BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - In Beaufort County – county council is currently discussing future development on Saint Helena Island.

It’s one of several items on the agenda for Monday night’s meeting, which changed its location to the Burton Wells Recreation Center to accommodate the amount of people who showed up.

This meeting has been going on for over five hours, with no decision yet.

When this all started, the gym was packed with people, but now hundreds have left as public input continues.

This is all because of discussion over a zoning change that could alter Saint Helena Island.

The island is almost exclusively zoned as a “Cultural Protected Overlay”, which aims to protect the Gullah Geechee culture and land.

Those who oppose the zoning change say new zoning would remove cult

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