Horry County

The Horry County IMAGINE 2040 Comprehensive Plan outlines a framework to guide public decision-making and manage resources through the year 2040. It aims to sustain and enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors by fostering healthy and safe communities, preserving natural assets and rural heritage, and encouraging economic growth and diversification. Key focus areas include promoting community character, rural preservation, revitalization, healthy and livable communities, public safety, efficient community facilities, improved mobility and transportation, environmental sustainability, economic growth, and community engagement. The plan seeks to protect and strengthen the County's future.

The Horry County IMAGINE 2040 Comprehensive Plan acts as a framework to guide public decision-making, manage natural, cultural, economic, and fiscal resources, and plan for future growth through 2040. It emphasizes sustainable development, thoughtful community design, and efficient expansion of public infrastructure and services, while aiming to bring people closer to job centers through development and redevelopment. Key strategic pillars include promoting community character, preserving rural areas, supporting revitalization and infill development, fostering healthy and livable communities, ensuring public safety, enhancing community facilities and services, improving mobility and transportation, advancing environmental sustainability, driving economic growth, and encouraging community engagement. The plan seeks to define the County's future and address the challenges and opportunities presented by continued growth.

This plan outlines strategic initiatives to enhance public transit services. Key focus areas include optimizing workforce transportation with increased frequencies, new routes, and a vanpool program; developing dedicated senior services through on-demand shuttles and microtransit; and investing in capital improvements for buses, bus stops, and new operations and maintenance and passenger transfer facilities. These initiatives aim to better align transit availability with community needs, improve service efficiency, and upgrade essential infrastructure.

This document outlines the recommended transportation infrastructure projects for Horry County, to be funded by the RIDE 4 local sales and use tax program. Key initiatives include paving 200 miles of dirt roads, resurfacing 400 miles of existing roadways, implementing local intersection safety and capacity improvements, enhancing local transportation, and investing in mass transit. The plan also details numerous specific road widening, new construction, and interchange improvement projects, with an overall goal to significantly upgrade and expand the county's transportation network over a 25-year period, commencing in 2025.

This document outlines the 'RIDE 4 - Proposed Projects' initiative, detailing a comprehensive plan for infrastructure development. It encompasses various road improvements, including widenings, extensions, and bridge replacements, alongside enhancements for mass transit, intersection safety, and local transportation. The plan also addresses the paving of dirt roads and resurfacing of existing roadways, with estimated costs extending to 2035.