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Folly Beach comes of age: A short and recent legal history of the development of Folly Beach (part 3 of 3)
By Ben Peeples Turtle Bay During 2003 one of the biggest issues was the development on the Folly River near the existing Turtle Bay development. City Council spent a significant amount of time discussing the merits of Planned Development District Zoning. PDD Zoning allows a good bit of flexibility for the landowner and the... »
City Meetings
By Lauren Dean City Council Work Session: October 26 Items on the workshop agenda were discussion of the rules to post in rental houses and the traffic study recommendations. Both topics require more discussion before legislation is enacted. Posting the rules Posting of rules in rental houses was part of an ordinance passed last... »
City meetings
By Lauren Dean City Council: October 12 Special Meeting A special meeting was called by three Council members to grant funding for FollyPalooza, a festival started three years ago by Councilman D.J. Rich to attract business to Folly Beach in the off-season and raise money to help residents suffering from cancer. A resolution to... »
City meetings
By Lauren Dean City Council: September 28 Follypalooza Councilman D.J. Rich appeared before City Council to ask permission to hold the third “Follypalooza” on October 23. He said it would necessitate the closing of Center Street only from Cooper to Erie Avenues. Rich said he hoped the festival, which benefits cancer patients on Folly... »
City meetings: September 2010
By Lauren Dean Planning Commission: September 13 There was a new face at the table – Karen McNamara Burkette, Councilman D.J. Rich’s new appointment to the Planning Commission – and a few missing faces. The meeting had been postponed one week because of Labor Day and Kirk Grant, Ken Holland and Sam Robinson were... »
City meetings
By Lauren Dean City Council: August 24 Good Neighbor Award Daniel Culpepper, James Dowdy, Sonny Miles, and Jack Thomas received the “Good Neighbor Award” for their prompt action in helping to put out a fire at the Sandbar Apartments. Appointments City Council reappointed John Kachmarsky as Municipal Court Judge, Been Peeples as City Attorney,... »
Planning commission and city council meetings
By Lauren Dean The new buzz phrase for the Planning Commission is “form-based codes.” According to Zoning Official Aaron Pope, City Council has asked the Planning Commission to come up with some definitive standards for new construction and ownership changes of businesses in the downtown commercial district, formerly referred to as C-1. Pope stressed... »
City government
City Council City Council did not meet on July 13 because that was Election Day. Their next regular meeting will be July 27 at 7:00 p.m. in Council chambers. Agenda items were to include ordinances amending the current rules for dogs on the beach, requiring non-residents to purchase a license tag for pets they... »
City Council election on July 13
By Lauren Dean At 7:00 p.m. on July 13 it will all be over. Folly Beach residents will have chosen the City Council member who will represent them for the next two years. Either Susan Breslin or D.J. Rich will take the empty seat once occupied by Tim Goodwin and serve the remaining two... »
City Council Meeting – March 23, 2010
By Lauren Dean You know summer’s right around the corner when City Council spends half its meeting hearing requests from groups wanting to hold events on the beach. On March 23 Council heard requests for the third annual Army Wives Beach Party at which 250 guests are expected, the “Big Gay Beach Party” for... »
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