Managing Our Rapid Growth

The Greenville metro area recently surpassed the 1 million resident milestone, and Spartanburg ranks as the third-fastest growing metro area nationwide. Our rapid growth has outpaced our infrastructure, causing traffic congestion, higher bills, and worn down roads.

But Courtney has a real plan to:

• Increase federal funding to invest in public transit and infrastructure for city bus riders, pedestrians, and cyclists as alternatives to driving to decrease traffic congestion.

• Invest in flood resilience and stormwater upgrades to protect homes and farmland from future natural disasters

• Increase federal funding to invest in upgraded electrical grid infrastructure to ease the current overload and bring down energy costs.

• Introduce a moratorium on building new AI data centers, and pass legislation to require operating centers to pay fully for their environmental impact to the community, cost to the power grid, and for any new infrastructure needed to power them.

• Expand Public Transit Coverage to underserved areas by partnering with employers and schools in these areas to promote new routes connecting more residents to jobs, schools, and medical care.

• Require for-profit power companies to invest a percentage of their profits into improving the power grid for customers.