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Let's get back to how to keep John's Island from developing, because we already know that lack of interstate access is obviously not working out. Or was that covered by a GIF somewhere?
There's not too much to get worked up about when it comes to 526 these days. It has been completely defunded. I don't think it'll ever be built, but hypothetically, even if it did, most of you would be retired or dead. Maybe turn your attention to other transportation projects that have a snowball's chance?
There's not too much to get worked up about when it comes to 526 these days. It has been completely defunded. I don't think it'll ever be built, but hypothetically, even if it did, most of you would be retired or dead. Maybe turn your attention to other transportation projects that have a snowball's chance?
This is dead on. There is no money. It isn't really even being considered anymore.
The problem is that zoning is allowing a rural island and lifestyle to be destroyed in the name of "progress". Any idiot can rezone everything to allow 1/5 acre plots and stack crappy apartments on top of one another and allow rich people on Kiawah to reach their homes at interstate speeds. This "progress" is not the desire of the Johns Island residents.
Actually you have to have specific infrastructure to start dividing plots in smaller lots (ie- less than an acre or so.) So if you do not municipal or county sewer systems you will not see smaller lots.
In more rural setting instead of apartments being stacked you are more likely to have high density in the form of mobile home parks. If Johns Island wants to truly remain rural that is a possibility. But the irony of Johns Island is that no one moves there to be truly rural. If that was their goal they would move out to Ravenel or north past Awendaw. A lot of people want a decent sized lot/plot of land but also want close in proximity & those are many of the folks who choose Johns Island. The rest are typical suburbanites who weigh the drive from Johns Island against a drive from northern Mt Pleasant or Summerville as well as the schools/value/price for a possible house.
The cross-island expressway was also a totally different topic/idea than 526. It would make more sense to four lane one (or 3) of the main roads than to do an expressway. But that would be totally independent of 526 which would basically be an arc as it crossed the northwest portion of the island.
Not sure why all the memes were kept in but my gif showing the growth of the region was deleted for being off topic....
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