Recent News
The May 14 webcast of Planning Strategies for South Carolina's Rural and Urban Counties is now available. To steam the video and access the handouts, visit the Planning and Zoning Education page.Read more
The S.C. Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA) has approved grant assistance for 26 communities, totaling more than $12 million, to strengthen water, sewer and storm water infrastructure. This brings the number of projects awarded to 54 in Fiscal Year 2019, totaling $25.7 million.
Whether it's upgrading aged water or sewer lines, rehabilitating elevated storage tanks, improving a downtown's drainage infrastructure or extending water and sewer lines to industrial parks in an effort to attract new industry, these grant awards will have a significant impact on the 58,102 residents and... Read more
The agenda and handouts for today's webcast, Planning Strategies for South Carolina Counties, are now available on the Planning and Zoning page under Events & Education. The stream will be available soon.Read more
With only one week left in this legislative session, the House spent most of its time in committees this week trying to advance legislation to the floor. The Senate spent most of the week on the floor debating the potential sale of Santee Cooper. Per the Sine Die resolution (S. 785) passed by the Senate, the General Assembly will return on May 20th through May 22nd to deal with specific items such as vetoes, the budget and capital reserve fund bills (... Read more