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Mayor outlines regional funding push (“CR 26”) and Army Corps resilience projects including Battery extension and stormwater grants
Summary
City leaders described a regional planning effort to combine transportation, resilience and housing priorities into a proposed funding package following the failed half‑cent sales tax. The Army Corps partnership, the Battery extension and recent stormwater grants were highlighted as near‑term priorities.
Mayor Cogswell told the Resilience Committee that the November half‑cent sales tax referendum’s failure left a “blank slate” for regional planning and funding. The mayor said the city is working with Charleston County and the Berkeley‑Charleston‑Dorchester Council of Governments (BCB‑COG) on an umbrella initiative currently described as “CR 26” (Charleston Region 26) to align traffic analysis, resiliency projects and housing priorities ahead of any future referendum.
“[The half‑cent sales tax] is dead. It is not coming back,” Mayor Cogswell said; he also explained staff estimates that a regionally coordinated package could raise roughly $6,000,000,000 over time when combined with state contributions, and that the county’s inventory of 22 priority road projects would account for about $2.5 billion of that total. The mayor stressed the need to present a unified, transparent set of…
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