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County seat: Darien
Official county website: http://www.mcintoshcountyga.com/
County Commission: http://www.mcintoshcountyga.com/index.php/government/government-2
Meetings: 5 p.m. second Tuesdays each month
Agendas, minutes for all meetings: http://www.mcintoshcountyga.com/index.php/government/minutes-from-commissioners-meeting
McIntosh County Schools: https://www.mcintosh.k12.ga.us/
McIntosh County Commissioners have received a zoning proposal from the Hogg Hummock community to limit house size and height, while a civil rights lawsuit related to the rezoning could be reactivated soon.
Keep readingThe McIntosh County Commission imposed a 30-day moratorium on building in the Gullah Geechee enclave of Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island following a county-wide vote that repealed a controversial 2023 zoning amendment, in order to align the county’s codes and ordinances with the outcome of the referendum.
Keep readingVoters repeal Sapelo rezoning by 5 to 1 margin in special election the county tried to thwart in court.
Keep readingMcIntosh County has spent over $500,000 defending its 2023 rezoning of Hogg Hummock, a Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, which is the subject of a referendum to repeal the ordinance that allowed larger houses to be built in the area.
Keep readingMcIntosh residents are voting in a referendum to repeal a 2023 zoning amendment that would double the allowable house size on the island, which supporters believe would force out the descendants of enslaved West Africans in favor of wealthy newcomers.
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