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Resident urges Laurens County to shield farms, criticizes ‘Brentwood’ subdivision process
Summary
At the Sept. 8 Laurens County Council meeting, resident Ethan Anderson urged stronger farmland protections—buffers, impact fees, larger lot minimums—and criticized a proposed ‘Brentwood’ subdivision he said advanced with limited public notice and without infrastructure studies.
Ethan Anderson, a Laurens County resident, told the county council on Sept. 8 that farmland in the county is at risk from outside developers who buy agricultural land and convert it into subdivisions "with no zoning control." Anderson cited South Carolina law (Title 46, Chapter 45), saying the right-to-farm framework recognizes farming as a protected use and argued the county should adopt "buffers, impact fees, and farmland preservation tools."
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