OPINION: Mount Pleasant's Most Significant Steps to 'Save' Shem Creek
A decade ago, Mount Pleasant politics was roiled by a grassroots group that formed in opposition to a planned parking garage and office building on Shem Creek. The advocacy group took the name "Save Shem Creek," and its seemingly ubiquitous bumper stickers probably weren't as numerous as town voters who heeded its concerns and soon elected a new mayor and Town Council committed to doing more to slow the town's rapid growth.
While they have adopted building moratoriums and limited other zoning changes across the state's fourth-largest...
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