CENTURY V – CHARLESTON’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN A Comprehensive Plan is a state-mandated long-range plan intended to direct the development of a community over ten or more years. It is a statement of community values and goals concerning the existing and future environment. It serves as a guide for decision makers and a tool for managing […]
THE PROJECT OR INITIATIVE Today, roughly 29,000 cars travel the Sam Rittenberg corridor daily. Based on that traffic volume, the street could theoretically be narrowed to just 3 lanes from its current maximum of 7. In short, there is an excess of asphalt in this part of West Ashley. That extra space could be better […]
Continuing in our ongoing set of interviews with leaders of Charleston’s constellation of civic-minded organizations, this week’s blog features Charleston native Winslow Hastie, Chief Preservation Officer of Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF). Some people may think of Historic Charleston Foundation as it relates to historic preservation and the Charleston peninsula, but it seems HCF has gotten involved with some […]
Alexis Stephens of the on-line magazine Next City featured a recent interview with Stan Humphries, chief economist of Zillow, about the current climate of homeownership and rental housing in the US. In that interview Mr. Humphries indicated that the homeownership rate has been consistent, at slightly less than two-thirds, since the 1960s. For the third that rent, […]
THE PROJECT OR INITIATIVE The Coastal Transit Institute, established in 2008, aims to educate and advocate for enhanced public transportation, transit-oriented places, and livability in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, by virtue of the: • Establishment of connection corridors between municipalities • Providing multi-modal facilities within existing municipalities • Enhancing, creating, and building great places centered around these […]
On Monday, February 23, 2015, If You Were Mayor teamed up with the Coastal Conservation League, Charleston Moves, Historic Charleston Foundation, and the South Carolina Community Loan Fund to present a “Vision for Charleston: Priorities for the Next Mayoral Administration.” The forum, a bit like our website, turned agenda-setting on its head. Instead of inviting […]
Four of the city’s five declared mayoral candidates gathered at the Francis Marion hotel Monday. However, they didn’t speak at the forum; instead, they listened to citizens and civic leaders. WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 – Charleston News, Sports, Weather
Robert Caro in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, details how Mr. Moses, in Depression-era New York City, was able to create and lead a powerful matrix of public authorities tasked with infrastructure construction. Through these quasi-public agencies, Mr. Moses was able to circumvent the “power of the purse” assigned to public […]