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Edgefield planning commission agrees to have Lander University perform impact-fee study
Summary
The Edgefield County Planning Commission voted to recommend selecting Lander University to perform an impact-fee study; the study will use local faculty and take several months and include stakeholder meetings.
The Edgefield County Planning Commission voted to recommend that Lander University perform the county’s impact-fee study, planning staff said Friday. The commission also amended its agenda to replace a request-for-proposals item with a direct recommendation to accept Lander’s proposal.
Planning staff told commissioners that Lander has agreed to lead the study and that the university will assign the dean of the College of Business plus two professors to supervise the project rather than delegating the work to graduate students. “It would save us money, and we have more local involvement than if we end up hiring a company from wherever they come from,” planning staff said. Staff said the project will include multiple stakeholder meetings open to the public and that the planning commission will be the primary stakeholder group.
The commission was told staff already provided Lander a copy of the RFP and that commissioners will later vote to accept Lander’s work product before it is forwarded as a recommendation to county council. Planning staff said the study will likely take about three to six months, and that staff (identified in the meeting as April and another planning staff member) will coordinate communications between Lander and commissioners.
At the meeting the commission moved to amend the agenda to remove the RFP item and substitute Lander’s proposal, then voted to approve recommending Lander University to county council. The motion to accept Lander’s proposal passed by voice vote; a roll-call tally was not specified in the transcript.
The commission did not adopt the study itself; selecting Lander means staff will work with the university and set a schedule, stakeholder list and public meetings. County council must still approve any ordinance changes that follow from the study.
Votes at a glance: the planning commission amended the agenda to substitute Lander University for the RFP item, then voted to approve Lander University as the recommended provider for the impact-fee study. The transcript records a voice vote in favor; no numeric tally was recorded.
