As part of the ongoing comprehensive update process for the Land Development Code (LDC), Richland County Council has approved an ordinance to keep the current 2005 LDC in place until a revised text and map are adopted.

Richland County offices will close Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.

The County’s Planning Commission has set a tentative schedule for additional work sessions to discuss rewriting the County’s 2021 Land Development Code (LDC).

County residents are invited to celebrate the accomplishments of local neighborhoods at a free block party Thursday, June 23.

Environmentalists in Richland County, including a County employee, earned places in the spotlight at the annual conference for the Environmental Education Association of South Carolina (EEASC), taking home more than half of the organization’s top honors.