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One Berkeley

Comprehensive Plan

Rich History. Bright Future.
One Berkeley.

Berkeley County is poised for its most important decade.

One Berkeley

Comprehensive Plan

Rich History. Bright Future. One Berkeley.

Berkeley County is poised for its most important decade.

01.

 

What is the

ONE BERKELEY

Comprehensive Plan?

As a comprehensive plan, One Berkeley provides a blueprint for the future. Developed by the Planning Commission through a public process, then adopted by County Council, One Berkeley documents the community’s vision and provides a roadmap to get there.

One Berkeley and other comp plans, as required by the State of South Carolina, are reviewed and validated every five years and fully updated every ten years. The 2010 Berkeley County Comprehensive Plan and the 2015 Review are available here.

What a Comp Plan Does & Doesn’t Do?

Comprehensive plans like ONE BERKELEY provide a framework of goals, along with policies and implementation strategies to achieve those goals. These are identified through a public process involving residents, businesses, and property owners. While the Plan provides goals and policy recommendations for how the County should develop in the future, it is not regulatory. Incorporated municipalities within the County have their own individual comprehensive plans.

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02.

MAP

& Key Elements

Berkeley County is roughly the size of Rhode Island (!). One Berkeley evaluated how specific areas have changed by segmenting the county into five geographic regions. These areas represent a combination of census tracts to assist in providing data that creates a picture of where changes had occurred and were projected.

ONE Berkeley addresses 10 key elements

  • Population
  • Housing
  • Economic Development
  • Natural Resources
  • Cultural Resources
  • Population
  • Housing
  • Economic Development
  • Natural Resources
  • Cultural Resources
  • Community Facilities
  • Transportation
  • Land Use
  • Priority Investments
  • Community Facilities
  • Transportation
  • Land Use
  • Priority Investments
  • Resiliency

03.

FRAMEWORK

Rich History. Bright Future.

ONE BERKELEY provided an opportunity to capture Berkeley County’s history, compare recent demographic trends to historical data, anticipate growth, and formulate a shared community vision for the county’s future.

Your Voice for the Future.

A shared community vision can only be developed through meaningful public participation. Voicing your thoughts as the county embarked on this community-wide conversation was a vital and valuable contribution to the County’s future.

04.

TIMELINE

Although every Comprehensive Plan addresses each of the nine elements, the planning process used is unique to each community. One Berkeley was developed using a Scenario Planning process, allowing the community to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of different plans for the future.

Phase I: Defining Existing Conditions

In late 2020, the One Berkeley Team began collecting data and information on changes in demographics and other conditions since 2010. More importantly, the team worked with agencies that provide critical public services and facilities to document current capacities and anticipated future needs.

Phase II: Establishing a Vision for the Future

In 2021, those ideas were compiled and analyzed. Participant priorities and development trends were compared with the capacity of existing and planned infrastructure, facilities, and services.
In early 2022, the public had an opportunity to compare how various scenarios would achieve the vision and goals that were identified earlier in the process. This input helped to inform a preferred vision for Berkeley County’s future.

Phase III: Plan Construction and Refinement

A draft plan integrating goals and strategies that can achieve the preferred vision identified in Phase II was prepared by the Planning Commission and presented to the public in 2023. Following a review period, the plan was presented to the County Council for its consideration and adoption.

05.

 

TEAM

With public input throughout the process, the Planning Commission guided development of the One Berkeley Comprehensive Plan. County Planners worked with the regional planning agency Berkeley-Charleston-Council of Governments and planning consultant City Explained, Inc. to facilitate the process, compiling data and ideas to develop and evaluate future county Growth Scenarios.