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Questionnaire for Horry County Council Candidates

This is an opportunity for Horry County Council candidates to take their stands. 

To make your views known, please click  contact the GIAC web master, include "GIAC" in the subject line of your email, and  indicate your answers to the questions here.  You may wish to group your answers by writing  "my answers are 'yes' to all questions except [whatever], except my answers to question numbers [whatever] are 'no'.  I am not prepared to take a stand on the remainder.")  Depending on your background knowledge, you may find articles on impact fees on this website concerning impact fees informative and useful in responding to some of the questions in 1 through 3.

Without editing, other than putting your answers in tabular form, the GIAC web master will publish your responses and your clarifying comments, if any,  with other candidate responses in your campaign. 

When this questionnaire originated as an electronic form, you could type your comments in the following text area including the question number that you would have liked to clarify:  Please add your comments in an email, similarly.

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Your Name
County Council District
Verification Code (Please type any arbitrary string of letters and/or numbers so GIAC can verify your entry)
   
   
1. Do you favor impact fees?
2.a. Do you believe that a minimum impact fee on single family residential properties, other than those designated as affordable housing, in the unincorporated parts of Horry County of $750 is reasonable?
2.b What such minimum impact fee do you believe is reasonable.
2.c. Do you believe that the taxes on properties in the unincorporated parts of Horry County generally pay for the public facilities and services that they require?
2.d. Do you have data supporting this?
2.e. Source?
3.a. Do you believe population growth is economically advantageous to the overall local population?
3.b Can you cite supporting studies or statistics?
3.c. Source?
4. Do you believe that other property owners have rights, including aesthetic consideration, that should be protected when a property is planned for development?  
5. Do you believe there should be at least a four foot high opaque (to block automobile headlights) landscaped buffer between commercial and residential properties?
6. Do you believe there should be at least twenty-five feet deep landscaping between residential properties and commercial properties?
7. Do you believe that the heights of buildings should be restricted to no more than twice their distance from residential properties?
8. Do you believe that aesthetics including tree preservation, landscaping, and sign control are important considerations in county planning and rezoning decisions?   
9. How many feet minimum setback do you feel residential housing should be set back from the front of a lot?
10. How many feet do you feel residential buildings should be set back from each other?
11. What do you consider the maximum number of single family homes per acre should be -- excluding wetlands and road right of ways?
12.  Do you believe that a development should be approved if it causes the capacity of adjacent roads to exceed 100%?
13. Will you respect the positions of other district council persons and the wishes of the people they represent unless they are manifestly unfair or there are overall county issues involved?   
14.  Do you believe that areas in planned development districts should comply with the same heights, setbacks, and densities as correspondingly zoned districts (e.g. should residential areas in PDDs comply with the same restrictions as residential zoning?)
15.  Do you believe that such facilities as asphalt or concrete plants should be isolated from residential areas?
16. Do you believe that community appearance boards made up of residents abutting commercial areas should have approval rights on design features of the commercial areas, such as building and sign colors?

 

 

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