Myrtle Beach City Council to vote on 10-year plan. What to know

Myrtle Beach officials are looking to adopt the 2021 comprehensive plan for the city, which includes notes on growth, affordable housing and economic growth.

The city’s Planning and Zoning Department created a 10-year plan without residents’ involvement due to COVID-19, officials said.

But they plan to update it over the next few years to include input from residents, the Post and Courier reported.

The city department started working on the plan in May due to staffing issues and the pandemic, city Planner Kelly Mezzapelle told the newspaper. She added that staff would’ve started working on it in 2020.

“The plan will not be complete until we get the community involved, we get all of the city council and city staff involved,” Mayor Brenda Bethune said. “But it really needs to be the community’s plan.”

The last plan was approved in 2011. South Carolina cities must update them every 10 years per state law.

Priorities outlined in the plan include: on natural resources, cultural resources, community facilities, land use, transportation, population resilience and priority investment.

City council will vote on the plan on Dec. 14.