County Zoning Meeting 3 PM MONDAY April 4th
Mon, Apr 04
|Columbia
Please show up. People move to Richland County from other states to get away from the urban sprawl. We need a new plan that serves our communities.
Time & Location
Apr 04, 2022, 3:00 PM
Columbia, 2020 Hampton St, Columbia, SC 29204, USA
Guests
About the event
From what I understand, you can show up early to sign up to talk.
Gene Callahan Writes...
While Richland County is considering new zoning proposals, it is a good time to look at possible patterns of housing development. Clearly, people want to move to our area, and we need more housing. But large residential-only developments sprawling across the entire county are not the only way to go.
Taking their cue from the pioneering work of urbanist Jane Jacobs and architect Christopher Alexander, the new urbanist movement has made a case for why building scattered, dense villages is better than having sparser developments. (Columbia has its own new urbanist development, Harborside, which has demonstrated the attractiveness of this model: https://www.builderonline.com/builder-100/marketing-sales/new-urbanist-development-in-columbia-sc_o)
What are some of the benefits of having denser villages scattered through more rural countryside? For one thing, it can increase the sense of community: Because residents will meet each other…