HANAHAN, S.C.–The Hanahan Citizens Committee for New Elementary School is hosting a Community Information Meeting this Thursday, August 18 at Shield of Faith Church, 1519 Foster Creek Road at 6:30 p.m. to review traffic plan options for the Tanner-Foster Creek area elementary school.
Local area representatives, SC Senator Larry Grooms and SC Representative Jim Merrill, Berkeley County Councilman Josh Whitley, Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis and Chief Deputy Sheriff Mike Cochran, Hanahan Mayor ProTem Dan Owens, City Administrator John Cribb and Police Chief Dennis Turner will be in attendance, according to the organization.
The Hanahan Citizens Committee for New Elementary School will share information about the following during the meeting:
1. SC DOT fully supported roundabout VS the also approved less effective turn lanes with law enforcement options BCSD has to yet to choose
2. Status of egress from the school to North Rhett
3. Costs concerning these options – possible impact on school construction and possible construction delay.
According to Patricia Hanlon Eckstine, Chair of the Hanahan Citizens Committee for New Elementary School Berkeley County, Councilman Josh Whitley, who represents the Tanner-Foster Creek area in both Hanahan and Goose Creek, will provide an update on the county’s planned improvement to the Tanner Ford Boulevard-Foster Creek intersection funded from the Berkeley County one cent sales tax for road improvements.
Eckstine also stated that Sheriff Lewis and Chief Deputy Sheriff Cochran and Hanahan Mayor Pro Tem Owens, Administrator Cribb and Chief Turner will review their positions of the request by BCSD to place a law enforcement officer to control six lanes of traffic, three in each direction on Foster Creek Road, in addition to traffic from Williams Lane to and from the new school and from Song Sparrow Way.
All parents and residents in Hanahan and in Tanner and along Foster Creek Road in Hanahan and Goose Creek (new school attendance zone) are invited.
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