Following are the positions that the League of Women Voters of Hilton Head Island has adopted over the past several years. Each year we review these positions to confirm and/or update them. They can then serve as the basis for action.
LWVHHI STATEMENTS OF PUBLIC POLICY POSITIONS
For 2010-2011
I. Preservation and protection of wetlands.
II. The LWVHHI supports beach management projects that:
a. are for the public good rather than for the benefit of private property; b. are part of a regional beach management plan; c. are designed for the specific features of each locale; d. are carefully and professionally monitored over the long term; e. make use of re-nourishment methods first and employ hard structures only when nourishment alone is ineffective; f. include sand re-nourishment as an integral, ongoing part of any hard structure design; g. give consideration to requiring sponsors of hard-structure projects to demonstrate, in advance, the financial resources to pay for the detection and correction of any negative impacts that the project might have on down-drift beaches; h. require mitigation, re-design, or removal of hard structures that adversely affect nearby beaches; i. establish clear goals and quantitatively designed measures of their success.
III. Preservation and protection of Outstanding Resource Waters (formerly SAA waters), including opposition to marinas on such waters, and also the quality of other local
waterways
IV. Transportation:
A. Accommodation Tax (A-Tax) monies may be an appropriate source of funding for regional public transportation.
B. County Council should put a comprehensive transportation plan in place within a reasonable time.
V. Tax Increment Financing: Support of the concept of tax increment financing (TIF) for use on Hilton Head Island as one way to finance public projects on the island, although it is not a solution to all governmental financing problems
and should be used judiciously. The League believes that any future TIF programs for Hilton Head Island should pass the tests of: (a) being fiscally responsible, (b) providing funding only for needed public projects, and (c) complying with state law.
Issues or positions to monitor and study and act upon as needed:
I. Election process in Beaufort County: monitor redistricting and HAVA implementation.
II. Beachfront and waterway management
III. Education in Beaufort County, incuding post-secondary and early childhood through grade 12 levels and the school budget process
IV. Hilton Head Comprehensive Plan
V. Ward I Master Land Use Plan
VI. Beaufort County Regional Plans, including multi-jurisdictional regional plans, and implementation of the Southern Beaufort County Regional Plan
VII. Transportation
A. Opposition to runway expansion at the Hilton Head Airport.
VIII. Public Safety
IX. Home Rule
X. Tax Increment Financing (TIF) proposals
XI. Water and sewer service
© Copyright
League of Women Voters of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. All rights reserved.
![[LWV]](images/lwv76.gif)
