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Planning Commission denies applicant's proposed hotel-to-housing conversion text amendment, urges staff coordination
Summary
The Planning Commission declined an applicant-drafted text amendment to allow adaptive reuse of hotels as market-rate multifamily units, citing concerns about affordability safeguards and scope; commissioners voted to deny the applicant proposal and encouraged coordination with the town's own draft adaptive-reuse language.
The Hilton Head Island Planning Commission voted to deny a privately drafted text amendment that would have allowed adaptive reuse of existing hotels and motels into multifamily residential units under a 1:1 room-to-unit conversion. The denial followed two hours of staff presentations, developer testimony and public comment.
Planning Director Missy Luik opened a wide-ranging introduction of ten priority Land Management Ordinance (LMO) amendments, saying the items were "introduction" material ahead of public hearings set for Feb. 19. "In this agenda item we are going to discuss introduction of 10 amendments to the land management ordinance," Luik told the commission.
Separately, the commission heard a formal text amendment application from Chris Breen of Blue Hour Housing to create an "adaptive reuse hotel/motel conversion" program that, as submitted, would permit a 1:1 conversion of existing guest…
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