIVEWAY IS THE WHOLE FRONT.
SO WHERE ARE YOU GO, WHERE DO YOU PUT A DUMPSTER? SO YOU DENY THAT PERMIT BECAUSE THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THEM TO DRAW IT ON THE PLAN.
YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS ARE GONNA HAPPEN MM-HMM
AND SO THAT, AND SO THEY'RE USING BEST PRACTICE AND COMMON SENSE TO GET RID OF THE DEBRIS, BUT THERE'S NO NOTHING IN WRITING ABOUT BEST PRACTICE AND COMMON SENSE.
SO, BUT TO PUT THAT IN THERE WOULD, WOULD, AND THAT'S JUST ONE WOULD BE AN ISSUE.
SO I CAN SEE AREAS WHERE THE PEOPLE COULDN'T GET THEIR OR LONG DELAYS IN GETTING THEIR PERMITS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO SOMEHOW LEASE A PIECE OF PROPERTY NEXT OR GET A PERMISSION OR FROM A NEIGHBOR OR SOMETHING JUST TO GET THE ABILITY TO GET RID OF THE DEBRIS.
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UM, AND THAT'S JUST ONE ITEM OF MANY.YOU'VE GOT DELIVERY TRUCKS, YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT HAVE TO RUN ON SIDES OF THE ROAD AND DELIVER THROUGH ONE YARD INTO THE OTHER BECAUSE THERE'S NO ACCESS.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF THIS HAPPENING THAT GETS WORKED OUT IN THE FIELD BECAUSE IT'S JUST COMMON SENSE AND BEST PRACTICE.
SO I THINK WE HAVE, UM, A MOTION THAT'S, YEAH, IT REQUIRES DUMPSTER PART IS IF THEY DO HAVE A DUMPSTER HAS TO BE ON SITE DISPOSAL PLAN, AND THEN CONSTRUCTION
I THINK THAT THE TEXT ACTUALLY ALREADY ENCOMPASSES WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED.
DOES IT? MEANING, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A DUMPSTER, YOU HAVE TO SAY WHERE IT'S GONNA BE.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT C ONE, IT TALKS ABOUT A REFUSE DISPOSAL PLAN THAT TELLS YOU HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET RID OF THE REFUSE AND DISPOSAL.
WELL MEANING IF YOUR PLAN IS, IS THAT YOU HAVE AN AREA WHERE YOU PLACE IT AND THEN YOU BRING THE TRUCK BY AND LOAD IT IN AND TAKE IT OFF, THAT IS A REFUSE DISPOSAL PLAN.
I, I, I MEAN, I AGREE WITH, I MEAN, I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BE WHAT IT SAYS, IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A DUMPSTER, YOU HAVE TO TELL THE TOWN WHERE IT'S GONNA GO.
I WOULD JUST, WELL, THAT'S JUST ONE OF A LOT OF THINGS, BUT I WOULD JUST NOT WANT TO WANT TO SEE IT BE A HANG THAT YOU GOTTA TAKE THREE OR FOUR DAYS TO MAKE PROOF BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN GET TO THE NEXT STEP, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THOSE STEPS IN THERE.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, I GAVE YOU A REFERENCE A MINUTE AGO.
ONE OF THE THINGS THE TOWN DIDN'T INSINUATE IS THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE A RB APPROVAL.
WELL, A RB APPROVAL IS ASKING THINGS THAT THE TOWN'S NOT REQUIRING.
IF YOU HADN'T HAVE SAID YOU HAVE TO HAVE OUR A RB APPROVAL, THEN IT WOULD'VE BEEN MUCH EASIER.
SO, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT SUBJECTS, BUT I HEAR YOU, CURTIS.
OKAY, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
IT, IT WOULD JUST BE THE STAFF THAT WAS EITHER GONNA MAKE IT, THEY CAN MAKE IT HARD ON YOU OR THEY CAN MAKE IT EASY ON YOU, RIGHT? YES.
BUT I MEAN, AS, AS, AS FAR AS IT GOES, THE, I I THINK IT'S HAS MORE FLEXIBILITY IN IT THAN THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION WAS SUGGESTING.
IT'S JUST ANOTHER LAYER THOUGH, RIGHT? YOU GOTTA FILL OUT, YOU GOTTA OUT THE FORM, YOU GOTTA PLAN, WELL STAY, YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT A FORM AND, AND PRODUCE YOUR PLAN.
IT'S JUST ANOTHER LAYER AND YOU KNOW, ON TOP OF ANOTHER DOZEN, THEY'RE ALREADY THERE.
SO, WELL, IF I MAY, THAT IS, THAT IS THE POLICY DISCUSSION.
AS OPPOSED TO DISCUSSION AS TO THE TEXT.
NOW, APPARENTLY I, UM, NEGLECTED TO ASK FOR A MOTION.
SO, UM, IF WE CAN GET A MOTION ON THE CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE.
I THINK I DID READ IT THOUGH, CORRECT CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO A AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE TO AMEND 16 FIVE DEVELOPMENT STANDARD DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS TO ADD A NEW SECTION 16 5 1 1 7.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, PROVIDING SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE I.
AND IF I CAN GET A MOTION AFTER A SECOND, YOUR OWN MOTION.
AND I'M PASSING THE GAVEL SO THAT I CAN SECOND, UM, THE MOTION.
AND NOW ALL IN FAVOR? SO PUBLIC COMMENT COMMENTS? NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
CHAD, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? NO.
WAS THERE ANYTHING THROUGH THE PORTAL? NO, MA'AM.
I JUST, DID YOU VOTE? WE HAVE NOT VOTED ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM, UH, THE DIOCESE? I JUST THINK THIS THING AS WE ARE TODAY IS AN, IS IT'S AN ENFORCEMENT ISSUE.
AND IF SOMEONE'S COMPLAINING, STAFF NEEDS TO GO OUT AND ENFORCE IT, HOW DOES THIS CHANGE THAT? ALL IT DOES IS IT MAKES THEM TURN IN ANOTHER PIECE OF PAPER SAYING WHERE THE DUMPSTER WAS GOING TO BE.
SO WHAT IF WHEN YOU GET THERE, THE DUMPSTERS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE YARD ARE, DO YOU FIND THEM? SO, OR IS THIS REALLY JUST TO SAY, HEY, WE'VE LAID ANOTHER PIECE OF THIS ON YOU TO SATISFY NEIGHBORS THAT
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ARE COMPLAINING AND WE CAN SAY, WELL, THIS IS WHAT WE DID TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM, WHICH IT'S NOT GONNA FIX THE PROBLEM, WE'RE STILL GONNA BE VIOLATIONS.I THINK IT'S MORE THE CONCERN OF THAT'S WHY WE'RE JUST LAYERING ON TOP OF STUFF THAT'S ALREADY EXISTING.
WE ARE ALREADY DOING THESE THINGS DAILY, AND IF THEY COMPLAIN, THEY NEED TO BE ENFORCED.
AND SO THAT SAYS TO ME, IF THE COMPLAINTS ARE GETTING GREATER, THE ENFORCEMENT'S NOT HAPPENING.
IF THEY DID, IF IT WAS YEAH, AND IT WAS STIFF AND IT WAS TOUGH, THESE THINGS WOULDN'T HAPPEN AND THIS WOULDN'T BE HERE.
