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Existing County | Land Use

▪ Often the only place in a smaller city where multi-level parking structures may make sense and be financially
viable at some point.
▪ Often a focus area for infill and redevelopment activity within the community, along with nearby
neighborhoods and historic districts.

Lake City Park

Mixed Use often involves the most intensively developed area of a community in terms of the greatest coverage
of sites with building footprints and the least amount of private development area devoted to off-street surface
parking and landscaped open space. Instead, most parking is accommodated on-street and/or within public
parking areas or structures. This enables most streets and other public spaces to be framed by one- or multi-story
buildings with zero or minimal front setbacks along public sidewalks, creating “architectural enclosure” versus the
progressively more open feel in other character areas (Auto Urban, Suburban, etc.). These elements, along with a
predominance of mixed uses (some on upper floors above street-level uses), makes the Urban character area the
most conducive for pedestrian activity and interaction. Aside from master-planned “lifestyle centers” designed in
this manner, Urban character is typically found only in a traditional downtown. Florence County has an
opportunity, if desired, to make these types of communities if infrastructure needs can be met.

Florence County, SC | Comprehensive Plan pg. 119