Kiawah Development Partners v. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control
Supreme Court of South Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hearn
Our State’s tidelands are a precious public resource held in trust for the people of South Carolina. While the tidelands are a finite resource, a bevy of competing environmental, economic, and social uses seek to lay claim to them. The legislative branch has made the policy decisions as to how those uses should be balanced in order to maximize the benefit to the people of South Carolina and enacted statutes and delegated to executive agencies the power to promulgate regulations to fulfill those policy decisions. The task falls to the courts to ensure that those statutes and regulations are…
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