City Tables Crowfield Deed Restrictions

The Goose Creek City Council voted Tuesday to table discussion on deed restrictions at the Crowfield Golf and Country Club.

 on the city-owned course to keep it from being divided up for the next 25 years. He's convinced the restrictions are a necessary barrier to keep future councils from abandoning the site.

"If the golf course collapses, we'd rather it not be built on," he said.

But who don't want to rush into the unprecedented limitation on future elected city officials and city residents.

They're also concerned about handing rights over the property to a third party — a necessity to make the deed restriction enforceable on future councils.

"I think when we turn it over to somebody else, they won't represent you at all," Councilwoman Marguerite Brown told the crowd at the City Council meeting. 

Councilman Kimo Esarey suggested the issue could be a topic for the council's annual strategic planning workshop. Councilman Jerry Tekac also said he'd like to slow down the process.

"This is probably the most important thing we do for that property in the next 25 years and we need to make sure we do it right," Tekac said.

Brown, Esarey, Tekac and Sal Gandolfo supported tabling the measure. Wishing to move forward in drafting the deed restriction were Heitzler and councilmen John McCants and Mark Phillips.

"We ought to proceed with fleshing this out legally and see what we come up with," Phillips said. Heitzler said the council would continue to discuss the issue.