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City of Charleston Committee on Public Works and Utilities 3/13/2023
B
B
D
B
D
Ready
two
quick
items:
I
wanted
to
report
Matt's
out
today,
but
Environmental
Services.
The
last
couple
weeks
we've
had
to
work
on
Fridays
due
to
vegetative,
increasing
trash,
which
is
normal
this
time
of
year
with
spring
cleaning
and
stuff,
but
it's
only
on
Fridays
and
we
are
getting
everything
collected.
So
I
wanted
to
report
that
if
you
have
any
issues
in
your
districts,
please
let
us
know
we'll
be
glad
to
follow
up
on
those
for
you.
D
A
D
This
year,
so
we're
really
happy
about
that
and
working
with
council
member
over
there
we're
probably
going
to
have
another
public
meeting
just
to
refresh
everybody's
memory
on
that
process.
But
we
hope
you
get
started
this
summer
and
doing
much
the
bulk
of
the
work
this
summer,
while
the
children
are
out
of
school,
so
we
won't
disrupt
the
traffic
as
much
as
possible,
but
I
just
wanted
to
report
those
two
things
to
everybody.
Oh.
D
E
E
So
again,
just
an
update
on
the
great
ordinance
I
did
want
to
make
a
very
important
early
note
on
the
version
that
was
provided
out,
I
think
there's.
There
was
some
confusion
in
drafting
on
how
the
city
defines
multi-family
versus
town
home
properties.
So
we
do
need
to
strike
out
the
one
remaining
location
where
it
talks
about
multi-family
restrictions.
The
intent
is
not
to
restrict
multi-family
buildings.
E
So
I
just
want
to
make
a
quick
clarification
that
that's
that's
a
restriction
that
we're
not
intending
to
implement
on
like
mixed
use,
buildings
or
apartment
buildings,
those
types
of
things,
okay,
so
heading
into
that
just
again,
very
very
brief
overview.
We
saw
this
at
the
council
Workshop,
but
this
came
out
of
the
a
lot
of
the
work
that
was
done
with
the
Dutch
style,
X
Charleston
Dale,
obviously
Mr
Morris
spoke
very
eloquently
on
this,
and
I
would
not
try
to
replicate
that
myself.
E
But,
basically,
you
know
the
history
is
on
the
slide
here.
Obviously,
we
had
the
Dutch
experts
and
a
team
of
International
Water
experts
come
in
and
one
of
the
one
of
the
target
areas
they
spoke
about
in
a
number
of
places
within
the
Dutch
dialogues
was
the
risk
of
adding
fill
in
areas
where
you
can
either
create
flooding
by
restricting
flow
push,
flooding
onto
neighboring
properties
and
then
also,
of
course,
damage
kind
of
future
resiliency
and
ecological
value
of
those
properties.
E
So
if
anyone
has
any
questions
on
that,
certainly
I'm
Taylor
I
can
chime
in,
but
I
think
we're
pretty
familiar
with
that
process.
To
date.
Again
we
talked
about
this
at
the
council
Workshop,
which
is
a
refresher
sorry,
this
in
2019
2020,
where
we
started
looking
at
restrictions
on
fill
Citywide,
we
had
some
draft
ordinances
that
were
proposed.
None
of
them
were
adopted.
E
We
did
in
the
2020
stormwater
design
standards
manual
address,
fill
within,
especially
larger
development
sites
or
more
complex
development
sites
showed
that
there
would
be
no
impact
of
flooding
from
the
use
of
that
fill,
but
we
did
not
significantly
regulate
small
individual
properties
with
that.
Maybe
it's
not
the
intent
of
how
the
manual
is
currently
set
up
or
phrased
on.
The
state
regulations
also
do
not
generally
regulate
properties
under
about
an
acre
in
size,
especially
for
single
family,
residential
and.
E
E
Thank
you
so
again:
20
2020
and
2021.
That's
when
Mr
Morris
and
I
started
reaching
out
with
key
stakeholders
talking
about
how
could
we
work
to
reduce
fill
impacts,
especially
in
higher
flood
risk
areas?
We
brought
about
a
stakeholder
work
group
through
the
spring
and
summer
of
2020-22,
including
a
number
of
City
staff
from
stormwater,
affordable
housing,
plane
preservations
still
be
sustainability,
resilience
and
sustainability.
E
Public
Services
talk
about
how
would
this
fit
within
the
current
city
regulatory
framework
and
what
negative
potential
consequences
would
we
want
to
write
the
regulation
to
avoid?
We
also
then
spoke
a
number
of
outside
groups,
including
the
home
builders,
the
Realtors
Coastal
conservation
league,
around
a
Law
Center,
historic
Charleston,
and
the
Metro
Chamber
of
Commerce
worked
through
putting
together
these
requirements,
gotten
generally
pretty
good
support.
We
heard
that
again
in
great
detail
from
the
groups
at
the
Council
Workshop,
which
was
in
November
of
2020-22,
took
that
back
drafted.
E
So,
just
again
brief
update
of
what
this
written
ordinance
does
it's
a
relatively
straight
forward
short
adjustment
to
our
existing
floodplain
management
work
within
chapter
27.
It
does
regulate
construction
of
new
single-family
Residential
Building
foundations.
It
does
not
require
modifications
to
existing
foundations
in
any
situations.
E
Where
again,
we
came
in
the
council,
Workshop
to
the
generally
I
think
well
supported
conclusion
to
go
with
100
Year
floodplain.
