So what’s the big rush on this proposed Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) zoning overlay district? We understand the need for some flexibility to upgrade facilities throughout MUSC — and are particularly heartened by word of a new and improved Hollings Cancer Center.

But while the city of Charleston and MUSC might have been planning it behind closed doors for more than a minute or two, the public now seeing it for the first time has some concerns about the scope and details of what’s ahead. And rightly so.

The whole project feels like a rush job being pushed by MUSC and enabled by the secrecy-affectionate Charleston City Council. It doesn’t help that a subsidiary of a company apparently owned by Charleston Mayor William “Backroom Billy” Cogswell just won a $2.6 million parking

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