CCGC

Projects

The CCGC recently finished an eighteen-month study for the City and County of Greenville, South Carolina related to redevelopment initiatives for the Reedy River corridor. The CCGC was presented the 2002 Outstanding Planning Project award in the ultijurisdictional category by the South Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association for its work on the project.

Current projects include:

A survey of Land Evaluation and Site Assessment methods used by jjurisdictions nationwide, with New Mexico State University

A review of local land use planning techniques in South Carolina, for the Municipal Association of South Carolina, the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, and the South Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association

A Sustainable Universities project to improve signage and shelter for the Clemson University bus system

A research project funded by the South Carolina Department of Transportation studying the impacts of land use patterns on transportation and air quality

To learn more about each of these projects, click the links below.

Sprawl Seminar Series (precursor to the Clemson Sprawl Papers)

-Dr. Pat Layton, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources- "Tree Cover Loss and Air Pollution: The I-85 Story"

-Dr. Scott R. Templeton, Department of Applied Economics and Statistics - "Demographic, Economic, and Political Determinants of Land Development in the U.S."

-Dr. Bob Bainbridge, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture- "Assessing the Prospects of Sprawl in South Carolina"

Other Projects

Dr. Barry Nocks, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture -Initial Findings of a Growth Impact Study for Upstate South Carolina

The Reedy River Master Plan Project

The Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) Survey

A Review of Local Land Use Planning Survey (.doc)