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Commission denies two requests to remove properties from Mill Village overlay

5509664 · July 30, 2025
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Summary

Commissioners rejected two separate applications to remove Mill Village overlay designations from C-2 parcels — one proposed as an employment hub and one sold as commercial property — citing the county's future land use policy and overlay intent.

The Spalding County Planning Commission voted unanimously to deny two related future land use map amendment requests that would have removed parcels from the Mill Village overlay district and allowed expanded commercial/manufacturing uses. The first request, presented as a companion application by attorney Stephen Jones for Flume (5 Whitten Avenue), sought to carve about 15–16 acres out of a 23-acre former mill site so an aviation electrical contractor would establish a Georgia base. Jones told commissioners the proposal would "provide an employment center that facilitates…

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