MOUNT PLEASANT — The Lowcountry Land Trust has successfully preserved a park within a settlement community that fought against incoming development earlier this year.

What started out as the Hamlin Beach Community Association’s effort to protect the Coakley Chapel turned into an opportunity to create a 6.5-acre park.

Hamlin Beach Community struggled earlier this year with landowners trying to get land within the community annexed into the town of Mount Pleasant to build subdivisions.

While the unincorporated settlement community is protected by Charleston County — where County Council last year approved a two-year moratorium on large-scale residential developments in historic districts like Hamlin — residents in community worried about this loophole landowners were trying to wor

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