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Now you’re being silly. There’s work to do to mitigate the effects of the tide and rain. I suspect Charleston will gradually adopt the canal method as needed, but that will be more than a century down the road.
The City of Charleston’s plan in the required rewriting of its codes is to build in higher spots while preserving wetlands, creating new water inlets, and raising the shoreline in strategic places. And on the upper peninsula and on Cainhoy Peninsula, there will be enough volume in new housing to change the metro’s center of gravity. BTW, Cainhoy is in the city of Charleston, but in Berkeley County, and it’s an area slated for residential construction of all types, but majority dense.
Even now, but especially from now on, when we talk about Berkeley County’s rapid population growth and big numbers added, we have to ask how much of that was Cainhoy/city of Charleston growth. That’s why ‘I don’t do’ counties like I do urban areas, metropolitan statistical areas, and cities proper.
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A Harvard law person disagrees with you. Assume she's an expert in climate change.
Most corporations talk about climate change all of the time. Climate change is supposed to increase flooding and hurricanes. Yet Charleston is attracting new companies.
Seems like it makes sense for businesses to locate away from coast in areas with higher elevation. But Charleston is blowing the rest of the state out the water.
If downtown Charleston goes underwater, Charleston will become the premiere scuba diving destination in the world. Lake Jocassee is popular for diving because a small town being in there. If the Harvard lawyer's depiction of Charleston as Confederate Disneyland is correct, it would become Confederate SeaWorld.
You'll have to live out in what are considered the suburbs now assuming they aren't underwater. The big box store area in N Charleston may serve as your new downtown.
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You’re at least a couple of centuries ahead of yourself. The peninsula won’t be underwater for a very, very longtime. Spots on the periphery and a few low-lying interior areas will someday give way to water as a permanent feature as opposed to a nuisance that future pumps (They’re coming.) will take care of.
It’s a misnomer to say the Charleston-North Charleston MSA is at risk of flooding as a whole. The higher elevations are fine for new construction. There is plenty of higher-elevation. It plays to an MSA’s advantage to have natural deterrents to continued sprawl. That way it’s more likely to end up looking like a city than a giant suburban slab.
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It will never be underwater unless there's a crazy earthquake that changes the land elevations significantly.
The Harvard law professor earned a BA at Yale and a law degree at Yale. She has no background in science. A person who tries to link race to climate has no credibility.
Charleston has had a population and job boom despite all the dire warnings about climate change.
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That way it’s more likely to end up looking like a city than a giant suburban slab.
Doesn't seem like most Americans have a problem with the suburbs. I don't get what makes King Street better than the town center in Mt Pleasant or similar suburban developments.
It is an asphalt road with narrow concrete sidewalks with ocassional palm tree and many stores that you see everywhere. If it was adjacent to a park like Forsyth Park in Savannah with the big trees with spanish moss and a quaint fountain, I could see your point. The town center in Mt Pleasant has an aesthetic closer to Forsyth Park than King Street.
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Doesn't seem like most Americans have a problem with the suburbs. I don't get what makes King Street better than the town center in Mt Pleasant or similar suburban developments.
It is an asphalt road with narrow concrete sidewalks with ocassional palm tree and many stores that you see everywhere. If it was adjacent to a park like Forsyth Park in Savannah with the big trees with spanish moss and a quaint fountain, I could see your point. The town center in Mt Pleasant has an aesthetic closer to Forsyth Park than King Street.
Town Center is a bunch of glorified strip malls. King Street is a more typical downtown where you've got businesses right on the road people actually drive on instead of being WAY off the road.
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