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Residents urge county leaders to address rapid growth, healthcare shortages, burning practices and water quality
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment to press commissioners on development approval standards, a shortage of doctors and emergency services, uncontrolled debris burns by developers, and longstanding water-quality problems in older neighborhoods.
Multiple Brunswick County residents pressed the Board of Commissioners during the public comment period to address consequences of rapid population growth and development.
Shirley Sullivan told commissioners she had “to reschedule my cardiologist” and asked what the county was doing to remedy doctor and emergency‑care shortages. “Is it a good thing to be the fastest growing county in the state?” she asked, warning that growth without infrastructure strains services.
Other speakers urged stricter oversight of developer debris burns…
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