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Attorney says Pine Island downzoning would remove 100 homes and bring $3 million community investment
Summary
In a non-agenda public comment, real estate attorney Kevin Dukes told the Planning Commission a submitted plan would downzone Pine Island, permanently remove 100 residential units, preserve roughly 360 acres as open space and bring about $3 million in community facilities investment and an estimated $100 million in private investment.
Kevin Dukes, a real estate attorney with Harvey and Batty who said he represents interests in Beaufort County, addressed the commission during the non-agenda public-comment period to outline a submitted downzoning plan for a property commonly called Pine Island.
Dukes said the plan would permanently remove 100 residential units from the property, a reduction he described as 66 percent of the originally permitted units, and would preserve about 360 acres (roughly 82 percent) as permanent open space. He told commissioners the project would remove most remaining permitted docks along Village Creek, Eddings Creek and the Morgan River and eliminate more than one million square feet of impervious surface. Dukes said the project would include a $3,000,000 investment in a community and recreational facility on St. Helena Island, propose a continuing revenue stream to help fund that facility, and result in what he described as more than $100,000,000 in total investment and creation of 35 to 70 jobs on the island.
Dukes said the application and plan materials had been filed and distributed to the public and county council concurrently and that the proposal, in his view, aligned with the county's comprehensive-plan goals for rural, critical and green-space protection without requesting taxpayer dollars. He said the plan had been developed through multi-year community engagement on St. Helena and in the broader Beaufort community and that hard copies of the plan were available to planning staff and commissioners.
No formal agenda action occurred during Dukes's comment; he presented the plan summary and provided materials to staff for the record. The commission did not take action on the proposal during the meeting; Dukes indicated he had filed the application and would make materials available.
