WWW Links

This GIAC page provides links that you can use to find a considerable amount of information on Horry County, Horry County and South Carolina government, South Carolina newspapers, and related web sites. You may want to put this page in your "favorites" or "bookmarks" in order to easily return to it later.

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Quick Reference Menu:

Note: When you try to link to a web site outside of GIAC by clicking below, a blank page or advertisement frequently obscures the web site page to which you linked. When this occurs, click the "x" in the upper right corner of the covering page to view the page you chose.

To Gather Information on This	Click the Associated Link Below and See the Note Above
County Council Districts/Precincts^*	http://www.horrycounty.org/gateway/main.html
General Horry County Information	Horry County government
State Legislative Information	South Carolina State Legislative Information.
South Carolina Statutes	South Carolina Code
SC Newspapers, etc.	www.schotline.com
Annual Property Tax Cap Info	Property Tax Cap Experience
Socastee Neighborhood Coalition	Socastee Neighborhood Coalition
We the People of Horry County	We the People of Horry County
Horry County Democrats	http://www.horrydemocrats.org/
Horry County Republicans	http://www.horrycountyrepublicanparty.com/

* The Horry County "Gateway" is more complex than just clicking this link to find precincts -- to find precincts, click http://www.horrycounty.org/gateway/main.html then click "my neighborhood," click "Submit," type in your street address, click "Submit." click your street address (that appears at the bottom of the dialog box), click "Elected Officials," and scroll down for the information.

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Road Map to WWW Links With Horry County Info Link Details:

Click http://www.horrycounty.org/gateway/main.html to reach the new Horry County web site location that provides property information such as tax history, last county appraised property value for assessment (not fair market value as designated, at this writing), the registry of deeds, an interactive (center point of view, zoom in/ zoom out) composite aerial photograph of Horry County with flood plain information and zoning, and an interactive mapping based application locating school districts, council districts, precincts, etc. based on address, parcel id or street intersection.

For Horry County government information, click Horry County government . Be aware that it takes about three months for county ordinances to be codified and put on this site. So you may not be seeing the latest.

For the agenda on County Council meetings, after clicking Horry County government, click the County Council link and then select the agenda for the date. it is available on the site by 12:00 noon the Friday before a meeting (usually scheduled the second and third Tuesday each month).

For the minutes on County Council meetings, follow a similar procedure after clicking Horry County government Note 2001 and 2002 archived minute link at the bottom of those for 2003. These are not posted until after they are approved at the succeeding County Council meeting.

For the agenda on Planning Commission meetings, after clicking Horry County government, click Departments, on the new screen, pull down the menu by clicking the down arrow immediately to the right of the words "select department" and scrolling down till the word "Planning" appears. Click on "Planning." On the new screen, scroll down to the menu and click the desired date alongside "Agenda" in blue text. Wait for Acrobat Reader to load the agenda text.

"The Planning Commission agenda is hard to read when it comes up on the Planning web page. The first thing I would suggest doing is clicking on the break out of frames button on the left side of the page located under the Horry County symbol. This will eliminate the index and make the page full screen. After this, when you open the agenda it will be sized at 44% ( this should show up on the lowest toolbar at the top of the page on the left hand side). If you increase the size to 100% it should be readable. Also, if you prefer to print the page the font size should be readable on the printed page." -- Guidance as furnished by James Bischof Senior Planner.

To get contact information on Planning Commission members on the county site, click "Directory," "Boards and Commissions" and then "Planning Commission." More detailed contact information may also be reached from this GIAC site (valid as of January 1, 2003) by clicking Effective Action here or on the menu on the right and navigating to the third section of that page, "2003 Incumbent Contact Information."

For state information, click South Carolina State Legislative Information.

For state laws click South Carolina Code,

For state political information including links to newspapers state-wide, click www.schotline.com

For information on California's experience with their 1978 Proposition 13 that put a cap on annual property tax increases and reassessed only when a property changed hands, click Property Tax Cap Experience. For a discussion more directly applicable to us including the status of current South Carolina legislation in the legislature and in the courts, click Tax Caps & Fees to reach the corresponding page on this GIAC site.

Click Socastee Neighborhood Coalition to view its web site. Click We the People of Horry County to view its web site.

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