Redevelopment Strategies

Chaplin / Mathews

Policies:

• Work with Hilton Head No. 1 PSD and property owners to extend sewer service to areas currently dependent on individual septic systems, providing the necessary TIF funding in a manner as approved by Town Council. Scheduling of sewer construction should be coordinated with road or pathway construction.
• Provide lighting along public pathways and at signalized intersections which is designed to illuminate the pathway or intersection without producing excess light, to improve pedestrian safety of these facilities and encourage use after dark, especially in areas frequented by tourists.
• Allow specific secondary roadways to be designated for on street parking to alleviate shortages created from the reconstruction of Mathews Drive on existing parking spaces which are located in the road right-of-way.
  

	Workers installing a sewer line. Expansion of the sewer system is crucial to the redevelopment of some areas within the Chaplin/Mathews area.
Pathway lighting can be done in a manner which will illuminate the pathway but not cause glare on adjacent properties or adjacent roads. There are many different designs of bollards than can be utilized.
Providing on-street parking on side streets can be a mechanism to increase parking in areas which will be impacted by road improvement projects, such as along Mathews Drive between Oak Park Lane and Power Alley.
While some of these side streets are already used for parking, formalizing the parking and the streetscape can improve conditions and encourage redevelopment.