Charleston County News Release

MEDIA CONTACT

Name:   Jennie Davis Flinn, Charleston County Public Information Officer

Phone: (843) 958-4012

E-mail: jflinn@charlestoncounty.org

Release Number: 3151

Date: August 19, 2010

View presentation: http://www.charlestoncounty.org/pdfs/PPW-09-02-10-Presentation.pdf

Requests Revisited for Proposed Private Construction and Demolition Waste Landfill at Highway 17 South

Requests will be considered by Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee on Thursday, Sept. 2

Charleston County Council will consider the following requests during its Planning and Public Works Committee meeting on Thursday, Sept. 2 at 4:15 p.m.: 

• A request from TRP, LLC to amend the Charleston County Comprehensive Plan to allow “waste-related uses” in the Rural Industrial Future Land Use Category; and
   

• A request from TRP, LLC to rezone property located at 8754 Savannah Highway to the Planned Development District to allow for a private construction and demolition (C&D) landfill. The proposed C&D landfill would accept only inert materials associated with construction, demolition and land clearing operations such as logs, vegetation, bricks, cardboard, glass, box springs and furniture. Types of waste that are not proposed to be accepted include, but are not limited to, oil filters, machine parts, hazardous and effluent waste, municipal solid waste and electronic equipment.

The Sept. 2 meeting is open to the public and will be held in County Council Chambers, located on the second floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building (4045 Bridge View Drive in North Charleston). For those who cannot attend the meeting, it will be streamed live online at www.charlestoncounty.org, will be available to watch online any time after the meeting, and will be shown on Comcast government channel 60 on Friday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m.

The recommendations of the Planning and Public Works Committee regarding these requests will be considered for first reading at the regular Council meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7. Three approved readings are required for the requests to receive final approval and become law. One disapproved reading is required for the requests to be denied. For more information on the requests or the Planning and Public Works Committee meeting, contact the Charleston County Zoning and Planning Department at (843) 202-7200.

The history of the requests is as follows:

December 15, 2008: Applicant originally submits the requests to Charleston County Government.
 

January 12, 2009: Requests heard by the Charleston County Planning Commission; Commission recommends to Charleston County Council that both requests be disapproved.
 

February 3, 2009: Charleston County Council holds a public hearing regarding the requests.
 

February 12, 2009: Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee recommends that the requests be postponed for up to 90 days; the recommendation to postpone is approved by County Council on February 17, 2009.
 

May 14, 2009: Requests are placed on Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee meeting agenda; however, prior to the meeting, County Council postpones the requests until further notice.
 

October 29, 2009: Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee schedules a second public hearing for the requests to take place on December 1, 2009, at Baptist Hill High School.
 

December 1, 2009: Charleston County Council holds a second public hearing for the requests in the Baptist Hill High School cafeteria.
 

December 3, 2009: Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee recommends that the requests be postponed to the December 17, 2009 meeting; the recommendation to postpone is approved by County Council on December 8, 2009.
 

December 15, 2009: The applicant asks that the requests be postponed. County Council approves the applicant’s request to postpone and the requests are removed from Council’s December 17, 2009 Planning and Public Works Committee meeting agenda.

A summary of the upcoming dates related to the requests is as follows:

• September 2, 2010: Charleston County Council’s Planning and Public Works Committee, which consists of all members of County Council, plans to discuss the requests at its regular meeting at 4:15 p.m. in the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building (4045 Bridge View Drive in North Charleston). NOTE – Residents should check online at www.charlestoncounty.org or call (843) 202-7200 prior to the meeting date to verify if the item is on the agenda.
   

• September 7, 2010: County Council could give the requests first reading at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Three approved readings are required for the requests to receive final approval and become law. One disapproved reading is required for the requests to be denied. NOTE – Residents should check online at www.charlestoncounty.org or call (843) 202-7200 prior to the meeting date to verify if the item is on the agenda.