The 360-acre golf club is valued by Charleston County at $5.4 million, and sought the annexation because the town “provides full services and security,” which would include police, fire and sanitation services. The annexation also prevents the neighboring town of Awendaw from expanding.
The town of Mount Pleasant, S.C., has annexed Bulls Bay Golf Club, marking an important change to the town’s northern boundary, one that defines the local government’s reach and halts any potential southern expansion by the neighboring town of Awendaw, the Charleston, S.C.-based Post and Courier reported.
“Strategically, it’s significant,” Mount Pleasant Mayor Linda Page said. “The annexation of Bulls Bay blocks Awendaw, and it’s a very logical place for us to be bounded.”
The more-than-400-acre annexation also adds millions of dollars in taxable property to the town’s tax base, with more to come as homes are built on the Rice Fields at Bulls Bay lots near the golf club. The 360-acre golf club itself is valued by Charleston County at $5.4 million, the Post and Courier reported.
Bulls Bay Golf Club founder and owner Joe Rice said he asked Mount Pleasant to annex the properties because the town “provides full services and security,” which would include police, fire and sanitation services, the Post and Courier reported.
Towns in South Carolina can grow by annexing adjacent, unincorporated properties. By annexing the Bulls Bay club and dozens of associated residential lots, Mount Pleasant created a northern boundary line that extends from the Wando River to the oceanfront marsh. The town’s new boundary also abuts Awendaw’s southern town limit, the Post and Courier reported.
Awendaw Administrator Bill Wallace said the town is not troubled by Mount Pleasant’s annexation of Bull’s Bay. “We don’t have any plans to annex anything down there, and we haven’t tried to,” he said.
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