Hilton Head Island Growth Framework

The Growth Framework strategy includes the creation of a Growth Framework Map which is an overarching land-use plan that establishes a vision and identification of centers and edges. The Growth Framework Map will be a tool used to guide a sustainable future for Island investment.

Draft Growth Framework Map Series

The working draft of the Growth Framework Map is visually, a conceptual diagram identifying growth centers on the Island:

• Primary Centers: As the major focus areas for the District Planning process, these areas have the highest susceptibility to change based on their land use mix, age of buildings, accessibility, and other factors.
  • These are opportunity sites for redevelopment, revisioning, and consideration of new uses to meet future community needs and expectations.
• Secondary Centers: Are largely commercial sub-areas with susceptibility to change within the planning horizon.
  • Considered as potential locations for future mixed uses that are complementary and meet community needs.

Development outside of these growth centers will be more context sensitive. This includes the balance of residential neighborhoods, environmentally sensitive areas, or culturally/historically significant sites.

• Edges: Edge conditions are essentially transitions. They are transitions between properties, corridors, developments, districts, and primary or secondary centers.
  • Edge conditions are also adjacent to environmentally sensitive features, like the beaches, marshes, and wetlands.
  • This project intends to be mindful of edge conditions and will provide careful considerations to design and plan for healthy edge transitions.