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Growth Impact Action Committee:

Horry County and South Carolina

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2010                      4/1/10

What Now on Growth's Fiscal Impact  2/18/09
GIAC Visions 1/26/09
How to be Effective
Horry County PRIDE
Envision 2025 Comp Plan 10/9/07
Imperative Horry County Ordinances 8/30/07
Priority Investment Act 5/26/07
Golf Course Rezoning Proposals 3/14/07
Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance, etc. 11/25/06
The "Takings Issue" 8/22/06
Home Rule When Allowed 10/9/05
GIAC Position

 

GIAC Web Site Link Menu Collection/Explanation

11/20/08 Update: Included the tardily added Nation/World and Features link menus to Menus for Nation/World, Features, Horry County, South Carolina Related, References Links on the bottom right of this page.

The Growth Impact Action Committee link menu on the left of every page on this Web site assuredly links you to the most current related targeted information. The Nation/World, Features, Horry County, South Carolina and Reference link menus starting on the top right of George's Daily page and the bottom right of this page assuredly link you to the most current related targeted information.

Scroll down or select from the menu immediately below for details on the information provided via the link menus and the link menus other than those on the left.

Details on information provided in the Growth Impact Action Committee menu on the left
Details on information provided in Horry County and South Carolina menus
Further details on Horry County and South Carolina menus
Details on information provided in References menu
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Details on information provided in the Growth Impact Action Committee menu

Growth Impact Action Committee
To Gather Data on or to Do This Click the Link Below

Contact Us: The GIAC webmaster or to get on the GIAC email list for significant GIAC update alerts

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Horry County Direct Information on Voting District/Precinct Nos.

(or 915-5440)

Horry County Voter Registration
Georgetown County government information (or 545-3339 for District/Precinct Numbers) Georgetown County Government

What we can do and where we are at as to growth's fiscal impact in Horry County on 9/11/08

  • Vote for only those Horry County council people who insist that the proportionate share of the costs of the public facilities, including public schools, required by new developments are paid by the new developments that require them, rather than the rest of us.

  • Press for close cooperation between the Horry County council and the Horry County board of education.

  • Press for cooperation between Horry County, the BB&T Center for Economic and Community Development and others to arrive at mutually agreed fiscal impact estimates.

  • Choose not to vote approval of new school bonds or taxes of any kind for public school construction or expansion that supports new development unless there are agreements in place so that the development will pay for its proportionate share of the public school facilities it requires. *

  • Press for the S.C. General Assembly to have it include public school facilities in the impact fee statute. But as it has ignored all previous pleas to change the statute, Horry County voters should focus their efforts on what Horry County government can do within current S.C. law.

What Now on Growth's Fiscal Impact  9/11/08
What to Do

Growth's Public School Fiscal

  Impacts -- All Important

Studies and Models of Growth's  

  Fiscal Impact

Economic Studies

Links to Detailed Discussions 

  and Statute Texts  

Councilperson's Votes/Records  

   on Growth's Fiscal Impacts

       

        Links: (With further information, thinking has evolved since this Web site began in early 2002 so some of the earlier comments are outdated. But the background details available in these links help broaden the picture.)

        ■ Carolina Station 8/11/08

        ■ Getting Developments to Pay for their             Public School Needs 6/23/08

        ■ S.C. Residential Improvement District   

            Act (Statute text)  6/7/08

        ■ Residential Improvement District

            Bill  6/6/08

        ■ Overall: Methods to Make Developments             Pay Their Own Way  6/6/08

        ■ Public Works Districts and Putting it all            Together 6/6/08

        ■ County Public Works Improvement Act            (Statute text)

        ■ Growth Management Tools 6/6/08

        ■ Impact Fees 3/13/08 (Items back to        

           10/4/04)

        ■ S.C. Development Impact Fee Act  

          (Statute text -- scroll down to 6-1-910 )

        ■ Horry County Tischler Software 12/1/07

Growth Impact Management Tools As Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance, etc. 11/25/06
Horry County PRIDE Organization Information Horry County PRIDE
Information concerning "Envision 2025," the comprehensive plan in development in 2007 Envision 2025 Comp Plan 10/9/07

S. C. Priority Assessment Act

- applicable to comprehensive plans

Priority Investment Act 5/26/07
Ordinances that Horry County Needs to Require County Council to Enact Imperative Horry County Ordinances 8/30/07
The true legalities surrounding "Takings" The "Takings Issue" 8/22/06
Golf Course Rezoning Proposals Golf Course Rezoning Proposals 3/14/07
Study committee and overall legislature e-mail addresses S.C. Legislature Study Committee member and legislature e-mail addresses 11/03/05
S.C. Home Rule Home Rule When Allowed 10/9/05

Community Alerts which cry out for community action, candidates' forums, special meetings

Meeting Alerts and Reports

GIAC Visions

GIAC Visions for Horry County 8/30/07

Visions for Horry County Council
Visions for S.C. Legislature
Visions Progress -- Horry County Council
Visions Progress -- S.C. Legislature
Information on  GIAC Views

