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As Tybee Island implements control measures for weekend, Orange Crush founder recounts challenges. Gannett. Destini Ambus, Savannah Morning News. April 17, 2024 at 5:12 AM.
Located in the mouth of the Savannah River, the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) refuge began as a 1-acre (4,000 m 2) oyster shoal, Oysterbed Island, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a spoil disposal site to support their mandated harbor dredging activity. As a result, the majority of the refuge is now covered with sand deposits.
Tybee Island is the only coastal resort in Georgia comparable to other examples in the American coastal resort movement such as Cape May, New Jersey, Long Branch, New Jersey, and Nantucket, Massachusetts. The NRHP nomination expands on this: Tybee Island is the only example of the American coastal resort movement in Georgia.
Tybee Island (/ ˌ t aɪ b ɪ / TYE-bee) is a city and a barrier island in Chatham County, Georgia, 18 miles (29 km) east of Savannah. The name is used for both the city and the island, but geographically the two are not identical: only part of the island's territory lies within the city itself.
Home and villa rentals on Hilton Head Island had a direct economic impact of $985,790,272 in 2023, 8% more than in 2022, according to Charlie Clark at the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of ...
In August 2021, Tybee Island set a 90-day moratorium for issuing short-term vacation rental permits in residential areas with the intention to gather information on issues, concerns and potential ...
It is significant as a very well preserved example of a raised Tybee cottage. It is one of few still intact from the "golden era" of Tybee Island's development during 1910–1939, when Tybee Island became a beach house community for Savannah middle-class families. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 2008 ...
In October 2022, Tybee Island passed an ordinance concerning short-term rentals, which prohibited new short-term rentals from being allowed in residential zoning districts R-1, R-1-B, and R-2 ...