1 CITY OF TRAVELERS REST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ...

CITY OF TRAVELERS REST
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
LAND USE ELEMENT
This element of the Travelers Rest
comprehensive plan includes several
important elements pertaining to land
use, including current land use, future
land use, and zoning.
Introduction
The importance of land uses in local
government planning can hardly be
understated. The location and amounts
of a particular land use—such as
residential, commercial, industrial, and
public—can have widespread effects on
traffic, aesthetics, noise, safety and other
quality of life concerns.
Three commonly addressed components
of the land use element are current land
use, future land use, and zoning. This
element looks at the status of each
feature and how they interact with each
other.
Current Land Use
Current land use, as the name implies,
suggests what the present use is on each
parcel of land. The Current Land Use
Map can be used to provide a wide range
of important data for the day-to-day
local planning, such as acres of vacant
land, or number of parcels being used for
industrial purposes.
The following map indicates current
land uses (as of January 2006) in the
City of Travelers Rest. The map was
compiled by using Greenville County
Real Property Services data, as well as
aerial photos.
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Current land use map (through January 2006)
Future Land Use
The Future Land Use Map acts as a
blueprint for how the community would
like to develop. It acts as a guide in
making land use decisions, ensuring that
a city develops in a manner that the
municipality would prefer. The Future
Land Use Map is shown at the end of
this section.
Zoning
Zoning is used to get from the current
land use map to the future land use map.
This is accomplished by the use of zones
that stipulate the type of uses that are
allowed on each parcel. By keeping
zoning consistent with the future land