The Horry County Council held its regular meeting on December 9, 2025, in the Council Chambers, with Chairman Johnny Gardner presiding. The agenda listed a 6:00 p.m. start; the source meeting timestamp was 2025-12-09 11:00:00+00:00. Council heard public input, approved the consent calendar, recognized two mayors and a long-serving employee, conducted second readings and public hearings on multiple zoning and ordinance items, and referred one ordinance back to committee for minor adjustments.
Votes were by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were reported in the source transcript.
We'll start the way we always do with an invitation tonight by Mr. Crawford, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Mr. Hardy. If I can get everybody, please stand. Your gracious heavenly father, we thank you for this time to gather. We ask you for your blessings and your favor of this meeting. Help us to deliberate deliberate and serve the people of this county. Pray that you would be with our county employees as they go out during this festive season and serve the community. Please be with them and their families. With our entire community. Please live with our community. Close to your heart. Blessed. All these things in Jesus' name. And to the Republic, which is standards. One nation. Under God in the invisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Up is public input. We've had three people sign up. I'll just go over the rules very briefly. We haven't had many public input speakers in a while. By rule, it's five minutes. We have this really cool clock here to help guide your way. Green is go, go go. Yellow is one minute, window, and red is stop. Be polite to the people in the audience, the people at home and the people that are speaking after you. Please don't go over the five minutes. This is a professional venue. We want you to be professional. We want to hear what you ought to say, but this is a venue where you can come and talk about what your issue is. It's not a place to call people names or use profanity or be unprofessional. That being said, we'll start off with Mr. Michael Tomkinson, who has code violation, permit issues, non-resident vehicle tags. Mr. Tonkinson. I live in uh Little River, District One. I got uh some concerns for me and my neighbors that we have uh problems in our neighborhood. Um I've lived in my house for seven years, and uh I want to start off with um a major concern is uh you got buildings, there's apartment buildings, and there's houses that are rented starting to rent, and they're going in and fixing them up, and they're not pulling any permits, which is making the county lose money. Okay, my second concern is there's many people living in that neighborhood have been there for five years that I've noticed. North Carolina plates. Not changing them over. They've been there for five years. These people have been there since I moved there, they live right behind me. Six years. He has a hundred thousand dollar pickup truck, North Carolina. Now the law states that when you move there, you have 30 days to change your plates. Refuse to do it. He has a bus that sits in the back, which is in between the fence.