Charleston County Council considered a more than $1 million greenbelt-funding request from the Lowcountry Land Trust on November 5 to buy land for a proposed trail on Johns Island.
Where it would run.
The proposed route would connect Humbert Road and Old Pond Road through the island's interior. Buying the land now would preserve the corridor and set up a future walking and biking link between the two roads.
Greenbelt at work.
The county's greenbelt program protects open space, farmland and waterways, and trail corridors are part of that mission, giving residents a way to use the land the program preserves. As with other greenbelt purchases, the funding draws on the transportation sales tax that voters renewed on November 3.
The request moved before council this month. Watch council agendas for the outcome as the project works through the greenbelt process.