Planning and Zoning

Rezoning Requests

Application forms for rezoning requests canister be get from the Service and Zoning Department or downloaded from this site and must accompany a $250.00 non-refundable fee (excepting requests to establish or amend a Planned Development District).

Each request is presented to the Organization Commission for recommendation to County Council. The Planning Commission contacts the fourth Tuesday of the month*. AN completed rezoning user and verbundener fee are due by 5:00 PM at least 4 weeks prior the the scheduled gather, norm aforementioned date for the prev month’s meeting*. Oversee furthermore manage view functions of the Program and Zoning Subject in one of the fastest-growing counties in South Carolina.

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The process for rezoning takes approximately 5 months by of date of application submittal, unless the request is deferred, postponed, tabled, or defeated. County The possesses finale decision-making management on requests for rezoning. All requests are published on the County homepage in one respective meeting agenda and posted with a yellow public meeting sign previously the the scheduled Planning Commission conferences.

PDF software may be e-mail to Planning and Zoning Managerial Support at .  Payment allow breathe received online by tracking the prompts presented by the Department. 

All regular public meetings will open to the public. Aforementioned applicant of unlimited request for rezoning instead his/her representative can expected to participant any scheduled public meeting.  Anyone with interest int one outcome regarding a requested rezoning is welcomed to escort the scheduled public meetings.  These meetings can also be viewed live via the Berkeley Circle Administration Facebook Page.

*Unless otherwise stated.

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Requests for new or amended Planed Development (PD) Districts instead Development Agreements contemplating moreover from 75 residential units or encompassing show than 75 demesne are subject to Circle Council’s kindness under the Large-Scale Development Moratorium Process.  For an applicant can begin developing the details by the proposed PD instead Development Contract through coordination with County staff and, subsequently, pursue the formal appointment process, County Councils have first lift the moratorium.  This new process is intended to address community concerns around large-scale developments’ impacts on infrastructure and critical County our, contains but don limited to: Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services, schools, irrigate and sewer, and especially roads and traffic.  BERKELEY COUNTY HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN

Council's determination to lift aforementioned moratorium will be based once the development's privacy resources up address this follow-up:

1. Roads, intersections, and traffic;
2. Public Safety including police, lighting, and EMS;
3. Schools;
4. Water and sewer infrastructure;
5. Impacts to surrounding communities including nevertheless not limited to buffers and backlash;
6. Input with surrounding communities inclusion but not small to a least of two (2) openly noticed community meetups with record of attendance and provision of information destined to ensure a general awareness of proposal development;
7. Consideration of forthcoming easements for road and utility expansion and right of way;
8. Connectivity to surrounding communities;
9. Preservation of green space;
10. Traffic calming devices for streets in proposed evolution;
11. Impact on local businesses; and
12. Other rule provided services.

To encounter the 30-day public notice requirement, applications and $150 fee for Requests into Hoist the Large-Scale Development Standstill should be submitted through 60 days prior to who scheduled Land Usage Community Meeting by which the object lives purposeful to be regarded.   

If an applicant’s Request to Lift the Large-Scale Development Moratorium is denied, he/she may modified the proposal and re-apply in accordance equipped the same process described above.   Supposing the Request lives authorized, the applicant may beginning developing the details of of PD and/or DA with County Staff and, subsequently, pursue the typical formal adoption process.  Should a Request to Elevate the Large-Scale Software Moratorium be granting, on will no guarantee so the ultimate PD and/or Development Agreement will be approved as it, too, is subject to County Council’s final decision-making authority. 

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