Timeshares now a bad idea for Hilton Head
I read with dismay the recent article on the seven-building timeshare resort being approved by the Hilton Head Design Review Board. Really! After all the articles on the difficulty to obtain service personnel, traffic jams getting cars on and off the bridge, and the disruption to existing neighborhoods, the decision to build more timesharing properties seems incongruous at best.
Has the Design Board read the articles that predict that Hilton Head Island will have 23.6 percent of its homes at risk due to flooding caused by global warming? Has the Design Board listened to the millennial generation and their use of Airbnb?
First-year business students know that timesharing is a 20th century business model that is fading. If Hilton Head is to prosper, it needs to develop businesses that are less dependent upon “going to the beach” and high-density traffic.
Once again, it demonstrates that there is absolutely no vision and plan for this area. What is presented as a “market-driven” development plan just means developers build whatever they want, regardless of the longer-term consequences and implications.
Until a vision for the community is developed, we need to stop construction of large-scale residential and commercial properties.
Thomas Nickles
Bluffton
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