Residents of one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants fear zoning changes will force them to sell their land.
Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they fear will make them sell their land. Elected commissioners in Georgia's McIntosh County voted in September to weaken zoning restrictions that for decades helped protect Black residents of Hogg Hummock, a group of modest homes along dirt roads on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island.
Residents say that will lead to property tax increases that they won’t be able to afford, possibly forcing them to sell land their families have held for generations. County officials have argued the smaller size limit was not enough to accommodate a whole family. They said that limit also proved impossible to enforce. Hogg Hummock landowners are also fighting the rezoning in court. A judge dismissed the original lawsuit on technical grounds, but it has since been amended and refiled.
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