South Carolina’s attorney general offered to support Lexington County’s concurrency standards in a lawsuit if the county is sued by developers.
The county got a thumbs up from the state’s top legal office when County Councilwoman Beth Carrigg asked for an opinion ahead of a vote last month by council members to include school data as part of their concurrency review.
“Folks, I spoke briefly with Alan this morning concerning our conference call the other day,” Solicitor General Emeritus Robert Cook wrote Carrigg and attorney Eric Bland in a Dec. 30 email, referring to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson. “He is certainly open to our submitting an amicus brief should the need arise.”…