Beaufort County, SC Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

The Community Development Code (CDC) regulates "Construction Staging or Plant" facilities (concrete or asphalt batch plants, or metal forming and cutting facilities assembled on or near a construction site) as a special use under Appendix A, Section A.2.50.K, which applies in the county's Community Preservation Districts covering unincorporated Lady's Island and St. Helena Island. Under A.2.50.K.2, if any adjoining land use or zoning district is residential, hours of operation for the staging or plant use are capped at 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. If no adjoining use or district is residential, the allowed window widens to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

The same subsection requires the applicant to submit a community impact statement before approval and, before a development permit issues, to post advance surety equal to 100 percent of estimated site restoration costs and 100 percent of estimated road restoration or replacement costs, both determined by the Director or county engineer, so the site and any roads used are put back to original or improved condition once the project ends. This provision sits within the CDC's broader conditional and special use standards (A.2.50), which govern uses like local utilities, religious establishments, schools and multifamily housing, and it supersedes the general conditional, special, and accessory use standards of CDC Article 4 for uses listed in Table A.3.40.A.

Because the standard is tied to the Community Preservation District use table, it governs construction staging and plant operations authorized there rather than every jobsite countywide, but it is the CDC's only codified construction-hours limit for that use.