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Town schedules district planning outreach and advances 12 LMO priority amendments
Summary
Planning Director Missy Lueck told the Gullah Geechee task force that the town will begin district-level public engagement this fall and advance 12 priority LMO (land management ordinance) amendments — with Planning Commission hearings in January and council readings expected Feb.–Mar. 2025.
Planning Director Missy Lueck told the task force on Oct. 14 that the town will begin public engagement for its eight planning districts this fall, with district-level meetings and online surveys planned between November and February.
"We will be advancing some public engagement," Lueck said, adding that task-force members will be invited to participate in those sessions and that staff will circulate links to the workshop slide decks.
The town is pursuing a two‑track code update: a set of 12 priority amendments to be accelerated, and a full LMO code overhaul to follow. Lueck listed the priority topics as construction management standards; sign regulations; tree protection; common open space; transportation impact analysis; major subdivision and development‑plan review; subdivision regulations; short‑term rentals; Northpointe public–private partnership zoning; single‑family home mass and scale; commercial structures mass and scale; and adaptive reuse of hotels and motels.
She said the priority amendments will be finalized in draft and brought to the Planning Commission for a public hearing in January, with council first and second readings anticipated in February and March. The larger code overhaul will proceed after district plans are completed and Lueck said the town aims to complete major code writing by mid‑2025 and to have the full project adopted by the end of calendar 2025.
Task force members asked whether the district plans would be advanced as separate council actions or bundled together. Lueck said the district plans will be produced as pull‑out chapters of an island master plan and that the council review process could take place one or two districts at a time, depending on scheduling and deliverables.
Lueck emphasized that the priority amendments were selected to address immediate community needs and that staff will hold a public engagement meeting on the priority amendments before the Planning Commission’s January hearing. She also committed to sending task‑force members direct links to the presentation materials posted on the town website.
The task force received the update for information; no formal vote on the LMO items was taken at the meeting.
