Our Plan

• About Our Island

• What a Comprehensive Plan is and the required components

• The Our Future Initiative

• The seven Core Values derived from Our Vision

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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

1. CIP Process

2. Collaboration

3. Growth; Resilience

4. CIP Revenue

5. CIP Expenditures