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Another win for the St. Helena CPO

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Beaufort County Planning Commission unanimously recommends denying After a four-hour meeting last night, the Beaufort County Planning Commission unanimously recommended denying the application to remove Pine Island from the Cultural Protective Overlay, or CPO, to allow for developing a private gated community and golf resort. The Planning Commission cited the planning staff’s recommendations to deny the…

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Learning more about South Carolina’s plastic pollution

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

What’s in our waterways? While the best approach to reducing plastic pollution is to strengthen policies that will better help prevent different types of plastics from entering our waterways and littering the coastline, we can also take steps to remove plastic from our environment and collect data to help us learn what items are most abundant in our area. One opportunity to get involved in advocacy on the local level is participating…

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Ruling Signals Win for Transparency for Clean Water

Monday, May 5, 2025

This week, Conservation groups secured a legal victory for transparency and accountability, ensuring that decisions about large, dense subdivisions relying on septic systems are not made behind closed doors. The Circuit Court Judge issued an order in favor of the Coastal Conservation League and Charleston Waterkeeper that public notice of individual septic tank applications is necessary. The Judge ruled that public notice is needed for due process so that those impacted have the right to…

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GrowFood Carolina: Latest News

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April 2025 – Post & Courier: A small SC town lost its only grocery store. Now, federal cuts threaten some food that’s left. Read the story here   February 2025 – Mushroom Gathering: Sunday Supper See the photos January 2025 Word From The Warehouse Read the January 2025 newsletter here   January in the Warehouse In January 2025, photographer Gavin McIntyre stopped by the warehouse to document a day in the life…

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Post & Courier: GrowFood Carolina delivers produce to a Florence County food desert

Friday, April 18, 2025

In September, the community in Pamplico, South Carolina lost their only local access to fresh food. Earlier that month, the local IGA, the only grocery store within a 15-20-mile radius, gave a month’s notice to the community that they would be closing their doors. This has essentially created a food desert for the community, leaving over 5,000 families without access to fresh or local produce or food supplies for nearly 6…

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Pine Island Golf Resort plan reintroduced

Friday, April 11, 2025

Earlier this week, during multiple Beaufort County committee meetings, an attorney representing the Pine Island developers reintroduced plans for a golf resort on the Pine Island property on St. Helena Island. Yet again, the representative of Pine Island Property Holdings, LLC is requesting permission to remove Pine Island from St. Helena’s long-standing Cultural Protection Overlay (CPO) zoning. This latest proposal substantially mirrors the original proposal that was first introduced in 2022 and soundly rejected…

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Ask Jasper Council Council to support RP-10 zoning

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Nearly three years ago, Jasper County Council enacted a 9-month moratorium on development in an area along Highway 462. This bought time to protect the 4,400-acre Gregorie Neck property (pictured above!) at the headwaters of the Port Royal Sound, marking a monumental conservation win. The county’s moratorium, which was twice extended, also provided a window to craft new zoning regulations known as Rural Preservation-10 (RP-10) along…

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Honoring the vision of lost Lowcountry resilience leader

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dale Morris, Charleston’s former Chief Resilience Officer, friend of the Coastal Conservation League, and champion for our Lowcountry. His expertise and contributions will forever be present in conversations about what resilience means in Charleston. Dale came to the Lowcountry in 2019, charting a new era of how Charleston thinks about water, leveraging his extensive career in policy and drawing on international relationships as the co-creator…

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Updates on the Longleaf Development: Your Engagement Matters

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Last Thursday, the Town of Hollywood held a Q&A session to hear both concerns and hopes from residents regarding the future of the town. These meetings are meant to give the community an opportunity to weigh in on updates to the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinances to better regulate how the town addresses future growth and development. The community has been showing up to meetings and…

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Speak up for our sea turtles and shorebirds

Thursday, April 3, 2025

A proposed sandscraping project on the beach at Midway Inlet/South Litchfield could endanger sea turtles during nesting and hatching season and disturb migratory birds along the beach. The project would place up to 75,000 cubic yards of sand – about the equivalent of over 6,200 dump trucks – in front of the Peninsula Community up to two times over the next five years. These scraping events are proposed for August through October, during…

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