Macalloy developers want to stack containers five-high; neighbors object

Macalloy developers want North Charleston to approve a plan to allow containers to be stacked five-high on the cleaned-up, former industrial site on Shipyard Creek.

Neighbors are concerned not only about the visual blight but also the load capacity and noise on the former Superfund cleanup site on Pittsburg Avenue.

"We don't want to see containers stacked five-high," said Herbert Fraser-Rahim, a member of the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities that includes several neighborhoods, including Union Heights, Howard Heights and Windsor Place that abut the 135-acre, former hexavalent chromium-contaminated industrial site.

The alliance also wants to meet with someone from the Environmental Protection Agency. Site developers are trying to arrange a meeting to address any concerns.

"We are more than willing to help them understand what is going on," said Stuart Coleman of Clement, Crawford & Thornhill, of which developer Robert Clement III is a partner in Shipyard Creek Associates, which owns the site.

Read more in Tuesday's editions of The Post and Courier.