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Council hears transportation update: Folly Road safety audit, municipal agreement and Johns Island realignment plan
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Summary
Council received a report from the transportation committee on proposed SCDOT Folly Road safety improvements requiring municipal agreements, a plan to realign Southwick Drive/Maybank Highway on Johns Island backed by a $782,000 escrow from Heritage Capital, and direction to staff on an e-bike regulatory ordinance.
Councilman Seekings reported March transportation committee meetings that advanced several transportation items for council review, including direction to staff on a proposed ordinance addressing classes of electric bicycles and mopeds and unanimous committee approval of a certificate of public convenience for Top Shelf Limousine Services LLC.
Seekings described an SCDOT-led Folly Road safety audit that breaks the corridor into segments and recommends medians and other safety treatments. He said SCDOT is seeking municipal agreements from the jurisdictions along the corridor and that the city must coordinate with the town of James Island for the project to move forward.
On Johns Island, Seekings outlined a proposed realignment of Southwick Drive with St. John's Woods Parkway at Maybank Highway to create a more efficient four-way intersection. He said Cooper Development would provide necessary property for the realignment and that Heritage Capital will place $782,000 in escrow (funds that otherwise would have paid for a signal) to pay for the realigned intersection; if the Cooper PUD does not proceed in three years, the city would use the escrow to signalize the existing intersection.
The committee also deferred consideration of a separate traffic agreement with Pulte Homes at Cane Slash River Road and Kimberlin Street to allow completion of a single traffic study and alignment of warrants.
Next steps: seek formal municipal agreement approval with SCDOT (pending James Island concurrence), return final MOU materials and maps to council and pending SCDOT approval, and continue the e-bike ordinance work with legal staff.
