A hotel and mixed-use development slated for Maybank Highway on Johns Island has cleared a hurdle. Charleston City Council gave its first sign-off on zoning changes, a development agreement and a conceptual plan Aug. 20 that paves the way for the hospitality project that will include lodging accommodations and five restaurants.
It will undergo a second and final reading in early September. Summer travel season swell eases up but Charleston airport continues to set records The Charleston Planning Commission recently approved a rezoning request and a conceptual plan for the Jubilee project that will include a 75-unit hotel, 65 cottages, five restaurants and retail and office space, preserved wetlands, and community park and meeting spaces. Proposed by locally based New Leaf Builders, the 13-acre development will be built at 2935 Maybank Highway just west of River Road.
An architectural rendering shows the proposed hotel within the Jubilee development on Johns Island. Charleston City Councilman Jim McBride, who represents Johns Island, said that while he believes any new development in the area should be heavily scrutinized, in this case, the developer has done its homework. McBride said combining the five parcels under a development agreement gives the City Council oversight and say in how those properties are developed and reduces the zoning density.
"Rather than being five disjointed parcels of single-family and multifamily homes and business units, it will be developed into .