SO, SO THE WAY I READ IT, UM, STEVE, IS THAT IT'S NOT SO MUCH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT A DUMPSTER'S ON A SPECIFIC LOCATION AS THE PLAN OR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE YARD, BUT IT'S REALLY TO, UM, ENSURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT THROUGH WHERE THEY'RE GONNA PUT THE, WHAT THEY NEED TO DO THEIR BUILDING, UM, ET CETERA, AND THAT WE DON'T END UP WITH SITUATIONS WHERE DUMPSTERS ARE OUT IN THE STREET CAUSING PROBLEMS. AND WE HAVE MORE, WE HAVE MORE HELP ON THE WAY.
WAIT, DID YOU WANNA TALK TO US OR? I DO WANNA MAKE A COMMENT IF I, OKAY, SURE.
UH, SEAN COHEN, ASSISTANT TOWN MANAGER.
WE HAVE, UM, TWO OF OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT LEADS HERE.
WE HAVE ALAMO OFFICIAL, WE HAVE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR.
UM, I AGREE THAT A LOT OF THIS WE ALREADY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ENFORCE, BUT I THINK WE WERE ASKED TO BRING FORWARD, UM, SOME CLARITY ON THESE ITEMS AS WE BRING FORWARD, UH, I'M SORRY, CODE AMENDMENTS.
UM, AND SO I WOULD, FOR ME, I WOULD RELY ON THE LMO OFFICIAL AND OUR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER.
AND IF OUR BUILDING OFFICIAL WERE IN THE ROOM, I WOULD ASK THEM TO SAY, DOES IT PROVIDE CLARITY IF WE, UM, NEED TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OVER WHAT'S CURRENTLY DRAFTED IN THE CODE? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO JUST THAT.
UM, MISS YOU'RE AT THE PODIUM, IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION AND OUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY ABOUT PALM BRIDGE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION.
WELL, I, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS DOES PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CLARITY, UM, IN ONE PARTICULAR SECTION AS IT ORGANIZES ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION SITE MANAGEMENT.
UM, RIGHT NOW THERE ARE PIECES AND PARTS OF THIS THROUGHOUT VARIOUS SECTIONS WITHIN THE CODE.
THIS ORGANIZES IT ALL IN ONE PLACE AND PROVIDES THAT ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.
YES, IT'S A BEST PRACTICE WHERE WE DO COMMUNICATE WHEN WE HAVE A NAME STORM AND ASK THAT ALL OPEN PROJECTS DO SECURE THEIR SITE, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE CODE LANGUAGE THAT WE CAN LEAN BACK ON FOR THAT REQUIREMENT TO BE MET.
OF COURSE, IT'S A BEST PRACTICE.
YES, I THINK EVERYONE WHO'S DOING BUSINESS ON A JOB SITE WANTS TO MAINTAIN A CLEAN AND, AND, YOU KNOW, ORGANIZED, UM, CONSTRUCTION SITE AND BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR.
UM, THIS PROVIDES A, A VERY CLEAR AND ORGANIZED AVENUE FOR MYSELF AS THE LMO OFFICIAL AND MR. BROMAGE TO, UM, ASSIST WITH MAKING SURE THAT THAT IS THE EXPECTATION IS BEING MET OUT IN THE FIELD.
UM, AND WE REGULARLY HAVE A LIST THAT WE PROVIDE TO CODE ENFORCEMENT.
UM, THEY DO TRAVEL AROUND ALONG WITH OUR, UH, BUILDING INSPECTORS TO A NUMBER OF ACTIVE JOB SITES ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS.
AND, UM, THIS JUST ALLOWS, AGAIN, FOR OUR ENFORCEMENT, UM, OFFICERS AND OUR INSPECTIONS TEAM, UM, ONE, ONE PLACE IN THE BOOK TO LOOK FOR, UM, HOW SITES SHOULD BE MAINTAINED.
SO I BELIEVE IT DOES PUT IT, UM, IN A MUCH MORE ORGANIZED MANNER IN ONE PLACE.
WELL, FOR MY FOLKS, THE, THE MORE CLARITY, THE BETTER IN OUR CODE.
AND WE'VE NOTICED WE'VE, WE'VE HAD SOME AMENDMENTS COMING FORWARD THAT WE REALLY NEED TO, UH, ENFORCE.
SO THE MORE CLARITY, THE BETTER.
AND YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALWAYS OUT ON THESE BUILDING SITES LOOKING FOR CLEANLINESS, LOOKING FOR OVER OVERFLOWED, UH, DUMPSTERS, UH, VEHICLES IN THE STREET.
SO THIS, AS FAR AS THE TRASH GOES, I THINK IT'S O OFFER SOME CLARITY TO US.
DOES THAT HELP? NO, BUT I'M GOOD.
I THINK MR. DEON'S COMMENTS, UH, ARE SIGNIFICANT AND, UH, IMPORTANT.
UH, AND I THINK WE ALL NEED TO BE SENSITIVE TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY BECAUSE WE NEED THEM HERE.
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I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO HAVE PRECISE AND CLEAR RULES AND RULES IN AREAS THAT, UH, MS. LU HAS INDICATED WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE AT THE MOMENT.UH, MY MY PERSONAL VIEW IS THAT THIS, YES, IT MAY MAKE CONTRACTORS STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT, BUT I THINK THE INCREMENTAL PROBLEM IS NOT THAT GREAT.
AND THAT HAVING A MUCH CLEARER SET OF RULES IN MY MIND OUTWEIGHS WHAT I THINK WOULD BE AN IN INCREMENTAL DIFFERENCE.
AS FAR AS THE CONTRACTORS ARE CONCERNED, THEY ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. UM, IN TERMS OF WORKING ON THE ISLAND.
UH, WE KNOW THAT, UH, HOW MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THESE WOULD MAKE.
UH, I SUSPECT THEY WILL MAKE SOME DIFFERENCE.
BUT I THINK THAT DIFFERENCE IS OUTWEIGHED BY THE BENEFIT OF HAVING MUCH CLEARER AND MORE EXTENSIVE RULES.
I DON'T SEE AN AN ISSUE WITH THE CONTRACTOR SIGNING HIS PERMIT AND THESE RULES BEING IN HIS PERMIT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? THEY'RE THERE.
THEY, THE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT THE CONTRACTOR HAS TO SUPPLY ON TOP OF THAT.
I MEAN, EVERYONE SAID YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR DUMPSTER ON YOUR PROPERTY.
OKAY, WHY DO I HAVE TO SHOW YOU WHERE I'M GONNA HAVE MY DUMPSTER? AND AS MINOR AS IT, AS YOU OUT IN THE, OUT ON THE OUTSIDE WORLD THINK THAT IS AS MINOR AS THAT IS, THAT'S HOW FRAGILE THE SITUATION IS WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
THIS IS WHAT KEEPS GOOD PEOPLE OFF THE ISLAND DOING BUSINESS FOR US.
AND YOU MAY NOT THINK THAT'S THE CASE.
YOU MAY GO, THIS IS SO MINOR, BUT IT, BUT IT BUILDS AND IT BUILDS AND IT BUILDS.
AND WHEN THE PERSON SAYS, I, I'M COMING TO PICK, WELL, YOU NEVER TURNED IN YOUR SO AND SO.
OH, THAT'S JUST ANOTHER THING.
