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An Investigation of Sprawl Development and Its Effect on Transportation Planning: The Lower Savannah Region of Government
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2001-01-01
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Abstract:South Carolina is developing land four times the rate of its population growth, with almost all the development in towns and metropolitan areas and along interstates According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, South Carolina is losing about 107,000 acres of open space per year to development, the ninth highest rate in the nation. The State of South Carolina is in its embryonic stage of adopting “smart growth” strategies. The State in 1994 enacted the South Carolina Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act. The primary purpose of the act was to consolidate all existing planning laws into one and to give local governments the authority to adopt comprehensive plans to guide growth and development within their borders. A primary objective of this research project is to thoroughly examine the impact sprawl development has in the Lower Savannah Region and Orangeburg County specifically in relation to transportation planning. Normally sprawl development is defined as either being urban/suburban or rural. This research project focuses on rural sprawl development because the Lower Savannah Region consists of rural counties: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun and Orangeburg. The rural definition of sprawl development in the region involves land-use practices that allow large lot subdivisions (2-10 acres in size), auto dependent transportation, low-density residential land development, extensive use of wells and septic tanks and very little land-use controls (i.e. development standards, comprehensive plans, zoning or other growth management techniques). This research combines literature review and local government official responses to growth questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Tables, figures, references. 19p.
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