The Town of Mount Pleasant is launching a major public involvement and outreach initiative to encourage and promote engagement in the preparation of the Town’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan. Throughout the next year, there will be multiple opportunities for Mount Pleasant Planning Area’s residents and businesses to participate and share feedback and ideas about the future of the Town. This space will be our main avenue to communicate Comprehensive Plan updates and status on a regular basis. 
 

What’s a Comprehensive Plan?

A Comprehensive Plan is a local government’s guide for decision making. It is created by studying the existing conditions of the Town, debating preferred future alternatives and priorities, and identifying practical implementation strategies to help the Town reach its preferred future goals. There are nine required “elements” that every Comprehensive Plan must address – population, housing, economic development, community facilities, natural resources, cultural resources, land use, transportation, and priority investments. Thus, the Comprehensive Plan touches land development decisions, capital projects, and many other governmental decisions that might impact the future health of the Town. In South Carolina, communities are required to prepare new Comprehensive Plans every 10 years. Considering the tremendous growth that the area has experienced over the past several years, Town Council decided to move the process up a year, to help town government identify and address its greatest needs. 

What’s going on now 

At the Planning Commission meeting on December 19, 2019, they set a schedule for the commissions initial workshops on the Comprehensive Plan.  These dates are:

• January 9, 2019 – 11:00-1:00 pm – Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan Introduction
  • Overview of the draft plan as recommended by the Plan Forum
• January 16, 2019 – 11-1:00 pm – CANCELLED - Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan Introduction 2 – NOT NEEDED
• January 23, 2019 – 6:00 pm – Planning Commission “Town Hall” public input opportunity as part of regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting (PLEASE NOTE - This item is anticipated to be taken up around 6:00 pm, due to other agenda items)
• January 30, 2019 – 11-1:00 pm – Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan Workshop 1
  • Begin discussion of the draft Comprehensive Plan and input from 1/23/19.
• February 6, 2019 – 11-1:00 pm – Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan Workshop 2
  • Continue discussion of the draft Comprehensive Plan and input from 1/23/19.
• February 13, 2019 – 11-1:00 pm – TENTATIVE - Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan Workshop 3 – IF NEEDED
  • Continue discussion of the draft Comprehensive Plan and input from 1/23/19 - IF NEEDED.  Will confirm or cancel on February 6, 2019.
• February 20, 2019 – 5:00 pm – regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting
  • Continued discussion and/or potential recommendation to Town Council.

The Commission's daytime meetings on the Comprehensive Plan will be held in the Committee Room on the third floor of the Municipal Complex.  Their evening meetings will be held in Council Chambers.  All meetings are open to the public.