Councilman Ron Brinson – July 3, 2019
Happy Independence Day!
District 4 Updates
Our City’s Fourth of July Celebration ends at 9 p.m. Thursday evening with memorable fireworks salutes. Join us at The Riverfront Park, the old Navy base. Bring your lawn chairs. Beginning at 3 p.m., there will be food trucks aplenty, children’s activities and musical entertainment.
Our City’s police department will host a public “Roll Call” Thursday evening, July 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Farm at Wescott Amenities Center on Patriot Boulevard. And you’re invited. You’ll meet the men and women who patrol our streets and respond to our calls. Refreshments and some “prizes” will be available. This is an engaging program series NCPD is conducting in all sections of our city. See the “flyer” appended at the end of this newsletter. We appreciate The Farm at Wescott HOA hosting this. Hope to see you there.
Development plans for the property fronting Cedar Grove on Dorchester Road are taking shape. This three-part tract includes a 20-plus acre footprint currently zoned B-2 and two smaller plots zoned Office Neighborhood. All zoning is subject to the Dorchester Overlay District which restricts certain uses, such as gas stations. The owner/developer has discussed a Planned Development District format which would combine all three parcels into a plan that defines uses – and additional buffering and traffic flows. There will be plenty of public input as this goes before the Planning Commission and Councilman Kenny Skipper and I will encourage neighborhood meetings as the likely PDD application is formulated.
Road repaving schedule – Banks Construction Company has been awarded the contract for certain repaving projects, including repetitive pothole sections of Wescott Boulevard and Patriot Boulevard, and a paving repair on Windsor Hill Boulevard near Indigo Palms. We also can anticipate some “repair” projects such as the linear defects we see at certain intersections – Club Course and Patriot, and Windsor Hill Boulevard and Ashley Phosphate, as examples. All this work should be completed by October 1.
The Dorchester Road repaving has brought immediate improvements. The City’s mast arms for the Club Course/Netherby intersection signal lights have been ordered and S.C. Department of Transportation has indicated an installation schedule for early 2020. We are also working on a city plan to stripe the intersection for left turn emphasis and we have asked SCDOT to consider providing protected left turns with the signal lights.
Traffic Signals – McKewn and Coosaw Preserve – With Mayor Summey’s help, we’ve cobbled a finance plan for signals at these two Patriot Boulevard intersections. The mast arms are on order and traffic engineers will finalize design and traffic control formats. This $350,000 project should help noticeably during the school year congestions at the Joe Pye Elementary School. Also, a timetable announcement is pending for the linkage of Weber Boulevard, from Patriot to Palmetto Commerce Parkway. We are hopeful this work will begin by Labor Day.
Interested in the retail center on Palmetto Commerce Parkway? Here’s the Post and Courier story link which summarizes this interesting plan: https://www.postandcourier.com/business/real_estate/retail-center-planned-for-industry-laden-palmetto-commerce-park-in/article_53d612ce-9925-11e9-9a25-5bc6603c1597.html
Here’s a new video update of the Aquatics Center project…. we now project an opening in early January. The professional staff is busily designing operations that emphasize uses for students and competitive events and community access. I’ll keep everyone posted as we anticipate the opening of this special community facility.
https://www.facebook.com/NorthCharleston/videos/915867418756644/?v=915867418756644
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