Briefs

Update series starts Monday

The year-long Charleston County Comprehensive Plan Update process will continue with a third and final series of public workshops on Monday and Tuesday.

Charleston County Government launched the scheduled 10-year update with the first series of public workshops in the fall of 2007; the second series of public workshops was held in February.

The county's theme for the update is "Guiding the future for a lasting Lowcountry."

There will be four locations for meetings during the third round of workshops to provide citizens from all areas of the region with an opportunity to share their ideas about land use characteristics.

They can also discuss strategies for all nine planning elements in the Comprehensive Plan Update — population, economy, natural resources, cultural resources, housing, community facilities, land use, transportation and priority investment.

The workshops will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. The two scheduled for Monday are:

--East Cooper Area, Wando High School, 1000 Warrior Way, Mount Pleasant.

--Central/Urban Area (including North Charleston, Charleston, West Ashley and James Island), Rutledge Memorial Baptist Church, 2014 Bees Ferry Road, Charleston.

The two workshops scheduled for Tuesday are:

--Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island (including Kiawah Island and Seabrook Island), St. John's High School, 1518 Main Road, Johns Island.

--West County/Edisto Island, Baptist Hill High School, 5117 Baptist Hill Road, Hollywood.

After the third round of workshops is held, a public hearing draft of the Comprehensive Plan Update will be prepared.

Visit the Charleston County Web site at www.charlestoncounty.org and click on the link to the Comprehensive Plan Update located at the bottom of the page for more information.