SO IT TAKES 'EM ANOTHER DAY AND THEY GOTTA GET A SITE PLAN, THEY TURN IT IN ANOTHER DELAY.
WE NEED TO BE SPITTING THESE THINGS OUT FAST AND PROPERLY, AND THEY NEED TO BE DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY AND THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND.
AND IF IT'S ALL VERBIAGE AND THEY SIGN IT AND THEY MAKE 'EM READ IT AND CHECK IT AND SIGN IT, I THINK THAT'S GREAT.
BUT TO, TO ADD A PIECE, ANOTHER PIECE OF PAPER INTO THEIR SUBMITTALS IS ALMOST LIKE A STRAW THAT BREAKS THE CAMEL'S BACK.
ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS SO MINOR TO YOU, AND IT'S MINOR TO ME, BUT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IT'S NOT.
I'VE BEEN HEARING IT FOR 40 YEARS.
AND I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT THAT THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT, UM, OUR COMMITTEE SYSTEM.
UM, THESE ARE THE TYPE OF DEBATES AND CONVERSATIONS THAT THIS IS TOTALLY, UM, APPROPRIATE TO HAVE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE.
AND SO, WHILE IT MAY BE TAKING US A FEW EXTRA MINUTES, UM, I REALLY THINK THAT THIS IS REALLY TIME WELL SPENT.
SO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S CONTRIBUTED AND, UM, AND WE'RE GOING TO CALL THE VOTE NOW.
AND ALL IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE HEALTHY DEBATE CONSIDERATION OF AN
[8.e. Consideration of an Ordinance of the Town of Hilton Head Island to Amend Title 16 of the Municipal Code, the Land Management Ordinance, to Amend the Current Design Regulations and Requirements for Open Space and Pathways in Major Subdivisions to Include Sections 16-3-104, 16-3-105, 16-4- 104, 16-5-103, 16-5-104, 16-5-107, 16-5-115, 16-6-102, 16-10-102, 16-10- 105, and Appendices A & D for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and Providing for Severability and an Effective Date - Missy Luick, Director of Planning]
ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, THE LAND MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, TO AMEND THE CURRENT DESIGN REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS AND MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS TO INCLUDE SECTION SIXTEEN THREE ONE OH FOUR SIXTEEN, THREE ONE OH FIVE SIXTEEN, FOUR ONE FOUR SIXTEEN, FIVE ONE OH THREE SIXTEEN, FIVE ONE OH FOUR SIXTEEN, FIVE ONE SEVEN SIXTEEN, FIVE ONE FIFTEEN SIXTEEN, SIX TWO SIXTEEN, ONE OH TWO, SIXTEEN, TEN ONE OH FIVE, AND APPENDICES A AND D FOR THE TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY IN THE, IN AN AND, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.MISSY LEIC, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING, THANK YOU AGAIN.
UM, SO THIS AMENDMENT BEFORE YOU IS AN AMENDMENT, UM, TO REQUIRE, UH, OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS, UH, WITHIN MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS.
UM, IT, UH, WE HELD A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON FEBRUARY 19TH, AND THEN THEY, UH, PROVIDED, UH, A MOTION AND VOTED ON MARCH 19TH, UM, AND RECOMMENDED APPROVAL TO TOWN COUNCIL.
THIS, AGAIN, IS STATED AS PART OF OUR LMO AMENDMENTS PLAN.
AS PART OF THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, UM, WITH ALL OF THESE PRIORITY AMENDMENTS, WE DID BRING THEM TO COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER FOR A WORKSHOP WHERE WE DISCUSSED A NUMBER OF ITEMS, UM, BEFORE THESE AMENDMENTS WERE FINALIZED.
UM, BUT ULTIMATELY WE TALKED ABOUT DESIGN REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS IN MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS.
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AT THAT WORKSHOP, WE WERE TOLD, UM, THAT AND GIVEN DIRECTION TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF COMMON OPEN SPACE, REMOVE DETENTION FACILITIES AND NATURAL WATER BODIES FROM THE DEFINITION, ADDING, UH, DOCKS AND BOARDWALKS TO THE DEFINITION.REMOVE THE CALCULATION OF REMNANT OPEN SPACE THAT PROVIDES NO VALUE.
CLARIFY THE LANGUAGE AND ADDITIONAL DESIGN STANDARDS FOR COMMON OPEN SPACES TO REQUIRE HIGHER QUALITY DESIGN AND IMPROVED FUNCTIONAL ACCESS.
UM, REMOVE ADJACENT STREET AND USE BUFFER CREDITS FROM OPEN SPACE CALCULATIONS AND REQUIRE PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY WITHIN SUBDIVISIONS AND REQUIRE CONNECTIONS TO THE TOWN'S MULTI-USE PATHWAYS SYSTEM.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, SEVERAL SECTIONS, UM, THAT THEY REQUESTED CLARIFICATION AND MODIFICATIONS TO THAT ARE INCLUDED HERE.
UM, ONE OF THEM WAS, UM, THE APPLICABILITY OF, UH, OPEN SPACE STANDARDS TO MINOR SUBDIVISIONS THAT WOULD LATER EXPAND BEYOND FIVE LOTS.
UM, EITHER WAY, UM, THAT PROVISION AS DUPLICATIVE AS THAT WOULD BECOME A MAJOR SUBDIVISION OF WHICH THEN THESE REQUIREMENTS WOULD, UM, COME INTO PLAY.
UM, WE ENDED UP KEEPING THAT LANGUAGE IN THE CODE.
UM, IT HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED TO BE STRUCK.
UM, AND THEN, UH, SPECIFYING, UM, THE USE OF VISUAL MARKERS LIKE SIGNS OR FENCING TO ENSURE THAT OPEN SPACE IS IDENTIFIABLE, UM, THAT WOULD ADDRESS SOME OF THE LANGUAGE THAT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE THAT WAS MORE DISCRETIONARY.
WE CLARIFIED THAT LANGUAGE AND BROUGHT IT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEY ENDORSED IT.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO DISCUSSED CLARIFICATION TO LANGUAGE, UM, REGARDING ACCESSIBILITY.
SO, UM, THE AMENDMENT OVERALL IS, UM, A RESULT OF, UM, SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY MEETING THE DESIRED OUTCOMES THAT, UM, WE'VE ESTABLISHED AS A COMMUNITY AND CONCERNS THAT, UM, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS DON'T ALIGN WITH SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
UM, WE'VE HEARD ABOUT ISSUES AS RELATES TO EXCESSIVE TREE CLEARING, UM, OVERLY LINEAR LAYOUTS OF SUBDIVISIONS, LOTS AND BLOCKS, UM, SOME MONOTONY IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITHIN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, INADEQUATE OPEN SPACE AND CONNECTIVITY.
UM, AND WE HAVE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS THAT ARE INCLUDED THROUGH OUTER CODE, UM, WHICH DOES LEAD TO A COMPLICATED REGULATORY FRAMEWORK THAT HAS TO BE, UM, ADDRESSED DURING PLAN REVIEW.
UM, WE ALSO, UM, IDENTIFIED SOME CHANGES TO THE CODE THAT WE PULLED FORWARD IN THE PRIORITY AMENDMENT SET, BUT WE WILL BE TAKING A DEEPER DIVE INTO OUR SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS DURING THE FULL CODE OVERHAUL.
