2875 Savannah Hwy. demolition

Director of Advocacy for the Historic Charleston Foundation; called the building important to regional and national history and asked the city to add it to the landmark overlay list.

With the Preservation Society of Charleston, she blamed decades of deferred maintenance and asked the board to block demolition and for Clemson to pursue adaptive reuse.

A tour guide who envisioned a museum of the site's research history and asked the board to deny the demolition.

Said Clemson should honor its agricultural roots and believes the building can be brought up to standard.

Argued the building is important context for how West Ashley developed and shouldn't be lost.

A former USDA worker at the building for 13 years who said it had outlived its purpose and should come down.

West Ashley Revitalization Commission member who said self-created deterioration can't justify demolition.

John's Island farmer whose family used the lab's research; he said it was time to take the building down, speaking also for the Charleston County Farm Bureau.