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FLOWERY BRANCH – First reading approval was given by the Flowery Branch City Council Thursday evening to a rezoning application that will bring 65 new townhomes and 26,400-square feet of commercial space to an 11.34-acre site at the southwest corner of McEver Road and Gainesville Street.
Rezoning requests, annexation applications, zoning variances and special use permits are standard fare at almost every Flowery Branch City Council meeting. Quite simply, the city is experiencing a building boom, and at most meetings land-use applications dominate the city council agenda.
“Thirty-one percent of all the houses built in the entire county last year were built within Flowery Branch,” City Manager Bill Andrew told city council members two weeks ago. “We’re obviously a much smaller land mass than thirty-one percent.”
A Flowery Branch man was arrested Wednesday by the Flowery Branch Police Department following an investigation into allegations of child molestation.
According to Flowery Branch Police Chief David Spillers, the Flowery Branch Police Department received the allegations against 31-year-old Korentheus Jerome Bailey on Feb. 8, 2021.
Spillers said information and evidence surrounding the allegations were obtained and presented to the Magistrate Court of Hall County. Warrants were later received authorizing the arrest of Bailey, based on the facts and circumstances presented to the Magistrate Court, according to Spillers.
Spillers said Bailey is charged with Child Molestation, Enticing a Child for Indecent Purposes, Cruelty to a Child in the 1
FLOWERY BRANCH – The Flowery Branch City Council focuses much of its time and energy on carefully controlling the city’s rapid growth, but Thursday evening it heard from Flowery Branch Police Chief David Spillers about another kind of growth spurt affecting the south Hall County municipality: crime.
No place in Hall County is growing faster than Flowery Branch. “Thirty-one percent of all the houses built in the entire county last year were built within Flowery Branch,” City Manager Bill Andrew told council members. “We’re obviously a much smaller land mass than thirty-one percent.”
But keeping up with that strong rate of growth, possibly even surpassing it according to Spillers, is crime.