UM, THIS AMENDMENT, UH, PROVIDES IMPROVEMENTS TO COMMON OPEN SPACE REGULATIONS, UM, AND ENHANCES PEDESTRIAN CYCLISTS CONNECTIVITY WITHIN NEW MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS.
UM, WE IDENTIFIED AGAIN THAT, UM, WE HAVE REGULATIONS THAT ALLOW FOR POORLY PLANNED OR UNDERUTILIZED OPEN SPACES, UM, AND THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT COMMON OPEN SPACES WITHIN MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS ARE WELL-PLANNED, FUNCTIONAL, AND CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND RIGHT NOW, THE CURRENT CODE DOES NOT MANDATE PATHWAYS OR CONNECTIONS WITHIN, UH, SUBDIVISIONS AND, UH, THIS AMENDMENT, UH, MAKES THAT A REQUIREMENT.
SO, UH, LIKE WITH ALL OF THE AMENDMENTS, THERE IS AN ANALYSIS TABLE THAT IDENTIFIES, UM, WHAT, UH, THIS AMENDMENT IS IS MEANT TO IMPROVE, UH, BASED ON THE ISSUE.
AND THEN HOW THE TEXT WITHIN THE AMENDMENT ADDRESSES THAT.
UM, THERE IS A DEFINITION CHANGE TO COMMON OPEN SPACE THAT IS PROPOSED.
UM, IT, IT DOES, UM, WHAT WE DID WAS ELIMINATE THE, UM, WE, WE DO NOT INCLUDE DETENTION RETENTION PONDS, UM, BUT WE DID ADD, UH, THE DOCKS AND BOARDWALKS.
SO WHILE THAT DETENTION POND IS NO LONGER PART OF YOUR COMMON OPEN SPACE, THAT DOCK TO ACCESS THAT WATER IS AND CAN BE COUNTED.
UM, SO OPEN SPACES THAT ARE COUNTED IN THE DEFINITION ARE GOLF COURSES, TENNIS COURTS, UM, COURT GAMES, SWIMMING POOLS, PEDESTRIAN BIKE PASS, EQUESTRIAN TRAILS, PLAY FIELDS, PICNIC AREAS, PADDOCKS, DOCKS, BOARDWALK, UM, WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT, UM, PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER IN PASSIVE RECREATION AREAS IS WHAT'S DEFINED.
UM, WE ALSO IDENTIFIED, UM, THAT WE NEEDED TO CLARIFY THE DESIGN STANDARDS AND TO REMOVE THAT CALCULATION OF REMNANT OPEN SPACE.
UM, OPEN SPACE HAS TO BE VISUALLY IDENTIFIABLE, DISTINGUISHED BY ELEMENTS THAT INCLUDES SIGNS, FENCING, LANDSCAPE BUFFERS, TRAIL SYSTEMS, POOLS, SPORT FACILITIES, GRASS LAWNS.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, UM, COMMON SPACES, LOCATIONS, COMMON OPEN SPACE LOCATIONS SHALL BE CONNECTED, UM, TO ALL LOTS WITHIN THE SUBDIVISION BY PATHWAYS, AND IT SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL RESIDENTS OF THE SUBDIVISION.
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SUBJECT TO REASONABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS.AND THEN THERE ARE, UM, DESIGN, UH, REQUIREMENTS SUCH THAT THE AREA OF, OR MULTIPLE AREAS OF COMMON OPEN SPACE SHALL BE PLANNED FOR ACTIVE AND PASSIVE RECREATIONAL USE, AT LEAST 75% OF COMMON OPEN SPACE SHALL BE ARRANGED IN DIMENSIONS, NO LESS THAN 15 FEET IN ANY DIRECTION.
AT LEAST 50% OF THE COMMON OPEN SPACE SHALL, SHALL BE ARRANGED IN ONE CONTIGUOUS AREA.
UM, AND THEN FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS REQUIREMENT, UM, AREAS THAT ARE DIVIDED BY PATHWAY, SIDEWALKS OR STREETS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE CONTIGUOUS.
UM, AND THEN THE ARRANGEMENT AND DESIGN OF OPEN SPACE SHALL PRIORITIZE THE PRESERVATION OF EXISTING TRACKS OF SPECIMEN AND SIGNIFICANT TREES.
AND THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT, UM, HOW THE APPLICANT HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT DURING THE DESIGN, UH, REVIEW PROCESS, THE CURRENT CODE, UM, ALLOWS A CREDIT TOWARD OPEN SPACE FOR THE ADJACENT STREET AND USE BUFFERS.
AND THAT IS BEING REMOVED AS IT DID NOT PROVIDE VALUE TO THE COMMON OPEN SPACE.
THAT MEANS THAT, UM, YOUR ADJACENT USE BUFFER COULD BE EVEN BEHIND.
UM, AN INDIVIDUAL LOT COULD HAVE BEEN COUNTED AS COMMON OPEN SPACE.
UM, AND IT'S NOT VERY ACCESSIBLE.
IT ALSO MEANS THAT THAT ADJACENT STREET BUFFER RIGHT ALONG THE ROAD EDGE, UM, WOULD'VE BEEN COUNTED AS OPEN SPACE, AND THOSE ARE BEING REMOVED, UH, FROM THE CODE IN THIS AMENDMENT.
UM, ADDITIONALLY ON THE PATHWAY CONNECTIVITY, UM, IT REQUIRES PATHWAYS TO BE CONNECTED AND REQUIRED, UM, WITHIN SUBDIVISIONS.
AGAIN, IT APPLIES JUST TO MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS.
IT DOES NOT APPLY TO FAMILY SUBDIVISIONS OR MINOR SUBDIVISIONS.
UM, THE PATHWAYS HAVE TO PROVIDE DIRECT CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE LOTS.
UM, ALSO HAS TO PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY TO AMENITIES, UM, MAILBOXES, COMMUNITY BUILDINGS, COMMON OPEN SPACE, AND RECREATIONAL AREAS.
UM, AND AGAIN, UM, SIMILAR TO THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS, UM, THE PATHWAY CONNECTIVITY REQUIREMENT CAN BE MET, UM, IF IT'S ACROSS THE STREET OR UM, OR ADJACENT TO COMMON OPEN SPACE.
THERE'S SOME DESIGN, UH, CRITERIA FOR THE PATHWAYS.
UM, AND, UM, AND THOSE ARE IDENTIFIED HERE.
SO WE REQUIRE PATHWAYS TO BE CONNECTED WITHIN THE SUBDIVISION.
UM, AND, UM, IT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING PATHWAY SYSTEM OR A PATHWAY THAT'S PLANNED WITHIN THE TOWN'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
SO YOU WOULD BUILD THAT STUB OUT TO, UM, AN AREA WHERE, UH, THE TOWN HAS A PLAN FOR A PATHWAY IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, UM, IF THE LAND THAT'S PROPOSED FOR A SUBDIVISION IS A PRIORITY CONNECTION BETWEEN EXISTING PATHWAYS AND IS IN AN ADOPTED TOWN PATHWAY PLAN, THEN IT SHOULD BE DI DESIGNED TO CONNECT TO THAT, UH, FUTURE PATHWAY AS WELL.
THERE ARE SOME DEFINITION CHANGES.
AGAIN, WE MENTIONED THE DEFINITION CHANGE TO COMMON OPEN SPACE BECAUSE WE'RE, UM, AMENDING REQUIREMENTS FOR PATHWAYS AND SIDEWALKS, THOSE ARE NOW DEFINED TERMS AS WELL IN THE CODE.
