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A n d e r s o n C o u n t y P l a n n i n g C o m m i s s i o n . c o m is provided as a public service to expose Anderson County, SC’s outdated, corrupt, unfair, discriminatory and illegal planning process and to call out those “public servants” who perpetuate this chronically failed system.

This website aims to increase the level of transparency in Anderson County so its citizens can hold their representatives to account. So, it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that this website has not been approved, endorsed or authorized by Anderson County, SC or its planning commission. Instead, Anderson County provided this website with far more legitimacy by spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars suing it in Federal Court in a failed attempt to steal possession of it and silence it. Perhaps Anderson County Council — the entity that secretly approved behind closed doors the use of taxpayer money to file the incredibly expensive and tone-deaf federal lawsuit — did not appreciate this site referring to one of their own as a racist criminal who stole millions of dollars from the taxpayers. Either way, Anderson County’s officials have continued to break the law, and it has become increasingly apparent that the individual(s) within Anderson County government who spearheaded the boneheaded lawsuit (that was just the third federal lawsuit ever filed by Anderson County and was dismissed in the face of sanctions) have no plans to own up to their actions.

It is your lawful right to know the reasons behind the decisions that shape your community and Anderson County’s well documented history of withholding public records and using the taxpayers’ own money to silence members of the public who are critical of how it operates is a testament to why real transparency and accountability in Anderson County is so desperately needed.

As for whether bias and conflicts of interest are prevalent in land-use decision making by Anderson County planners — the answer is yes. But, it’s actually much worse than that: Jane Jones, Planning Commissioner for council district 6, is known to employ a variety of underhanded tactics to improperly influence the outcome of Anderson County land-use decisions — essentially rigging the game before it even begins. In fact, by the strings she has pulled over the years to get her way there is arguably no one who has done more to taint the integrity of the Anderson County Planning Commission than Jane Jones.

As a result of Jones’ incessant pattern of improper activity, the information and materials published to this website over the next several months (or as long as Jones remains on the planning commission) will focus largely on Jones (in her official capacity) and the scandal-scarred council district (6) she has “represented” for well over a decade.

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In a push to impose one of the largest school impact fees in South Carolina — Anderson County School District One continues to tout inflated growth projections that are more than double what their own $33,520 Impact Fee Study can substantiate.

Anderson One's orchestrated disinformation campaign needs to be called out for what it is. "An additional 2,000 students in the next eight to ten years" certainly grabs your attention and "growth to pay for growth" has a nice ring to it but what Anderson One is not telling you is that the eye-popping numbers they have been touting on every local news channel and in every local newspaper contradict the conclusions of their own professional school impact study that has cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.