Dorchester County Council rezones parcel of land for new housing development [Video]

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) – Dorchester County Council voted Monday night in a third and final reading of a plan to rezone a 78-acre parcel of land.

Council members approved rezoning the land, located in St. George off of Sugar Hill Road, from agriculture residential to single-family residential.

Some community members attended the meeting to voice some of their concerns. One of them, Betty Walker Collins, a pastor at a nearby church, said her concerns included flood risks, traffic getting on and off Hwy 78, noise and safety with the lack of street lights.

“That’s one of our biggest concerns just don’t move in on us. What are you doing to help us…and to help our community and to improve our quality of life?” Collins says.

She says she wants to be the voice for the families that have lived there for decades and was let down following the decision.

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