AND THOSE DEFINITIONS ARE INCLUDED WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT.
SOME OF THE EXAMPLES THAT SHOW SOME OF THE, UM, OPEN SPACE THAT IS CURRENTLY ALLOWED THAT WOULD NO LONGER BE ALLOWED.
HERE, YOU CAN SEE AN ACTUAL SUBDIVISION THAT SHOWS THAT ADJACENT STREET OPEN SPACE IS RIGHT HERE ADJACENT TO THE ROADWAY, UM, THAT WOULD NO LONGER COUNT TOWARD YOUR REQUIRED OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENT.
UM, AND THEN HERE ON THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN SEE THESE LITTLE SEGMENTS OF OPEN SPACE THAT ARE IN THE ADJACENT USE BUFFER THAT ARE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR REQUIREMENT OF OPEN SPACE, AS WELL AS THIS, UM, MARSH AREA THAT IS ALSO PART OF YOUR OPEN SPACE.
AND HERE, UM, AN OPEN SPACE IN A, IN A SUBDIVISION ON HILTON HEAD INCLUDES YOUR DRAINAGE LAGOON.
UM, AND THAT WOULD NO LONGER QUALIFY AS YOUR OPEN SPACE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU WERE GOING TO BUILD A DOCK TO ACCESS THAT DRAINAGE AREA, THAT THAT AREA THAT ENCOMPASSES THAT DOCK COULD BE COUNTED AS YOUR OPEN SPACE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES OF, UM, SOME OF THE OPEN SPACE CRITERIA THAT WILL BE REMOVED AS PART OF THIS AMENDMENT.
SO THE CODE, UM, HAS A, A, A CHAPTER THAT HANDLES, UM, STANDARDS FOR, UM, NONCONFORMITIES AND, UM, COMMON OPEN SPACE AND PATHWAYS THAT ARE PART OF MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS MAY BECOME NONCONFORMING WITH NEW REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE PROPOSED IN THIS AMENDMENT.
UM, HOWEVER, THESE ELEMENTS OF MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS MAY CONTINUE TO EXIST AS LEGAL NON-CONFORMING SITE FEATURES WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ANY UPDATES, UM, OR COMPLIANCE AS A RESULT OF THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT.
UM, AGAIN, UM, TO ALL TEXT AMENDMENTS ARE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN, UM, TEXT AMENDMENT REVIEW STANDARDS.
UM, AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT SET DOES MEET THE REQUIRED REVIEW CRITERIA.
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IT SUPPORTS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHICH INCLUDES GOALS FOR PRESERVING HILTON HEAD ISLANDS CHARACTER ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY, AND ENSURING WELL INTEGRATED OPEN SPACES.OUR PLAN STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR OUR PLAY STATES TO EVALUATE, DEVELOP, AND MAINTAIN STANDARDS THAT PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE NATURAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS THAT REFLECT THE CHARACTER OF THE ISLAND.
IT RESPONDS TO CHANGING CONDITIONS BY AVOIDING FRAGMENTED, UNDERUTILIZED, AND UNCONNECTED SPACES OBSERVED IN CERTAIN DEVELOPMENTS.
IT ADDRESSES A DEMONSTRATED COMMUNITY NEED FOR FUNCTIONAL, ACCESSIBLE, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS.
IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE ZONING DISTRICTS BY ACCOMMODATING A COMFORTABLE, HEALTHY, SAFE, AND PLEASANT ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TO LIVE AND RECREATE AND ENSURES THAT OPEN SPACES SERVE RESIDENTS EFFECTIVELY.
AND SUBDIVISIONS CONNECT TO BROADER TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, PROMOTE PROMOTING A LOGICAL AND ORDERLY GROWTH AND SAFE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES.
AND IT MINIMIZES ADVERSE IMPACTS ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROV PRESERVING COMMON OPEN SPACE IN NATURAL AREAS IN MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS AND PROMOTES NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS PARTICULAR AMENDMENT SET OVER APPROVAL? MR. WILLIAMS? THANK YOU, MR. BECKER.
UM, CHESTER WILLIAMS. UM, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT'S THE WAY THIS IS PRESENTED WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE IS, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SOMEWHAT MISLEADING WHEN YOU, IF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE SECTION ONE SAYS THAT NEWLY ADDED LANGUAGE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH DOUBLE UNDERLINE AND DELETED LANGUAGES ILLUSTRATED WITH STRIKE STRIKETHROUGH.
AND WHEN YOU FLIP THROUGH THE, THE EXHIBIT, THE ONLY THING I SEE RIGHT OFF THAT IS DOUBLE UNDERLINED IS IN 16 5 1 0 4 C3, BUT MOST OF, WELL, NOT MOST, A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF ALL THIS IS NEW LANGUAGE AND IT'S NOT MARKED AS DOUBLE UNDERLINED.
SO IT'S DIFFICULT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO READ THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEING CHANGED.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, IF YOU LOOK AT 16 5 1 0 4 D TWO, THE COMMON OPEN SPACE SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL RESIDENTS OF THE SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT, SUBJECT TO REASONABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS WHOSE RULES AND REGULATIONS.
IF IT'S THE TOWN'S RULES AND REGULATIONS, THEN IT'S GOTTA BE IN THE ORDINANCE.
IF IT'S AN OWNER'S ASSOCIATION'S RULES AND REGULATIONS, WELL THEN THAT'S WHAT IT OUGHT TO SAY BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME POA COVENANTS THAT I'VE READ THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, DENY A AN OWNER THE USE OF COMMON ELEMENTS IF THEY'RE DELINQUENT IN THE PAYMENT OF THEIR ASSESSMENTS.
SO YOU DON'T WANNA SET UP A SITUATION WHERE THE TOWN SAYS IT'S ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYBODY, BUT THE APPLICABLE COVENANTS SAY, NO, WE CAN PROHIBIT YOU FROM USING IT.
SO IT NEED, IT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR.
AND THEN IF YOU FLIP A COUPLE PAGES BACK ONTO PAGE 180 3 OF TWO 18, HAVING TO DO WITH PATHWAY CONNECTIVITY SUB E THERE'S BEEN A LOT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, I, SO A LOT OF, WELL, LET'S GET ALL THE, THE SUBJECTIVE TERMINATIONS OUTTA THE CODE AND MAKE IT OBJECTIVE.
BUT HERE IT'S SAYING THAT THE OFFICIAL MAY APPROVE A SIDEWALK AND THE OFFICIAL MAY DETERMINE THAT IF IT MEETS THESE CRITERIA THAT IT'S SET UP, THEN IT OUGHT TO BE SHALL APPROVE.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU USE THE TERM MAY INSTEAD OF SHALL, THEN THAT SETS UP A SITUATION WHERE, AND I'M, AND I KNOW THAT MISSY WOULDN'T DO IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO'S COMING AFTER THAT.
YOU SAY, WELL, IT SAYS I, I'M THE LO OFFICIAL THAT SAYS I MAY APPROVE IT.
I DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO, SO NO, I'M NOT GONNA APPROVE IT, BUT THIS OTHER GUY OVER HERE, I LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING, SO I WILL APPROVE IT OVER THERE.