This
is
already
regulated
and
mapped
by
the
city.
It
works
in
our
existing
permitting
process.
So
it's
not
as
much
of
a
regulatory
burden
either
for
applicants
or
for
the
city
to
manage
it
generally,
our
highest
risk
area
for
tidal
flooding
and
much
of
our
rainfall
flooding.
E
Just
a
reminder
of
what
that
looks
like
in
different
parts
of
the
city,
you're.
Basically
looking
at
that
kind
of
darker
tan
color
in
the
peninsula,
so
you
can
see
the
meeting
in
King.
Street
are
kind
of
coming
out
of
that
area,
but
the
rest
of
the
peninsula
generally
being
in
that
area,
and,
as
you
start
to
look
in
surrounding
areas,
you
can
see
on
the
right.
What
you
see
for
cane
Hoy,
Daniel
Island,
what
you'd
see
for
John's
Island
on
the
left
or
James
Island
on
the
right.
E
So
certainly
significant
portions
of
the
city,
but
not
a
totality,
so
it
was
a
I
think
it
was
a
good
initial
area
of
what
we
should
regulate
high
risk
areas,
not
the
entirety
of
the
city
at
this
point
Howard
when
so
again,
single
family
detached
residential.
That's
like
an
a
stand-alone
single-family
home.
E
E
E
Of
it
yeah
absolutely
so,
there
were
a
couple
of
reasons
we
looked
at
that
customer
rodden
one
was
Planning
and
Zoning
to
some
extent.
I,
don't
certainly
want
to
speak
for
their
departments,
but
generally
had
some
commentary
that
typically
town
homes
are
looking
to
sort
of
fill
an
affordability
space
between
Standalone,
single
family
and
apartments,
so
that
that's
a
slightly
cheaper
method
for
construction
which
helps
keep
them
in
that
zone,
while
still
severely
limiting
the
amount
of
fill
that's
used.
E
And
then,
when
you're,
looking
at
part
of
the
reason
to
go
with
a
more
elevated
Foundation,
is
you
have
the
ability
to
raise
the
building
in
the
future
in
those
larger
multi-unit?
Townhomes
are
a
little
more
challenging
for
elevation
to
get
everybody
on
the
same
page
and
do
that
kind
of
construction.
So
there
are
also
some
some
comments
in
that
we're,
not
maybe
quite
as
heavily
weighed
about
the
attractiveness
of
an
elevated
town
home
that
that
was
one
concern
that
we
didn't
take
as
much
weight
into
that
an
elevated
slab
is
still
elevated.
G
Ultimately
considering
and
hopefully
passing
an
ordinance
that
you
know
doesn't
ban,
fill
and
build,
but
it
comes
about
as
close
as
you
can
in
a
reasonable
manner
to
doing
so
and
I
think
that's
an
accomplishment
we
can
all
be
proud
of.
I
just
want
to
make
sure
we're
keeping
everybody
in
the
loop
as
we
go
along.
F
I,
don't
really
have
any
questions
but
I
I
think
to
councilmember
Pell's
point
that
we
we
have
been
inclusive
throughout
getting
to
where
we've
we've
gotten
I've
gotten.
Numerous
compliments
from
our
friends
at
the
Chamber
of
Commerce
that
this
was
a
real
collaborative
effort
that
everyone
agrees.
This
is
a
reasonable
approach
to
move
forward.
So,
thanks
to
all
who
have
worked
on
it
and
I'd
like
to
see
us
move
it
forward.
H
You
know
I,
think
we've
discussed
this
thing
and
be
dishwashed
so
bad
that
I'm
glad
to
come
to
some
kind
of
resolution
on
it.
Quite
frankly,
I
mean
we
we've
gone
full
circle
on
this
thing,
I
mean
I
sat
in
those
workshops
we
had
when
it
came
to
the
stormwater
manual
man
I
can't
remember
that
was
that
seemed
like
100
years
ago
to
me
now,
but
you
know
it
was
very
technical
and
painstaking
staking
so
long
ago
it
was
Gary.
B
B
H
A
G
B
B
So,
under
this
ordinance
you
go
to
build
a
single
family
house,
you
don't
bring
in
any
dirt,
so
you
just
go
up
to
I,
think
we
have
15
and
a
half
free
board,
plus
two
or
whatever.
That
definition
is
so
you
get
a
tool
pull
of
about
15.5
and
that'll.
Be
your
entry
level
floor
under
this
ordinance?
How
does
that
work
so.
E
B
E
E
A
No
sir
Matt
did
a
great
job
of
explaining
this
again.
It
was
a.
It
was
a
process
with
the
very
stakeholders
and
they're
on
board.
I
informally
talked
with
them
about
this
over
the
last
couple
weeks,
once
the
ordinance
draft
was
had
been
developed,
so
they
are
still
on
board
and
that's
an
accomplishment
I
think
so.
B
He
did
does
do
a
good
job
of
listen
I.
This
has
been
an
audience
that
well
a
future
audience
that
process
that
started
out
with
people
talking
at
one
another,
and
now
it
looks
like
we
all
with
one
another
kind
of
moving
in
the
right
direction
and
councilman
shade
was
right.
I
mean
we
started
out
with
this
when
councilman
white
was
on
public
works
at
the
time
you
know.
So
it's
been
I,
don't
know,
maybe
half
a
decade
worth
of
work
in
this
one,
so
I'm
around
the
curb
feel
good
doing.