St. Simons Island, an unincorporated community in Glynn County does have a separate Island Planning Commission with some final authority. The community turnout (some 500 people) was not entirely prompted by this issue. The concern about plopping a gas station in the middle of a residential neighborhood was more intense. While the "highway commercial" designation of the parcel had been ignored for a long time, the fact that highways aren't attracting as much traffic as they used to seems to be prompting developers to bring highway enterprise right into where people live.
Part One deals mainly with re-zoning from one residential category to another. The applicant, sensing the attitude of the room, finally asked to have the matter deferred, to come back later with a more favorable proposal. So, individual members of the public were not heard. That's why this video is only 8 minutes (after editing) instead of the 30 minutes taken up by the next.