Cumberland Island Update

Dec. 7, 2016

The Camden County Planning Commission voted to approve Lumar LLC’s Cumberland Island hardship variance. The applicant will now be free to subdivide the 87+ acre property (¼ mile from Sea Camp) that stretches from the river on one side of the Island to the ocean’s high tide on the other. The fact that the applicant failed to meet any of the hardship criteria was ignored. Concerns about the impacts on the Island’s visitors and environment were ignored (despite the statement by the National Park Service Superintendent, Gary Ingram). Lumar LLC (aka The Cumberland Island Conservancy) will now seek rezoning so as to allow for their planned “family compound.”
We have a 30-day window of time to appeal. Once that appeal is filed, the matter will go before the Camden County Commissioners.