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Just an FYI, not really a big deal or anything, starting on the first of the year they should be tearing down the Circle K on Harbison and the Subway and rebuilding the Circle K as one of the newer, bigger models with brick lined pumps. Hopefully the new design will ease traffic flow around that intersection too with people turning in and out.
I wonder why the Harbison Association doesn't simply encourage the entire development to be annexed into Columbia? There are nearly 2000 homes if I am not mistaken in Harbison and that doesn't include apartments. Seems like since it is a "neighborhood" it could be easily annexed rather than the piecemeal approach that has been occurring. Likely boost the city's population by at least 5,000....I suspect that people may be against it because you would be paying County Taxes, HOA and now City taxes which may be untenable for some....but they are nearly surrounded
I wonder why the Harbison Association doesn't simply encourage the entire development to be annexed into Columbia? There are nearly 2000 homes if I am not mistaken in Harbison and that doesn't include apartments. Seems like since it is a "neighborhood" it could be easily annexed rather than the piecemeal approach that has been occurring. Likely boost the city's population by at least 5,000....I suspect that people may be against it because you would be paying County Taxes, HOA and now City taxes which may be untenable for some....but they are nearly surrounded
I wish they’d pass something that said if your property is surrounded by a city limit it must be annexed. That would save costs and response times.
Seems like "donut holes" legislation has gotten introduced in the Legislature for the last couple of years but has gone nowhere. SC remains such an anti-urban state in spite of all of the urban growth that's occurring.
Seems like "donut holes" legislation has gotten introduced in the Legislature for the last couple of years but has gone nowhere. SC remains such an anti-urban state in spite of all of the urban growth that's occurring.
One would think they could put caveats on that such as if you are in a MSA or surrounded by a municipality of over a certain population that is providing XYZ municipal services to the affected residents and the donut hole is under x size.... Granted if I lived outside Mayesville or Eastover and they somehow surrounded me I may protest to high hell on being forced in.But in a Columbia Greenville Spartanburg Rock Hill etc it doesn't make much sense.
Notice I didn't say Charleston /North Charleston which is the reason why I believe such a law wil never pass. Many of the folks outside these cities and on the high end island communities don't want to be annexed and fight it tooth and nail which is why it will never get called to the floor for a vote in the state house. The other powerful lobby are SC Counties who don't want to have their political clout subsumed by their city council colleagues who will only grow more powerful as their boundaries expand. Throw in efforts by the likes of Mayor Benjamin to do creative financing with property taxes and you have a sizable block of opposition. I think the tide will turn only in Counties that become more urban and suburban. The rural blocks will resist as well. All SC Counties still have large swaths of rural areas that still have some clout around property rights and land use ... though it may be declining in a few places
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Predictions for coolest Columbia announcement of 2019?
A renovated Babcock building being home to a new hotel or residential development
The Kline site being developed into something close to the original plans
On the economic front, a big insurance or tech announcement with the jobs going downtown
Columbia Metropolitan Magazine (which I had never heard of) did what ended up being a real puff piece on Pastides, but it's interesting to see the way he perceives himself and the job he did over the past ten years. There's nothing new here, but it's worth a read if you have some spare time.
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Speaking of Harbison.....
