Sun News - South Carolina's environmental agency is looking to tighten a 22-year-old oceanfront development law that has failed to stop the march of new condo buildings and houses toward the sea - despite a 1988 mandate to limit building on the beach. A special panel, to be appointed by the Department of Health and Environmental Control board, will come up with specific changes for the legislature to consider in 2012. The DHEC board approved forming the panel Thursday at the request of department staff members. The panel would use data from an extensive two-year state study that said South Carolina's effort to limit new seaside development hasn't worked as intended. Any recommendations to toughen the law could affect thousands of seaside property owners and put DHEC on a collision course with development interests.
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