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Planning commission backs rezoning for DICOM technical training campus, with overnight lodging and buffers
Summary
The Walton County Planning Commission recommended approval of a rezoning request for 48.84 acres to create a DICOM Industries technical training facility and retreat off Highway 78 and Jim Dawes Road, with conditions allowing on‑site manager quarters and trainee lodging.
Walton County planning commissioners voted Oct. 2 to recommend rezoning 48.84 acres at Highway 78 and Jim Dawes Road from A‑1 to B‑3 to allow a technical training facility and retreat proposed by DICOM Industries Inc. The commission’s recommendation will be forwarded to the Walton County Board of Commissioners for final action on Nov. 4.
Andrea Gray, representing the applicant, described a campus that would combine classroom and hands‑on training for telecommunications and utility workers, a mock residential training area, a pole yard, a driving course and lodges to house trainees. “They want to become part of the community in which they locate,” Gray said, describing a design that keeps roughly 80% of the site un‑paved and…
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