The Planning Commission is sticking by its goals for Georgetown County’s natural resources element adopted two years ago. Members voted 6-0  to send those goals back to County Council, which had asked them to review proposed changes made by staff and council members in 2023.

“I see no reason to change any of it,” commission member Marla Hamby said at the meeting earlier this month. “Seven people approved it and sent it to County Council.”

That was in November 2022. At a retreat the following January, the council agreed changes were needed to remove goals that were outside the county’s authority, such as improving water quality for shellfish beds, and that could prove expensive, such as managing land set aside for conservation.