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Reply From County Planning Files (Lee Becker) Georgia Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Meg Pirkle has overruled the District 1 project team in favor of a full access median commercial break for a major shopping center on the Oconee Connector between SR 316 and Mars Hill Road. In a letter dated April 6 and posted by Oconee County planning staff on the county website on Wednesday, Pirkle told land owner Maxie Price she was honoring Price's request for maintenance of the existing median break on the Connector and for an access cut to his property. As such, she was overturning a decisi...

Reply Jeff Hood At Town Hall Meeting (Lee Becker) Between 2024 and 2027, the Georgia Department of Transportation will construct full interchanges with flyovers on SR 316 at the Oconee Connector and at Jimmy Daniell Road as well as a flyover of Virgil Langford Road without on and off ramps. These projects will be "bundled," Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell told in-person and remote participants in a Town Hall meeting last week. They are part of a improvements to the Atlanta-to-Athens highway that include flyovers scheduled for 2026 of McNutt Creek Drive, for 2027 of Mar...

Reply From GDOT Documents (Lee Becker) Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024 on four of nine intersection projects in Oconee County that are part of a massive effort to transform SR 316 into what the Georgia Department of Transportation is calling "a freeway-style corridor." Included in the initial construction is a "bundle" of projects that will include multi-grade intersections at the Oconee Connector and SR 316 and at Jimmy Daniell Road and SR 316. The "bundle" also includes a bridge carrying Virgil Langford Road, currently blocked, across SR 316. Subscribe Construction also is schedu...

Reply Death Reports State Health Agencies (Lee Becker) On Jan. 11, Oconee County's St. Gabriel of Athens personal care home off Virgil Langford Road reported to the Department of Community Health its first two deaths from COVID-19 among its residents. On Jan. 20, St. Gabriel's reported three more deaths from COVID-19, and on Jan. 26 it reported one more death. The next day, Jan. 27, it reported two more, bringing its total to eight. Subscribe On Jan. 22, Oconee County's St. Mary's Highland Hills Village personal care home, 1660 Jennings Mill Road, reported to the Department of Community Healt...

Reply Kevin Letch (Aaron Nowak/Lee Becker) The Oconee County Planning Commission voted 8 to 0 on Tuesday night to recommend to the Board of Commission that it deny the rezone request for a major shopping center at the intersection of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector. The Commission took its vote after a relatively short discussion following a public hearing in which citizens voiced strong opposition to the project, raising concerns about the environmental impact of the project and about traffic created by it. Much of the discussion that did take place focused on the proposed main entra...