“There’s a lot that’s changed in this area in the last 30 years, and this doesn’t work with the current landscape.”
That’s the warning from environmental advocates who say a decades-old development agreement could reshape the Cainhoy Peninsula unless Charleston leaders step in.
Approved in 1996, the Cainhoy Planned Unit Development agreement between the City of Charleston and the property’s landowners allows for up to 18,000 residential units across the nearly 9,000-acre Cainhoy Peninsula, a largely undeveloped stretch of marsh, wetlands, and forest along the Wando River between Daniel Island and the Francis Marion National Forest…