SO IF YOU WANT TO, IF YOU WANT IT TO BE OBJECTIVE, THEN MAKE IT OBJECTIVE.
IF YOU WANT IT TO BE SUBJECTIVE, THEN YOU OPEN IT UP TO ALL SORTS OF POSSIBLE SHENANIGANS.
UM, SO DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR, UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER THOUGHTS
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ON, I I HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME.AS I MENTIONED, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, CREATING SOMETHING THAT DOES GO AGAINST WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO DO, UM, WHICH IS TO MAKE THINGS RELATIVELY, NOT RELATIVELY, TO MAKE THINGS UNDERSTOOD SO THAT THERE'S A CLARITY AND WE KEEP USING THE WORD CLARITY TODAY, CLARITY ON WHAT'S ACCEPTABLE AND WHAT'S APPROVABLE AND WHAT ISN'T.
UM, SO I AM A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND THE DOUBLE UNDERLINING, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S EASILY REMEDIED.
UM, THE IDEA WITH REGARD TO REASONABLE RULES, UM, I DO HEAR HOW THAT COULD BE DIFFICULT IF A, FIRST WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY WHOSE RULES AND THEN IF IT'S THE HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION RULES, IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ENFORCE IN THE TOWN'S, AND IT'S THE TOWN'S RULES WHERE THAT PUTS EVERYONE.
SO I'M NOT SURE HOW WE ADDRESS THOSE.
ANY THOUGHTS FROM ANYONE? DEFINITELY WELCOME.
ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE? NO, UM, ACTUALLY THOSE WERE ALSO DISCUSSED AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION LEVEL.
UM, AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARD THIS AMENDMENT TWICE, UH, BECAUSE OF THE SAME CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED.
UM, THE REASONABLE RULES COMMENT, UH, REGARDING ACCESS TO THE OPEN SPACE WAS THAT THERE COULD BE A POOL THAT COUNTS AS YOUR COMMON OPEN SPACE.
IT MAY HAVE HOURS OF OPERATION, UM, AND THEN IT'S NOT ACCESSIBLE ALL THE TIME.
AND THOSE ARE REASONABLE RULES AND EXPECT, UH, REQUIREMENTS.
UM, THERE COULD BE OTHER, UM, COMMON OPEN SPACE AMENITIES THAT ALSO HAVE REASONABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT LIMIT THE ACCESS TO THEM.
AND SO, UM, WE DISCUSSED THAT BOTH WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND REANALYZED IT WITH OUR CODE AMENDMENT TEAM, AND, UH, FELT THAT THE LANGUAGE AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION AGREED SHOULD REMAIN AS IS.
UM, THERE WAS A, UM, PUBLISHING ERROR ON, UH, THE VERSION THAT WAS IN THE PACKET, BUT THE, UM, THE AMENDMENT, UM, IS IN, UH, THE DOUBLE UNDERLINE AND STRIKEOUT AND, UM, IT'S UP ON THE SCREEN.
SO, UM, WHEN IT MOVES FORWARD TO COUNCIL, IT WILL BE IN THIS VERSION SO YOU CAN TRACK ALL OF THE AREAS THAT IT IS BEING CHANGED.
UM, AND THEN I THINK THE LAST QUESTION WAS RELATED TO, UM, SORRY, CLARITY.
SO THE, IT WAS RELATED TO THE, UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET BACK, CINDY TO THE, IS IT, THIS ONE IS THE PDF? YES.
SO THE LAST ONE THAT WAS RELATED TO THE MAY OR SHALL ISSUE FOR THE SIDEWALK VERSUS PATHWAY, THAT WAS ALSO DISCUSSED AS WELL.
UM, CERTAINLY SHALL IS A REQUIREMENT IN MAY IS PERMISSIVE.
IT, IT ALLOWS, UM, SOME, SOME DISCRETION YES, FOR THE LMO OFFICIAL.
UM, IT WAS ALSO SOME LANGUAGE THAT WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE TOWN ATTORNEY AS WELL PRIOR TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION.
AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT MAY IS THE APPROPRIATE WORD IN THAT CONTEXT.
UM, BECAUSE THERE ARE VARIOUS SCENARIOS THAT ARE OUTLINED THERE, UM, THAT MAY, UH, BE APPLICABLE TO WHEN A SIDEWALK IS, UH, WHAT IS THE PREFERRED, UH, PEDESTRIAN MODE, UH, VERSUS A PATHWAY.
SO WE, WE DID CONTEMPLATE THOSE PARTICULAR QUESTIONS, UM, AND THEN BROUGHT THEM BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE, THE TEXT THAT'S BEFORE YOU IS WHAT WAS RECOMMENDED.
SO MAY KEEPS CHET BUSY AND SHELL TAKES HIM OUTTA BUSINESS
WE'VE SEEN THOSE ARGUMENTS AND HOW WELL THEY CAN BE PRESENTED, UM, IN THE PAST.
ALRIGHT, ANY THOUGHTS OR ANY COMMENTS? NO.
THIS IS, UM, BEING RECOMMENDED TO TOWN COUNCIL, SO THERE'S OPPORTUNITY FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
SO, UM, HEARING THAT, I GUESS WE CAN CALL THE QUESTION AND TAKE A VOTE.
ALL IN FAVOR? AND OPPOSED? OKAY.
AND NOW TRYING TO SKIP TO IT EARLIER, IT'S A CONSIDERATION
[8.f. Consideration of a Resolution of the Town Council of the Town of Hilton Head Island Authorizing the execution of a Non-Exclusive Drainage and Utility Easement Agreement from Beaufort County for Property Located at 55 Gardner Drive - Shawn Colin, Assistant Town Manager]
OF A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF COUNCIL, OF THE HI TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUTHORIZING THE ASKS EXECUTION, EXCUSE ME, OF NON-EXCLUSIVE DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENT AGREEMENT FROM BEAUFORT COUNTY FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 55 GARDNER DRIVE.SEAN COLLIN IS HERE TO PRESENT THAT TO US.
THIS IS SEAN COLLINS, THIS IS THE TIME MANAGER.
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I'VE GOT A 85 SLIDE PRESENTATION, 85, NO, I'M JUST JOKING.THIS CAN BE A RELATIVELY, HOPEFULLY STRAIGHTFORWARD, UM, ITEM.
SO THERE'S AN EASEMENT LOCATED AT 55 GARDNER DRIVE.
IT WAS THE OLD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SITE.
UM, NOW IT'S 55 GARDNER AQUA TERRA.
UM, THERE'S A EASEMENT, A DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENT THAT RUNS.
CAN WE PUT THE, UM, GRAPHIC UP THERE FOR THAT? YES.
UM, GARDNER DRIVE THIS LOOP ROAD THAT RUNS, UM, ON THE, UH, LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN HERE.
BUT YOU HAVE OLD WOODLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD BACK HERE.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN, UH, AN, A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS FREQUENTLY FLOODED.
UM, WE HAVE, WE TRIED FOR A PERIOD TO IDENTIFY AN EASEMENT THAT EXISTS ALONG THIS, UH, COMMON PROPERTY LINE, UM, AND WORK WITH THE COUNTY TO OBTAIN THAT.
SO OUR STORM WATER UTILITY, UM, CAN INSTALL, MANAGE, PLAN, EXECUTE SOME STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS THERE.
UM, IT TOOK A QUITE A WHILE, UM, IN ORDER FOR US TO GET THE DOCUMENTATION FROM THE COUNTY.
