Horry County voters must reply one native query on November’s poll. What’s it?

This November, Horry County voters will solely have one native query to reply on the poll.

And it’s about roads and taxes.

On the final web page of the poll, voters will probably be requested to approve or vote towards Trip IV, a particular use 1% tax that may accumulate cash for a prolonged checklist of highway initiatives to be accomplished.

In whole, the referendum asks for the particular use gross sales to be carried out for the subsequent 25 years or till the county collects $6,350,000,000, whichever comes first.

This poll query is the fourth time that Horry County voters have been confronted with whether or not or to not approve the particular gross sales tax for highway work.

Beforehand, voters have efficiently handed Trip I, Trip II and Trip III.

This time round, one of the talked about development initiatives on this a part of South Carolina, Interstate 73, is listed as one of many initiatives that Trip IV would fund if it’s handed.

Earlier this 12 months, county commissioners voted in council conferences so as to add the proposed I-73 path to the county’s GIS map.

Along with finishing the unfinished Trip III development initiatives for an estimated $150,000,000, Horry County lists an extra 22 particular highway development initiatives and enhancing public transportation and paving dust roads on their checklist of what the Trip IV cash could be spent on.

The precise initiatives listed on the county’s Ride IV web page include:

• Widening East Cox Ferry Highway to 4-lanes with flip lanes at intersections (SC Hwy 90 to SC Hwy 544)

• Widening SC Hwy 90 to 4-lanes with flip lanes at intersections (East Cox Ferry Highway to US Hwy 17)

• Developing a brand new connection from Sandridge Highway to Robert Edge Parkway at site visitors sign, together with multimodal services

• Developing new entry from US Hwy 17 to Madison Drive together with obligatory enhancements on Madison Drive

• Changing the Barefoot Touchdown Swing Bridge and approaches over Intracoastal Waterway

• Widening the highway to accommodate twin left flip lanes at 46^th Avenue South in direction of Barefoot Resort Bridge Highway and 48^th Avenue South in each instructions (46^th Avenue South to Ocean Creek) at US Hwy 17 in Windy Hill

• Widening River Oaks Drive

• Constructing a cloverleaf ramp from Robert Grissom Parkway Southbound to US Hwy 17 Bypass Northbound

• Widening thirty eighth Ave North

• Widening Seaboard Avenue between US Hwy 501 and Mr. Joe White Avenue; together with multimodal services between the intersections of Mr. Joe White Avenue and Oak Forest Lane

• Enhancing US Hwy 17 Enterprise from Farrow Parkway to 31^st Avenue North

• Widening Huge Block Highway

• Offering a monetary backstop for Horry County Hospitality Tasks, together with SC Hwy 31 Interchange at Augusta Plantation / Revolutionary Struggle Means and Backyard Metropolis Resiliency Undertaking

• Extending SC Hwy 22, together with environmental mitigation and development of a brand new freeway from US Hwy 501 (close to Aynor) to Surfside / Murrells Inlet space

• Developing a brand new freeway throughout Waccamaw River close to Conway. The ultimate location is pending a future research

• Widening Cultra Highway

• Enhancing present Hardwick highway together with intersection enhancements on US Hwy 501 and SC Hwy 319 to help new Horry County Multi-Use Sports activities & Leisure Advanced (together with multimodal services)

• Developing an acceleration lane on US Hwy 501 at SC Hwy 319

• Connecting I-73 from SC Hwy 22 to Marion County line (native match funding)

• Widening US Hwy 701 to 4-lanes with flip lanes at intersections

• Widening US Hwy 701 to 4-lanes with flip lanes at intersections. From SC Hwy 9 Bypass to North Carolina State Line

If Trip IV is permitted by voters this November, the gross sales tax program, which Horry County refers to as a ‘transportation tax,’ would go into impact on Could 1, 2025, following the finished assortment for Trip III.