Credit the Ridgeland Town Council and Beaufort County Council for soundly defeating development proposals that had stung the people like a Lowcountry fire ant.
On Sept. 18, Ridgeland Town Council voted down a move to annex 1,400 acres into the town, though it is nowhere near the heart of town, so that 2,000 residences and 250,000 square feet of commercial space could be built in a rural and environmentally sensitive area around Bolan Hall Landing.
The fight against it had a simple motto: “Keep Chelsea Rural.”…