GIAC Position

Effective Action

How to be Effective 9/12/08

Ways to Influence Change
General Information Sources and Public Meeting Schedules
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      Commission

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        (Horry County)

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        (Horry County)

        S.C. Legislature Property Tax    

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Road map for the Growth Impact Action Committee Part of the overall GIAC Web site Growth Impact Action Committee
A Citizens Lobby for Infrastructure and Natural Resources Horry County PRIDE
Little River Community Coalition Community Coalition of Little River
South Carolina Information: Voting District/Precinct Numbers by Street SC Voter Registration
Property/Taxes, Flood Plains, Registry of Deeds, Aerial Map . . Horry County Property Data
General Horry County Information such as Council Agendas, Minutes Horry County government
Horry County School Information Horry County Schools
Horry County Libraries -- Catalogs, etc. Horry County Libraries
State Legislative Information/Bills South Carolina State Legislative Information.
Property tax references on approaches & data on other states S.C. House Property Tax Committee Notebook
California 1978 Proposition 13, etc. California Property Tax Cap Experience
South Carolina Statutes South Carolina Code
South Carolina Constitution South Carolina Constitution 9/2/05
"Home Rule" for South Carolina Local Governments Home Rule 8/25/05

For Advisory Opinions, etc.

For Timely Financial Disclosures, Call (1-803-253-4192)

S. C. State Ethics Commission 6/5/06
South Carolina News South Carolina Google News
S.C. Hotline SC Hotline: Politics and Newspapers
     The Sun News      The Sun News
     M.B. Herald      M.B. Herald
     Horry Independent      Horry Independent
Annual Property Tax Cap Info Property Tax Cap Experience
Horry County Democrats Horry County Democrats
Horry County Republicans Horry County Republicans

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Further Explanation Details

.horrycounty.org/gateway/main.html to reach the Horry County Web site location that provides property information such as tax history, last county appraised property value for assessment (not fair market value as designated, at this writing), the registry of deeds, an interactive (center point of view, zoom in/ zoom out) composite aerial photograph of Horry County with flood plain information and zoning, and an interactive mapping based application locating school districts, council districts, precincts, etc. based on address, parcel id or street intersection.

For Horry County government information, click  Horry County government .  Be aware that it takes about three months for county ordinances to be codified and put on this site. So you may not be seeing the latest.

For the agenda on County Council meetings, after clicking  Horry County government, click the County Council link and then select the agenda for the date.   it is available on the site by 12:00 noon the Friday before a meeting (usually scheduled the second and third Tuesday each month). 

For the minutes on County Council meetings, follow a similar procedure after clicking  Horry County government  Note 2001 and 2002 archived minute link at the bottom of those for 2003. These are not posted until after they are approved at the succeeding County Council meeting.

For the agenda on Planning Commission meetings, after clicking  Horry County government, click Departments, on the new screen, pull down the menu by clicking the down arrow immediately to the right of the words "select department" and scrolling down till the word "Planning" appears.  Click on "Planning."  On the new screen, scroll down to the menu and click the desired date alongside "Agenda" in blue text.  Wait for Acrobat Reader to load the agenda text.

"The Planning Commission agenda is hard to read when it comes up on the Planning web page. The first thing I would suggest doing is clicking on the break out of frames button on the left side of the page located under the Horry County symbol. This will eliminate the index and make the page full screen. After this, when you open the agenda it will be sized at 44% ( this should show up on the lowest toolbar at the top of the page on the left hand side). If you increase the size to 100% it should be readable. Also, if you prefer to print the page the font size should be readable on the printed page."  -- Guidance as furnished by James Bischof Senior Planner.

To get contact information on Planning Commission members on the county site, click "Directory," "Boards and Commissions" and then "Planning Commission."  More detailed contact information may also be reached from this GIAC site (valid as of January 1, 2003) by clicking Effective Action  here or on the menu on the right and navigating to the third section of that page, "2003 Incumbent Contact Information."

For state information, click  South Carolina State Legislative Information. To get information on a particular bill once you are on the site, click Legislation, the top item on the menu on the left and when a new screen appears, type the top item under "Search Legislation by: that is "Bill, Act or Rat number."  Then in the blank rectangle to the right of "Enter Numbers," of the new screen that appears, type the bill number.

For state laws, click South Carolina Code,

For state political information including links to newspapers state-wide, click www.schotline.com

For information on an organization that is currently (2/7/05) promoting the "Put Parents in Charge" program, click South Carolinians for Responsible Government.

For information on California's experience with their 1978 Proposition 13 that put a cap on annual property tax increases and reassessed only when a property changed hands, click Property Tax Cap Experience.  For a discussion more directly applicable to us including the status of current South Carolina legislation in the legislature and in the courts, click Tax Caps & Fees to reach the corresponding page on this GIAC site.

Click http://www.horrydemocrats.org/ to view the Horry County Democratic Party web site.

Click http://www.horrycountyrepublicanparty.com/  to view the Horry County Republican Party web site.

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