Zoning overlay for MUSC ‘Innovation District’ moves forward<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cYou know, we all have the same concerns,\u201d Cole said. \u201cI think the thing that this overlay allows is us to be more holistic in how we address them more effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cogswell noted that MUSC will be required to meet a city ordinance that mandates stormwater management improvements by 120%.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount of construction they\u2019ll be doing in this area, and what our stormwater ordinance requires, is not to make matters worse, but actually improve the stormwater runoff calculation,\u201d Cogswell said. \u201cSo they\u2019ll be helping to solve the problem, not make it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
One speaker accused the city of showing favoritism toward MUSC, a point council members and the mayor acknowledged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this was a developer coming in just to make more profit by going higher, yeah, we wouldn\u2019t allow that,\u201d Cogswell said. \u201cBut because it\u2019s for a world-class cancer facility, yeah, we should treat them differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cole added, \u201cWe\u2019re trying to build and bring world-class care to our citizens in a manner where you don\u2019t have to travel, and you know that you\u2019re getting the best care possible in your own home community. Isn\u2019t that worth something? Doesn\u2019t that require sometimes an exception to allow us to do exceptional things?\u201d<\/p>\n
The zoning framework does not remove city or public involvement in future development projects. The overlay would only apply to MUSC-owned properties. Any demolition requests would still go through the state Historic Preservation Office with public notice, and all new construction would require approval from the Board of Architectural Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) \u2014 The Medical University of South Carolina is one step closer to making its planned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-28944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}