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Developer files Pine Island downzoning, pledges open-space, dock limits and community center funding
Summary
A developer submitted a downzoning application for the Pine Island property that would cut residential density and permitted docks, preserve hundreds of acres as open space and pledge initial funding for a Saint Helena community and recreation center.
Developer Kevin Dukes told the Beaufort County Community Services Committee on April 7 that he submitted a downzoning application for the property commonly known as Pine Island.
The filing, Dukes said, proposes a 66% reduction in residential density on the site — “the removal of a hundred homes from the landscape,” he said — a roughly 60% reduction in projected traffic impacts and preservation of 360 acres as permanent open space.
The application includes a proposed development agreement, Dukes said, intended to secure the obligations in the plan and to let the public and county council review the same documents at the…
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