Environmental
South Carolina Coastal Zone Management regulates development in coastal areas to protect:
ACommercial fishing licenses
BTidelands, wetlands, and beach/dune systems✓ Correct
COffshore oil drilling rights
DInterstate highway access to beaches
Explanation
SC Coastal Zone Management (under DHEC's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management) regulates development near tidelands, wetlands, and beach/dune systems to protect coastal resources and ecosystems.
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Key Terms to Know
Zoning
Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.
VarianceOfficial permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.
Eminent DomainThe power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.
Adverse PossessionA doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
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