One of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities in the U.S. is in another fight to hold onto land owned by residents' families since their ancestors were freed from slavery.
The few dozen remaining residents of the tiny Hogg Hummock community on Georgia's Sapelo Island were stunned when they learned county officials may end zoning protections enacted nearly 30 years ago to protect the enclave from wealthy buyers and tax increases. local officials who have proposed eliminating protections that for decades helped shield the Gullah-Geechee residents from high taxes and pressure to sell their land to developers.
“It’s the erasure of a historical culture that’s still intact after 230 years," said Reginal Hall, a Hogg Hummock landowner whose family has deep roots on the island."Once you raise those limits and the land value increases, we only have two to three years at most. If you talk about the descendants of the enslaved, 90% of us will be gone.”
The current ordinance designating a special zoning district for Hogg Hummock limits homes to 1,400 square feet of heated space, prohibits paving except for building foundations and requires a permit to demolish any structure deemed eligible for the National Register. David Stevens, McIntosh County's commission chairman, and Patrick Zoucks, the county manager, did not immediately return phone and email messages seeking comment.
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