CONWAY S.C. (WPDE) — Land where dozens of Conway families once lived could soon be home to goats as city leaders consider a new way to manage overgrown, city-owned properties in the Sherwood community.
Officials are weighing “targeted grazing” to maintain land where homes were bought and demolished after devastating flooding from hurricanes Matthew and Florence. The properties were acquired through FEMA’s buyout program and later deeded to the city.
City officials had planned to transform some of that land into Chestnut Bay, a major flood mitigation project designed to reduce flooding along the Crabtree Canal while also creating public green space. But after FEMA funding for the project was canceled, the city was left maintaining dozens of acres of vacant land…