AWENDAW, South Carolina – The community of Awendaw is outraged because the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services held a public hearing on a new home development on the same night as the town council meeting.
This public hearing on the possible Seewee Landing project follows the virtual meeting that was held previously. Dozens of neighbors and environmentalists attended the Sept. 29 meeting to express their objections to the big development. The similar level of criticism was apparent at the public hearing on the development’s stormwater permit on Thursday night.
The 48.9-acre development, known as Seewee Landing, would contain a single-family residential subdivision with 65 units. The development would be located at 6578 Seewee Road in coastal Awendaw, just off Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, with 39.6 acres of proposed land disturbance. It would affect around 0.480 acres of wetlands…