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FOCUS, Palm: Where to start to fix flooding in Charleston County

By Fred Palm, special to Charleston Currents | The driver of future flooding or its prevention lies in Charleston County’s comprehensive land use and the county’s zoning code that is now undergoing review.

Charleston County’s Comprehensive Plan does NOT have water height, e.g., FLOODING, in the plan. Imagine doing a county plan without having looked at an inundation map, let alone defining a land use plan that will accommodate future floods. To continue to muddle through is other than the top-tier governance that we need now.

The next meeting of the countywide planning commission is October 9, 2017, 2 p.m. There, Charleston County can take immediate action in addressing flooding by crafting the comprehensive plan land use and zoning code to address the water issues.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/09/2017 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

PHOTO: The twelve years of service

Charleston County Council recognized veteran West Ashley council member Colleen Condon, center, for 12 years of service during her last meeting Dec. 15 on the governing board.

by Charleston Currents · 12/19/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Photos

BRACK: On Sanford, unemployment, airport parking, bike lane and Trump

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | A bunch of headlines — some good, some not — scream out for some kind of commentary, so let’s dive right in.

Our congressman, Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, offered a self-serving opinion piece/lecture of Aug. 15 in The New York Times that urged his party’s presidential standard bearer, Donald Trump, to release his federal income tax returns.

He’s right, particularly to suggest that Trump’s “obstinacy” in releasing returns would have dramatic impacts in down-ballot elections and in future elections because others wouldn’t feel they had to be as transparent as candidates in the past.

by Andy Brack · 08/22/2016 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views

CALENDAR, Aug. 8+: From tax referendum vote to opera talks and shows

On the calendar for the week of Aug. 8, 2016 and beyond: County Council has a sales tax referendum vote and public hearing on Aug. 9; Historian Nic Butler will lecture on early opera in colonial Charleston on Aug. 10 and 13; The county parks will host a sprint triathlon on Aug. 14; two shows and more.

by Charleston Currents · 08/08/2016 · Comments are Disabled · calendar