Our Plan

How a Community Vision Shaped the New Comprehensive Plan for Hilton Head Island

The 2020 to 2040 Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Adopted October 20, 2020


Contents

Welcome to Hilton Head Island!

  • About Our Island

Overview

  • What a Comprehensive Plan is and the required components

Our Vision

  • The Our Future Initiative

Our Core Values

  • The seven Core Values derived from Our Vision

Our Process

  • How we developed a comprehensive plan structured around a Community Vision and Core Values through community engagement

Our Plan Content and Structure

  • How the Comprehensive Plan Elements are organized around the Core Values

Welcome to Hilton Head Island!


Overview

What is a Comprehensive Plan

  • Policy and planning guiding document
  • Identifies visions and direction for how the community should grow, address change, and make progress
  • Used by staff to ground decision making and justification for planning efforts, policy, and projects
  • Used by elected and appointed officials to guide policy direction and initiatives

The State's Local Government Comprehensive Planning Enabling Act

  • Establishes that a 20-year plan for governance shall to be adopted by South Carolina municipalities
  • Rewrite required every 10 years with updates
  • Requires and defines the process for adoption and components to be included in the plan, including nine Elements
  • The Town added a Recreation Element to their Comprehensive Plan in 2005.

What is Our Plan

  • The Town of Hilton Head Island's proposed Comprehensive Plan for 2020-2040
  • Integration of a community-wide visioning initiative: Our Future
  • In progress since May 2019
  • Anticipated adoption in late October 2020


Our Vision


Our Core Values


Our Process


Community Engagement

Our Plan Work Group Work Plan


Work Group Phase 1: Brainstorming Activities


Recent Community Engagement for Parks + Recreation

Parks + Recreation Master Plan

Maintaining outreach and communication with the Island community is important as we continue engagement efforts to solicit input about the recommendations that are in Our Plan for parks and recreation.

The community has played a role in prioritizing the programming for three key park development projects and the recommendations for other improvements and park projects. The results from numerous engagement activities this past fall were approved by the Parks and Recreation Commission in January 2021.

  • Three virtual Town Hall Meetings were held in October 2020
  •  Two Open Park Days in November 2020
  • Online survey from mid October to late November
  • Newsletter updates weekly and continuing monthly in 2021

Parks + Recreation Master Plan Project Landing Page


Our Plan Structure and Content

Content

Front Matter

  • Acknowledgements, Content, and Executive Summary

Main Contents

  • Section 1.0, Our Purpose and Process
  • Section 2.0, Our Community
  • Section 3.0, Our Core Values: Seven Core Value Chapters
  • Section 4.0, Our *Parks + Recreation
  • Section 5.0, Our *Priority Investment

Reference Contents

  • Section 6.0, Definitions and Index
  • Section 7.0, Appendix

*Parks + Recreation and Priority Investment are the only elements that have standalone sections in Our Plan because they represent significant interest areas and investments falling within the Town’s jurisdiction and direct scope of work for the Island community.


Section 1.0, Our Plan and Process

The genesis of Our Plan and the Town's process to develop the plan, along with specifics about our community engagement and the plan's adoption timeline, are included in this section.

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Section 2.0, Our Community

This section presents the Elements. Incorporation of the Elements at this stage in Our Plan accomplishes several important objectives:

  1. Provides an overview and guide about the Island the Town with our Island history then existing conditions data organized by Element.
  2. Connects Our Plan to prior versions of the Comprehensive Plan so that data can be tracked from one version to the next.
  3. Strengthens the tie between the state regulations and Our Plan.
  4. Defines each element specifically for Hilton Head Island.

Section 3.0, Our Core Values

This section presents the Core Value chapters and a bulk of the goals, strategies, and tactics for Our Plan.

Each chapter includes:

  • Overview
  • Key Ideas
  • Goals (with keywords)
  • Strategies & Tactics
  • Elements Matrix

The Core Values and the Elements

Each Chapter has a matrix the cross-references the goals and strategies with the Elements to:

  1. Provide a snapshot of how each Core Value aligns with the Elements
  2. Further strengthen this correlation of the Core Values with the Elements
  3. Serve as a reference for searching the Core Values by Element

Excerpt from Our Plan Economy Chapter

Section 3.2, The Elements and Core Values presents the inverse relationship between the Elements and Core Values.

  • Provides a quick reference to how the Core Values address the Elements and to ensure the goals and strategies of Our Plan are searchable by Element. 
  • There is a page for each Element with a version of the wheel shown left, where the Core Value goals contributing to the specified Element are rendered in color.
  • Presents a visual representation of the extent to which the Core Values are distributed for each Element.
  • The goals contributing to each Element are then listed by goal number and keyword, with their corresponding related strategies. 

Excerpt from Our Plan Section 3.0


The Core Value Chapters


Section 4.0, Parks + Recreation

Excerpt from Our Plan

The purpose of Section 4.0 is to tie the needs assessment into the Our Plan and fill the role of the Recreation Element.

  • Parks and Recreation Task Group participated in the development of Section 4.0, including the goals and strategies
  • Presents an overview of the Island’s parks and recreation system infrastructure and programs with goals, strategies, and tactics
  • Includes a historic overview of the Town’s parks development
  • Includes the needs assessment Recommendations with Town Action Items

 

                            

  


Section 5.0, Our Priority Investment

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Priority Investment and the Core Values

Goal Keywords

1. CIP Process

2. Collaboration

3. Growth; Resilience

4. CIP Revenue

5. CIP Expenditures


Reference Sections


To the members of this community and the region for their contributions in meetings and education sessions,

To our citizens for their participations at public meetings, and

To Town staff from all departments for their input throughout the process...

Our Plan Staff Team

Our Plan was developed, planned, and prepared by the Town of Hilton Head Island Community Development Department

Jennifer B. Ray, Deputy Director of Community Development

Our Plan Project Supervisor

Taylor L. Ladd, Senior Planner, Our Plan Project Lead

Excellence Work Group and Parks + Recreation Staff Coordinator

Anne Cyran, Senior Planner

Environment Work Group and Infrastructure Work Group Staff Coordinator

Sheryse DuBose, Historic Neighborhoods Preservation Administrator

Inclusive Work Group Staff Coordinator 

Sheryse DuBose, Historic Neighborhoods Preservation

The 2020 to 2040 Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Adopted October 20, 2020

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Excerpt from Our Plan Economy Chapter

Excerpt from Our Plan Section 3.0

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Priority Investment and the Core Values