Over the past few months, the Lowcountry Livability PAC team has been pulling the machinery together to provide our supporters and activists timely information about local issues that affect the Charleston community.
We are deeply grateful for the generous contributions that have made this possible. This core support will allow us to track and report on the performance of our city and county council members, and to assist those members and candidates who are committed to preserving the integrity of the Charleston area now and in the future.
Between now and early September we intend to interview candidates, including incumbents, for the Charleston county council races in November. We will send you these interview results.
In the case of incumbents, we will provide you with voting records and summaries of members’ efforts to advance a livability agenda.
You probably know that the Charleston City Council and mayoral races are scheduled for November, 2018. We will send regular reports on livability discussions and efforts at the City between now and then, along with candidate profiles.
Specifically, we are following council discussions and votes on flooding, short term rentals, cruise ships, development, affordable housing, hotels, greenbelt funds, pedestrian and bicycle policies and infrastructure, public transit and other subjects that affect our quality of life and the long term viability of the region. We will report to you on these issues.
We want to emphasize that our role is specifically to advance these causes by providing information on local elected officials and candidates. We are fortunate to have a number of organizations in the region that provide policy analysis, issue advocacy, grassroots organizing and otherwise promote livability in every way except through electoral action. This is the narrow, but essential, niche the Lowcountry Livability Pac fills.
Although we are not formally affiliated with them, we will rely on these groups — including
Historic Charleston Foundation
Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit
and others — for context, substance and analysis on these issues, and we will complement, but not replace, their outreach and organizing efforts.
The Lowcountry Livability PAC team