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Request your copy of the Sapelo Island, Georgia (SIG) Redevelopment Plan DRAFT No. 1 via email @ info@raccoonhogg.com.
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SIG (Sapelo Island, Georgia) Redevelopment Plan - a Gullah/Geechee Culture Initiative Project by Raccoon Hogg Community Development Corporation and HELP ORG for a public/private partnership with the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority
PLANNING BACKGROUND & METHODOLGY: In 2011, in response to the continued systemic cultural deprivation of Gullah/Geechee culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia, critical stakeholders designed a community-driven development corporation to dismantle the barriers and challenges of the current and future generations of Gullah/Geechee people. Gullah/Geechee descendants of SIG established Raccoon Hogg Community Development Corporation (so-called in honor of the Hogg Hummock and Raccoon Bluff ancestral Gullah/Geechee settlements on SIG) and spearheaded the Gullah/Geechee Culture Initiative. The Initiative has planned, developed, evaluated, and analyzed reliable strategies for the regeneration of Gullah/Geechee culture. To not allow for the tourist industry to hurt the biodiversity of Sapelo Island, Conservation plus Preservation are blended together for radically different cultural heritage eco-tourism strategies that are on display within the SIG Redevelopment Plan.
Over the course of 15-months (with 5-years of preliminary research), the methodology used to collect the data necessary to prepare the SIG Redevelopment Plan derived from various personal interviews, telephone interviews, online surveys, town hall meetings, public hearings, forums, development sessions and roundtable discussions, plus field research. In addition, meetings took place with various state agencies, departments, elected officials, as well as county and federal representatives of the same. Additionally, data from the SINERR Master Plan, McIntosh County Comprehensive Plan, Georgia Costal Management Plan, Coastal Comprehensive Master Development Plan, Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, State Historic Preservation Plan, Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Management Plan, State Wildlife Action Plan, Sate Environmental Literacy Plan, Comprehensive State-wide Water Management Plan and the Department of Natural Resources Strategic Plan were incorporated.
PLANNING BACKGROUND & METHODOLGY: In 2011, in response to the continued systemic cultural deprivation of Gullah/Geechee culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia, critical stakeholders designed a community-driven development corporation to dismantle the barriers and challenges of the current and future generations of Gullah/Geechee people. Gullah/Geechee descendants of SIG established Raccoon Hogg Community Development Corporation (so-called in honor of the Hogg Hummock and Raccoon Bluff ancestral Gullah/Geechee settlements on SIG) and spearheaded the Gullah/Geechee Culture Initiative. The Initiative has planned, developed, evaluated, and analyzed reliable strategies for the regeneration of Gullah/Geechee culture. To not allow for the tourist industry to hurt the biodiversity of Sapelo Island, Conservation plus Preservation are blended together for radically different cultural heritage eco-tourism strategies that are on display within the SIG Redevelopment Plan.
Over the course of 15-months (with 5-years of preliminary research), the methodology used to collect the data necessary to prepare the SIG Redevelopment Plan derived from various personal interviews, telephone interviews, online surveys, town hall meetings, public hearings, forums, development sessions and roundtable discussions, plus field research. In addition, meetings took place with various state agencies, departments, elected officials, as well as county and federal representatives of the same. Additionally, data from the SINERR Master Plan, McIntosh County Comprehensive Plan, Georgia Costal Management Plan, Coastal Comprehensive Master Development Plan, Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, State Historic Preservation Plan, Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Management Plan, State Wildlife Action Plan, Sate Environmental Literacy Plan, Comprehensive State-wide Water Management Plan and the Department of Natural Resources Strategic Plan were incorporated.
STRATEGY: To assist community leaders and Gullah/Geechee Culture stakeholders and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority and other parties of interest in implementing the 1998 Sapelo Island Comprehensive Management Plan through the delivery of technical assistance to design a redevelopment plan for implementation and identify financial resources. To encourage the creation of new opportunities/markets for SIG to become economically sustainable through strategic partnerships for Cultural Heritage Tourism, Agritourism, Ecotourism, Voluntourism and Cultural Research to protect the culture and historic value of Sapelo Island as articulated in the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority Act, O.C.G.A. 12-3-440.
GOAL: Increase investment in and development of the entire Island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia to add depth and range to SIG residents and visitor experience while simultaneously preserving the cultural heritage and the environment. Increase SIG’s portfolio to create opportunity to introduce new audiences to SIG’s amazing variety of historical sites and attractions and its rich cultural heritage. Establish a community economic development pilot model from the Economic Spine of our Nation centrally located within the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. SIG will exemplify how cultural heritage tourism is an economic development engine with multiple benefits - academically, fiscally, intellectually and thus socially - by reestablishing the original 13 ancestral Gullah/Geechee settlements on SIG.
GOAL: Increase investment in and development of the entire Island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia to add depth and range to SIG residents and visitor experience while simultaneously preserving the cultural heritage and the environment. Increase SIG’s portfolio to create opportunity to introduce new audiences to SIG’s amazing variety of historical sites and attractions and its rich cultural heritage. Establish a community economic development pilot model from the Economic Spine of our Nation centrally located within the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. SIG will exemplify how cultural heritage tourism is an economic development engine with multiple benefits - academically, fiscally, intellectually and thus socially - by reestablishing the original 13 ancestral Gullah/Geechee settlements on SIG.
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If you are a Sapelo Island descendant,
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for more information about the delineated issues regarding Basic Living Standards on SIG call
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