UM, AND THEN IRONICALLY ENOUGH, THEY PROVIDED, UM, APPROVAL TO CONVEY THIS EASEMENT TO THE TOWN IN JANUARY OF 2024.
UM, BUT AS PART OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT THEY DELIVERED, UM, TO CONVEY THE, TO CONVEY THE EASEMENT, UH, THEY DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER EXHIBIT.
AND IT TOOK SOME DIGGING FROM CURTIS AND HIS TEAM.
UM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY WENT BACK TO THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OR SOMETHING, BUT THEY FOUND THE RIGHT, UH, EXHIBIT AND PLAT REFERENCE FOR THE EASEMENT.
UM, AND SO WHAT'S BEFORE YOU TODAY IS AN EASEMENT.
YOU CAN SEE THE AREA IN BLUE HATCH HERE.
UM, THAT IS, THAT REPRESENTS THE, THE EASEMENT THAT'S ON THE PLOT, UM, THAT'S ATTACHED TO THE, TO THE, UH, RESOLUTION.
UH, BUT WHAT'S BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT THIS EASEMENT FROM BUFORT COUNTY FOR DRAINAGE AND UTILITY.
THERE IS CURRENTLY NO INFRASTRUCTURE IN THIS EASEMENT.
UM, BUT OUR STORMWATER TEAM HAS BEEN TRYING TO ACQUIRE THIS FOR SOME TIME AND, AND ONCE ACQUIRED, WE'LL BE ABLE TO PLAN AND EXECUTE SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS AREA.
SO, UH, UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, I'LL STOP THERE.
NO, STEVE, ANY QUESTIONS? UM, GLAD TO HEAR THERE'S IMPROVEMENTS COMING, UM, THAT WILL SOLVE SOME DRAINAGE ISSUES THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
SO, UM, WE NEED A MOTION OVER APPROVAL.
SECOND, AND ALL IN FAVOR? A OPPOSED? THANK YOU.
SO WITH THAT, UM, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN AND I'M GONNA ASK EVERYONE, UM, FOR, UM, TO HAVE A GREAT DAY.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS LONG MEETING.
BEAUFORT COUNTY GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REMIND YOU THAT WE ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY IN THE SALE, RENTAL AND FINANCING OF DWELLINGS AND ANOTHER HOUSING RELATED TRANSACTIONS REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, SEX, FAMILIAL STATUS, OR DISABILITY.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FAIR HOUSING, PLEASE CALL 8 4 3 7 2 6 5 5 3 6.
IF YOU'RE A BUSINESS OWNER THAT OPERATES WITHIN THE UNINCORPORATED BOUNDARIES OF BEAUFORT COUNTY, IT'S TIME TO RENEW YOUR COUNTY BUSINESS LICENSE.
YOUR BUSINESS LICENSE MUST BE RENEWED BY APRIL 30TH, OR YOU'LL FACE LATE PENALTIES.
THE STANDARD LICENSE HERE IS MAY 1ST THROUGH APRIL 30TH, AND IS BASED ON THE PRIOR YEAR'S GROSS INCOME.
THE COUNTY BUSINESS SERVICES DEPARTMENT IS MAILING REMINDERS AND SENDING INFORMATION TO ALL BUSINESSES DUE TO RENEW.
SO BE SURE TO WATCH YOUR MAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION.
PLEASE VISIT BEAUFORT COUNTY C.GOV/BUSINESS SERVICES
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THIRD QUARTER.THE SWAT TEAM, WE STARTED BACK IN 1986 AND, UH, I WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE FIRST TEAM MEMBERS OF THE SWAT IN 1986.
AND IT WAS MAINLY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO SERVE HIGH RISK WARRANTS.
AND, UH, AND WE WERE DURING THAT TIME WERE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN SOME, UH, VIP PROTECTION BECAUSE OF HILTON HEAD AND, AND SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT VISITED US HERE IN IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
UH, SWAT, UH, BASICALLY STANDS FOR SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS AND BASICALLY IT'S MADE UP OF SPECIALIZED OFFICERS WITH SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT.
THEIR PRIMARY MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE ROAD PATROL.
ANYTHING THAT IS, THAT IS OUTTA THE CAPABILITY OF THE ROAD PATROL.
THE SWAT TEAM WILL HANDLE, UH, ANYBODY THAT'S ARMED AND DANGEROUS, UH, HAS A EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL HISTORY.
UM, HIGH RISK WARRANT SERVICE, UM, DRUG RAIDS, UH, VIP PROTECTION, BARRICADES, HOSTAGE RESCUE, UM, OR EVEN SURVEILLANCE DETAILS WHERE WE'RE SURVEILLING AN ARMED AND DANGEROUS PERSON.
UM, THEY ARE CALLED IN TO DEAL WITH THAT SUSPECT DUE TO THEIR EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING.
UH, CONSIST OF, UH, WE, WE TRAIN TWICE A MONTH, EIGHT HOURS A DAY FOR A TOTAL 16 HOURS.
THAT'S NOT INCLUDING ANY TYPE OF SPECIAL EXERCISES OR, UH, ADDITIONAL TRAINING.
AND BASICALLY WHAT THOSE TRAINING HOURS DO IS ALLOW US TO, UH, REHEARSE AND TO, UH, WORK ON THE, THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE JOB SUSPECT TAKE DOWN OBVIOUSLY WEAPONS TRAINING, UH, EXTENSIVE WEAPONS TRAINING, UM, AND WE HAVE VERY, WE HAVE, UH, A LOT OF DIFFERENT PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO KEEP UP ON.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAS RECENTLY STARTED UP A, UH, UH, THE, THE STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION.
UH, OUR STATE POLICE HAS STARTED UP A-W-M-M-D INITIATIVE FOR ANTI-TERRORIST OPERATIONS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND THEY'VE, THEY'VE IDENTIFIED SEVEN, UH, SWAT TEAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE, UH, TO BASICALLY COME TOGETHER AND PROTECT THE STATE AGAINST TERRORIST, UH, UH, SITUATIONS.
AND BEFORD COUNTY SWAT TEAM IS ONE WE HANDLE THE LOW COUNTRY, UM, WHICH IS SEVEN COUNTIES.
AND WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE ARE, OUR TEAM IS COMBINED WITH THE HILTON HEAD ISLAND, A HAZMAT TEAM, OUR SWAT TEAM, AND THE THE BEAUFORT COUNTY BOMB SQUAD.
AND WE CAN RESPOND REALLY ANYWHERE IN THE STATE, BUT NORMALLY THE LOWER PART, THE LOWER SEVEN COUNTIES OF THE STATE FOR ANY TYPE OF TERRORIST INCIDENT, WE WILL ACTUALLY RESPOND THERE AND HANDLE THOSE CALLS.
WHAT WE WERE TRAINED FOR HERE IS IF WE HAVE A BARRICADED SUBJECT INSIDE A BUILDING WITH A MULTI-STORY, WITH SOME WINDOWS THAT WE CAN REPEL INTO.
