Beaufort County is reorganizing its priorities for road projects to figure out how best to spend money from the 2006 sales tax increase while coping with the down economy.
The County Council approved a new priority list in February that puts emphasis on connectivity in Bluffton and improving traffic flow along U.S. 278. The new list comes out of the document county and municipal officials established four years ago to show voters what the 1-cent sales tax increase would be used for. Voters approved the tax, which was predicted to bring in $152 million. But the road projects also rely on impact fees charged on developers, a revenue stream that has slowed as the housing boom ended.
Aswe make our gift lists this season, I ask you to add one more to your list: the May River. Like a matriarch of a big family, the river has been the glue of our culture,...
