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Charleston County staff: Highway 41 project will require hundreds of rights-of-way, not mass property takings
Summary
County staff told the Finance Committee the Highway 41 improvement will affect about 172 tracts, require fee-simple acquisitions from roughly 95–100 parcels and temporary construction easements on about 100 parcels, with estimated right-of-way costs of about $11.5 million covered by the project budget.
Capital programs manager Alex Oziak told the Finance Committee that the Highway 41 improvement will affect 172 tracts and that the county is not conducting a mass property seizure. “That’s not the case,” Oziak said. “We’re offering fair market value compensation for any property we need to acquire out there as part of the Highway 41 project.”
Oziak said the county expects to acquire fee-simple right of way from roughly 95 to 100 tracts and to acquire temporary construction easements on about 100 tracts; some…
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