= Supports HCP position = Does not support HCP position

1/3/08 Vote to defer further action on Carolina Station until February 7 meeting due to incomplete development plan and lack of traffic and storm water studies. HCP supported this action to defer.

absent

12/6/07 Vote on MacLeod Construction, Inc. requesting a County rezoning to build a concrete plant on Highway 905 in a residential area. HCP opposed this request.

did not vote

= Supports HCP position
= Does not support HCP position

1/3/08 Vote to defer further action on Carolina Station until February 7 meeting due to incomplete development plan and lack of traffic and storm water studies. HCP supported this action to defer.

EXPLANATION:
On 1/3/08 the Planning Commission voted unanimously to defer action for a month (February 7) on the Carolina Station development plan and rezoning request. The Commissioners want to see a completed development plan, the results of the traffic study, and the possible return of the solid waste facility to the center of the development before considering further action. A storm water study was also discussed and the developer, International Paper Realty, agreed to include it in the completed development plan.

COMMENT:
The Planning Commission is to be COMMENDED for their unanimous decision to defer action on the Carolina Station development due to incomplete information. Commissioners Graham, Riley, Todd, Hucks, and Buffum stated they could not support an incomplete plan and requested further information.

Commissioners Wilfong and Kauffmann, however, argued that International Paper Realty was being asked to do more for the County than any other developer and warned that the County was passing up the best offer it was likely to negotiate.

The Planning Commission staff, Janet Carter, Planning Director, and Carol Coleman, Assistant Planning Director, are to be COMMENDED for the staff’s position that although progress had been made, there were still deficiencies in the development plan and that the Planning Commission would lose any ability to address those deficiencies if they went ahead and voted it out.

The Cedar Branch Community adjacent to the proposed Carolina Station Develoment is to be COMMENDED for showing up en masse to express their strong opposition to the placement of a solid waste facility next to their community instead of its original placement in the center of the new development. An excellent example of effective political advocacy. Bravo Cedar Branch!

Vote 12/6/07 MacLeod Construction, Inc. requesting a County rezoning to build a concrete plant on Highway 905 in a residential area. Staff recommended APPROVAL.

EXPLANATION:
The Planning Commission voted 6-4* to send the rezoning request to County Council recommending DISAPPROVAL. The issue will now go to the County Council for 3 readings before Council members decide.

COMMENT:
Although we recognize that concrete plants are among the least noxious of industrial uses, historically in Horry County once one noxious industry is allowed in a residential area, elected officials tend to allow additional noxious industries (i.e., asphalt plants). The developers have 17 acres to build a two acre concrete plant which leaves plenty of land for unknown uses at this time.