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Edgefield County Planning Commission
meeting: Trenton residents say, No! to chicken farm Edgefielddaily.com web posted June 10, 2005 The Edgefield County Planning Commission held its regular monthly meeting Thursday night. Absent from the meeting was Chairman James Burt, Vice-chairman Roger Timpson, commission member Dick Harper, and Building and Planning Director Howard Gibson. With the minimum number of commissioners present to hold a quorum the meeting began with the members voting for member Jim Oliver to chair the meeting. Mr. Oliver gave the invocation and went straight to Nadine Horne who represented the Trenton Lakes Property Owners Association with a request for zoning of their area. Ms. Horne had over a dozen supporters in attendance. Ms. Horne, who said she had just moved to the area nine months ago, stated they were in the midst of a battle to stop a mass production chicken farm from being inserted on neighboring property which sat uphill from the neighborhood. The area is east of the Town of Trenton near the Courtney Road and Airport Road ending at Highway 19 near the county line. “They are going to put in four huge barns,” in addition to a 750 ton manure pit that would be cleaned out once a year Horne said. In addition to the smell her concern turned towards other environmental concerns, “the ammonia output will be enormous,” she said, “It will kill the water,” as well as other wildlife and there were, “endangered species” on the properties as well “wetlands” she said. Also a concern was the fact everyone in the area were on wells and what effects the ammonia would have on the water supply. Warren Hamilton also spoke saying they were trying to stop the chicken farm using their application for permission with DHEC. “We attended the public hearing on the permit and were told it was pretty much a done deal,” he said. After the permit was granted the group filed to have an administrative law judge review the application, “We feel we have a chance,” at stopping the chicken farm that way, “hopefully they will do the right thing,” he said. However, their concern goes beyond this particular battle, “We don’t want to have to be fighting against the next thing in six months be it a pig farm or whatever,” Horne explained. Commissioner Oliver asked what the plan they were asking for would include and was told that the details have not been drawn out yet and there was going to be a meeting held at the Council Chambers on June 15 at 7:00 pm and they would lay out the details at that time. Ms. Horne stated the public was invited. “This has gotten no publicity,” Horne said also stating no one knew about the venture because, “they ran the notice in the Citizen News,” and that, “nobody reads that” she said. Horne and Hamilton both said the only notice posted on the property was an 8 ½ x 11 inch notice posted on a pine tree well in the woods bordering the property. Commission member Bernadette Hudson asked if they were close to an area already zoned and was told they were not. That presents a problem Hudson said, “We can’t go around zoning just certain areas,” unconnected to zoned areas saying to do such would be “spot zoning,” and that was illegal. Ms. Horne said they would connect the area and that, “it will actually be a very large area,” that would be undertaken if the request is granted. Commissioner Norman Stephenson said he could relate to the problem of smells saying he grew up in New Jersey downwind from a duck farm and, “when the wind blew right, well, I can sympathize with you,” he said. Commissioner Tracy Freeman thanked those in attendance for their participation and the large amount of information they brought to the attention of the planning commission and said the,”Issue of zoning is a very touchy one in Edgefield County,” and the commission would consider their requests and that some of the commissioners would attend the meeting they had planned with Director Howard Gibson. Ms. Horne thanked the commission for their attention and the commission finished the meeting with the approval of the minutes and reports then adjourned. After the meeting Mr. Hamilton said they were going to, “fight the good fight,” and that even if they failed at the administrative law judge level they will push forward, “We will take it to every avenue available until hopefully they get tired of fighting and give up,” he said though he knew they were up against a well financed opponent. Return to Main Page
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