UM, SOME OF THE TIME WE CAN'T, UH, MAKE ENTRY INTO A BUILDING FROM OUTSIDE PERIMETER BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WITH ALL THE WINDOWS HE CAN SEE WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
IF WE CAN GET ON A SIDE THAT WE KNOW HE'S NOT LOOKING AT, WE CAN GET TO THE TOP OF THE BUILDING AND REPEL DOWN IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS AND GAIN ENTRY TO ONE OF THE MULTI, UH, STORIES AND COME DOWN THE STAIRS AND, YOU KNOW, GET TO THE SUBJECT FROM THERE WHILE, UM, AT THE SAME TIME COMING IN WITH THE ENTRY TEAM SO WE CAN GET 'EM FROM BOTH SIDES.
ONE THING IS THE COMRADERY, JUST BEING ON A TEAM ASPECT.
UM, IT'S ALWAYS AN ADRENALINE GETTER, EVERYTHING WE DO, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT EXCITING.
IT'S DANGEROUS, BUT IT'S ALSO EXCITING AT THE SAME TIME.
I SERVED FOUR YEARS WITH THE MILITARY, UM, AND THEN WENT TO COLLEGE AND THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I WANTED TO DO.
I AM THE REPEL MASTER FOR THE TEAM AND THEY, THE SCHOOLS TO LEARN HOW TO TIE THE SYSTEMS AND HOOK EVERYTHING UP SO IT'S DONE IN A SAFE MANNER.
THEY MIGHT BE EXPECTING US TO COME FROM THE BOTTOM FLOOR, AND IN FACT, WE CAN EITHER COME THROUGH THE TOP FLOOR WINDOWS, WHICH WOULD BE AN ADVANTAGE ON US 'CAUSE WE GET THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE.
OR WE CAN ALSO, UH, YOU KNOW, DEPLOY FLASH BANGS.
ALL THESE GUYS ON THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, SWAT TEAM VOLUNTEER FOR THIS.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS, UH, IT'S A COLLATERAL DUTY FOR THESE GUYS AND, AND THEY ALL VOLUNTEER TO DO IT AFTER COMING OUTTA THE MILITARY.
UH, SWAT TEAM HAD THE OPTIONS AND THE SAME THINGS I DID WHEN I WAS IN THE SERVICE.
AIRBORNE INFANTRY, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE FRONT LINES, TIP OF SPEAR DOING THE TYPES OF, UH, HIGH SPEED THINGS THAT DID THE MILITARY, UH, PROVIDE A GREATER SENSE OF SECURITY TO THE, UH, CITIZENS OF BE COUNTY.
ONE THING ABOUT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, I CAN DEFINITELY SAY IS WE DO HAVE TOP LINE EQUIPMENT, UH, ALL THE NEWEST GADGETS AND GIZMOS WEAPONS, YOU KNOW, AND ANYTHING THAT'S GONNA HELP US DO OUR JOB BETTER AND SAFER.
WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY ALL THE WEAPONS.
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HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF WEAPONS FOR THE DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.WE HAVE RAPPEL GEAR, RESCUE GEAR.
WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, WATERBORNE TYPE, UH, GEAR BECAUSE WE DO, 'CAUSE THE, THE AREA THAT WE LIVE IN, WE WORK ON THE WATER A LOT.
WE HAVE A LOT OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, WHICH ARE BALLISTIC SHIELDS AND VESTS AND HELMETS.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE DIFFERENT CHEMICAL MUNITIONS.
SO IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO FORCE SOMEBODY OUT OF A LOCATION, WE HAVE, UH, A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHEMICAL MUNITIONS THAT WE CAN DEPLOY TO TRY TO RESOLVE THAT SITUATION.
THE BOMB TEAM CAME AROUND, UH, OVER THE PAST COUPLE YEARS.
UH, AND THE REALITY THERE IS WE WERE DEPENDENT UPON AN AGENCY, UH, WHICH IS REFERRED TO AS SLED LOCATED IN COLUMBIA, WHICH REQUIRES SEVERAL HOURS OF NOTICE BEFORE THEY CAN RESPOND AND ACTUALLY BE HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
AND WE SAW THE BENEFITS OF WHAT SWAT HAS DONE, UH, FOR, FOR US LOCALLY, AND KNEW THAT THE BOMB TEAM WOULD DO THE SAME THING.
WE'VE HAD A BOMB SQUAD, UH, COMING UP ON THREE YEARS NOW.
AND, UH, I WANNA OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS, MYSELF AND THE CAPTAIN, WITH WHAT BIT OF KNOWLEDGE I DID HAVE FROM THE MILITARY OF, UH, MECHANICAL THINGS AND EXPLOSIVES AND ELECTRICAL, UH, THAT IT, THAT, UH, I MIGHT MAKE AN ASSET TO IT.
AND, UH, I THINK, UH, BEAUFORT COUNTY IS VERY PROGRESSIVE.
EVERY BOMB SQUAD IN THE UNITED STATES IS ACCREDITED THROUGH THE FBI.
AND ONCE WE GOT THAT ACCREDITATION, WHICH WAS A COMBINATION OF ACQUIRING THE EQUIPMENT AND SENDING OUR OUR PEOPLE TO BOMB SCHOOL, THAT'S WHEN THE, THE TEAM ACTUALLY, UH, WAS STOOD UP AND WE STARTED ANSWERING CALLS IN THE COUNTY.
WE HAVE HAVE GROWN BOTH OF THOSE UNITS TO INCLUDE, UH, WATER RESCUE WITH OUR ZODIAC, UH, BOAT.
UH, WE ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN, YOU KNOW, IN, IN WATERBORNE, UH, SITUATIONS, UH, BECAUSE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE PROTECTION OF OUR COUNTY.
BUT WE ARE, WE'RE A COASTAL COUNTY.
THE, THE THEORY BEHIND ALL OF THOSE SPECIAL TEAMS IS TO HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, UH, VERY QUICKLY, UH, IN CRITICAL SITUATIONS AND PROTECT BEAUFORT COUNTY CITIZENS AND GUESTS THAT, UH, THAT, UH, WE'RE HERE AND SWORN TO PROTECT BECAUSE OF THE JOB.
WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO WORK IN THE WATER, YOU KNOW, WORK IN THE WOODS, YOU KNOW, WORK IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, UH, UH, BECAUSE WE NEVER KNOW WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE CALLED TO, TO RESPOND TO THESE GUYS AND GALS.
THEY WORK HARD, THEY TRAIN HARD, UH, THEY DO AN EXCELLENT JOB AND THEY'RE ABLE TO DO ALL OF WHAT THEY DO.
NOT ONLY WOULD THEIR PRIMARY JOB, BUT THEIR SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES AS WELL.
BEAUFORT COUNTY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES LOCAL, SMALL AND MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES TO SUBMIT A NEW VENDOR APPLICATION TO ITS PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.
THE APPLICATION AND VENDOR GUIDE ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE ALONG WITH INFORMATION ABOUT CURRENT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
VISIT WWW.BEAUFORTCOUNTYSC.GOV.
CLICK ON I WANT TO VIEW BIDS AND RFPS.
UNDER BUSINESS SERVICES, VENDORS MUST BE REGISTERED WITH THE COUNTY IN ORDER TO RESPOND TO SOLICITATIONS, QUOTES, BIDS OR PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY BUSINESSES THAT ARE NOT REGISTERED WITH THE COUNTY WILL BE REJECTED.
REGISTERED VENDORS RECEIVE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS WHEN NEW SOLICITATIONS PERTAINING TO THEIR AREA OF INTEREST ARE POSTED TO THE WEBSITE.
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