County uses Eminent Domain, will clear land next to airport
“Clarendon County paid $123,220 for 13.88 acres of land at the end of the runway at Santee Cooper Regional Airport pursuant to the state’s Eminent Domain Act, records show.
According to the Assessor’s Office, that parcel — just off S.C. 260 with Thompson Road running through it — is valued at $34,800.
Clarendon County is listed as the “comdemnor,” records show, and was pitted against the heirs of Mary McKnight and 19 other people in a Court of Common Pleas case.
Although extending the runway has been a goal for county officials for some time, Aeronautics Commission Chairman Hal Lowder said that tract is one of three parcels with trees that “penetrate safety zones for approaches and departures.””
Perry, Joe. Manning Live 7 August 2014.