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Council committee approves revised transportation-sales-tax allocations, sends plan for 30-day public comment
Summary
A council committee vote (5–4) approved a motion reallocating $75 million from a reduced battery-extension project into three $25 million priorities — North Charleston projects, Haygood Avenue improvements and transit implementation for a downtown route study — and directed staff to begin at least 30 days of public outreach. Public Works said outreach will include in-person meetings, an online survey and scientific polling.
Charleston County’s transportation-sales-tax special committee on an administrative motion approved reallocating $75 million freed from a scaled-back battery-extension project into three $25 million priorities and sent the revised draft to the public for at least 30 days of comment.
The motion — approved 5–4 on a roll call vote — moved $25 million to City of North Charleston priorities, $25 million to transit designated for implementation of a downtown route study, and $25 million to the Haygood Avenue improvement plan. The motion included offsets by reducing some intersection and pavement-management allocations and by trimming bike-and-ped funding while increasing the greenbelt allocation, and a later clerical correction clarified the net change to transit funding.
Why it matters: The vote reshapes how the county’s proposed transportation sales tax would spend a large block of discretionary funding, affecting roadway projects, transit…
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