/PRNewswire/ On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Griffin Living secured financing for an Assisted Living and Memory Care Community at West Cobb, in Acworth, GA. The.
Commissioners voted 3-1 to deny the rezoning, with Commissioner Mark Thomas voting for the project.
The rezone application was sought by Deferred Tax LLC and Maxie Price for three separate parcels of land. One parcel is currently zoned B-2, but the others are zoned for office space and residential use. The rezone would have brought all the parcels under B-2, a zoning that allows a wider variety of businesses.
However, Watkinsville landscape architect Ken Beall, who represented the landowner at Tuesday s commission meeting, said the parcel planned for a supermarket was not large enough for the proposed Publix. Part of the land from that parcel was donated to Oconee County for the construction of the Oconee Connector, he said.
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Image Used By Land Planner Beall At Planning Commission (Lee Becker)
If the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night were to approve the requested rezone for a shopping center at the intersection of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector, it would be the third largest in the county in terms of building square footage.
It also would be the culmination of efforts going back to 1988 to create a shopping at that location.
Commissioners have approved smaller shopping centers on two of the three properties in the intersection in the past, but the property owners never developed the land.
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:
GARDENER FLEES: On April 20, deputies were dispatched to a home in the Triple Creek neighborhood in Bogart, where a man cutting grass reported he stopped near a home only to be confronted by a woman dressed in a pink top, pajama bottoms and holding a gun pointed at him. “You need to get the (expletive) out of here,” the woman said, according to the man. The man said he then hopped aboard his lawn mower and fled to his truck, where he called his supervisor. The 33-year-old Comer man, who has an infant child, told the deputy he thought he was going to be shot for cutting grass. A deputy questioned the woman, who was chatting with the garbage man, but she denied pointing a gun at the mower. She said she only went outside and told the man “to git” at which point he fled. The 76-year-old woman told the deputy she thought the man was part of a cartel and he was making noise on the mower to cover a potential bur