Sapelo Island referendum

A McIntosh County judge has ruled that local voters will get to decide whether or not to allow new, much larger houses to be built on Sapelo Island, some 60 miles south of Savannah.  The McIntosh County Commission in September approved the zoning change, but concerned local citizens collected more than 1,800 petition signatures needed to trigger a referendum, which will take place on October 1st.  The island is home to one of the last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants in the U.S.  Attorneys for the commission say they’ll challenge the ruling, but for now Sapelo Island’s zoning future is DRIFTING…