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Staff outlines fee-in-lieu terms for Project Clean, council approves finance items

Charleston County Council · March 6, 2026
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Summary

A staff presenter told Charleston County Council that Project Clean would use a 20-year fee-in-lieu projected to yield $1.5 million in benefits and a fiscal benefit-to-cost ratio of 8:1; after questions about tax impacts the council approved the finance items by voice vote.

Charleston County Council approved finance directorate items after a staff presenter described proposed incentives for a project identified as "Project Clean".

A staff member said the package would provide a benefit of "$1,500,000 over 20 years," structured as a fee in lieu of taxes, and estimated a fiscal benefit-to-cost ratio of 8 to 1. The presenter said total taxes collected on the site over the past five years were $24,764 and…

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