Thank you for your patience as East West Partners and the Daniel Island Town Association (DITA) have been working diligently to get a temporary trail from the Barfield Bridge to the Waterfront area reopened. A new temporary trail from the Barfield Bridge to the Waterfront area will be completed on Friday.
Because this is an active construction site, there may be additional short-term trail closures. We will work with all involved to make sure that more adequate notice can be provided in the future.
For the last three years, DITA has been working with East West Partners to get Phase 2 of the Waterfront Park trail connection from the South Dock to the Barfield Bridge designed and permitted. The design and permitting process has been complicated due to site conditions and the number of regulatory agencies involved in the review and permitting process.
Much of the Phase 2 trail is on private property owned by East West Partners, not DITA property. DITA has received a verbal agreement from East West Partners to enter into a perpetual public access agreement on their property for the Phase 2 trail when DITA completes the trail design and the construction plans receive all applicable approvals and permits. The funding for the trail will be a partnership between the Daniel Island Community Fund and East West Partners. Zero funding from Annual Property Owners’ Assessments will go towards this project.
We are hopeful that some resolution on the complicated permitting issues will occur this summer. In the interim, the new temporary trail that connects the Barfield Bridge to the Waterfront area will open later this week.
