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Council adjusts transportation-sales-tax allocations, moves amended pie chart to 30-day public comment after 6–3 vote
Summary
After extensive debate over greenbelt, transit and peninsula seawall priorities, Charleston County Council amended the staff recommendation to 16% Greenbelt, 20% transit and 4% bike/ped and reallocated $75 million from the Seawall/Battery line, passing the motion 6–3 on roll call to send the revised allocation for 30 days of public comment.
Charleston County Council on Feb. 6 amended the staff recommendation for a proposed transportation sales tax and voted (6–3) to send the revised allocation to a 30-day public comment period.
Chair Honeycutt opened discussion and proposed changes to the staff pie chart; council members debated competing priorities — preserving rural and coastal land through Greenbelt programs versus boosting public transit and infrastructure investments on the peninsula. The central trade-off during the meeting was whether to reallocate money…
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