Buckle Up - More Coming

[Highstrung]

I know you know a lot of well established people in Camden, why did the city and county council allow for all these deep pocket slab house developers to come in and buy land that I honestly never thought would get bought up? I watched a road that I live on now literally go from a low traffic area to a stupid high traffic area in a matter of 5 yrs. I know that city and county council members cant tell land owners what to do and not do but. You know as well as I do that Camden grew way too fast for our infrastructure. Went to greener pastures the other day and every single person/group in there was obviously not from the south. I hear and see more fire trucks and blue lights now than ever. Never saw homelessness when I got here now, there is always someone sitting or walking around.

There was really nothing on the books to stop it. Both got caught unprepared in my opinion. Planning and zoning has to go by what they have, plans weren't put into place because we were growing too fast. Then the city tightens up, they're going to be sued. My personal beliefs is if you don't like it, buy it. Some are people with money, selling to others with money, to make more money. In my mind if it's legal, and you can stomach it, whatever. I knew the first couple of the houses built on your street in the 80s.

The city and the county are realing them in. In my opinion the county kind of made a weak move stopping everything, election year. I believe they'll end up being sued by a phone conversation I had last week. It needs to be responsible, and planned. We have a lack of affordable housing.. I'm not a hundred percent of how to answer it. Everything to me has changed, and has been a little tedious in my new position. After I retired last year, too young, I got bored. I took over as the executive director for Habitat for Humanity in Kershaw County.. building a house in the city, just isn't as much fun as it use to be. I'm finding that out now, we have third party inspectors. So I've dealt with city officials, and theyr'e helping. I'm not in it for profit.

The homeless problem is real. Before I began again in nonprofits around here my opinions on the problems and solutions of it were different. They're here, some get tickets out, some are folks that really can't afford it anymore. I don't have any answers, but I'm sure I'm going to be hearing a bunch over the next month or so.

Crime is up a little.. I used to know a bunch of the older causes.. it seems nowadays more is coming from transplants.

The entire thing, growth, has changed all of my plans.. I was happy to move out into the country, it's ruined now. I've got new school traffic to deal with and hundreds of new houses built or being built around me. I'll be back insulated a little from it all.. with a 30 second drive to my golf course, five minutes to the swamp, and five minutes to my office. I go to the Springdale area only for Masa.. and get my truck washed every so often in the morning.