The Georgia residents of one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants are trying to stop zoning changes that they fear will force them to sell their land.

The new zoning law increased the maximum size of homes allowed in Hogg Hummock to 3,000 square feet of total enclosed space. The previous limit was 1,400 square feet of heated and air-conditioned ...

Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes A utility pole stands in the middle of a marsh at sunset on Sapelo Island, Ga., a Gullah-Geechee ...

Lifelong residents of a tiny Georgia island who are descended from slaves are pushing to give voters a chance to override local zoning changes that they say threaten one of the last Gullah-Geechee ...

The Sapelo property zoning voter referendum has been halted by a judge’s order, ending for now an attempt by the Gullah Geechee residents of the remote coastal Georgia island to repeal a year ...

Georgia Associated Press Sapelo Island's Gullah Geechee threatened due to zoning In a 3-2 vote, McIntosh County commissioners decided to change zoning code on coastal Georgia’s Sapelo Island.

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Attorneys suing a Georgia county over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a judge Tuesday ...

Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill this week that removes a significant restriction for drug treatment centers seeking to open in Georgia, a decades-old provision in Georgia’s zoning code that forced ...

Regardless, commissioners voted 3-2 to weaken zoning restrictions the county adopted nearly three decades ago with the stated intent to help Hogg Hummock’s 30 to 50 residents hold on to their land.

Nation Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes July 9, 2024 at 11:30 am ...