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Track A: Best Practices - By Past TCSP Funding Recipients
Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester Region, SC: Development and Implementation of a Model Program Strategy to Link Transportation, Infrastructure and Land Use Planning (FY 1999)
Dorothy McFalls, Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester Council of Governments |
| The regional planning agency covering Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester, South Carolina received a $300,000 TCSP grant in FY1999. The grant is being used to undertake a two-year effort to promote coordination among the transportation, infrastructure, and land use planning processes and to engage innovative technologies, such as geographic information systems and satellite imagery, to promote efficient growth options in the region. The regional agency, in cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources and NASA's Mission to Earth, has already completed an analysis of the impacts of growth on land use between 1973 and 1994. The analysis showed that land development occurred at a rate six times greater than population growth. Aside from the cost of building new infrastructure, future development is complicated by the fact that much of the remaining undeveloped land is environmentally sensitive. Therefore, the vision for the project involves the development of a broad group of project partners, creation of a methodology to calculate environmental and infrastructure benefits and costs, and investigation of strategies and techniques to promote sustainable growth patterns.
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