CHARLESTON — In the latest development in a near 20-year dispute, the city is offering $1 million to the local homeowners association for a large section of Longborough Park it hopes to convert for public use.
The Longborough Owner’s Association, which owns the property, will be responsible for subdividing a portion of it and transferring ownership of that land to Charleston in exchange for the money, said Malena Dinwoodie, the city’s real estate management director, at a Oct. 26 Committee on Real Estate meeting.
The city would acquire roughly 70 to 80 percent of the park, along with its crabbing dock.
“The property and the crabbing dock would be used as a public park that would be accessible to everybody,” Dinwoodie said.
Longborough and the park property are located on the eastern side of the Ashley River on the Charleston peninsula near the Wagner Terrace neighborhood.
As part of the $1 million, the city would give $25,000 in earnest money to the homeowner’s association, according to Dinwoodie. That money would be partially used for survey work, she said, which is required to have the critical line redrawn.
The homeowner’s association intends to have the line redrawn to built a ...