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Commerce property owner seeks conditional use, parking variance for biweekly livestock auctions
Summary
An applicant asked the Madison County Planning Commission for a conditional use permit and a variance to run biweekly livestock auctions at 315 Neese Commerce Road; staff and commissioners raised questions about hours, parking surface, traffic and noise.
Zach Hightower, representing Northeast Georgia Outdoors LLC, asked the Madison County Planning Commission to approve a conditional use permit and a variance to operate a livestock auction barn at 315 Neese Commerce Road in Commerce.
Hightower’s application seeks permission to hold auctions every other Friday from 6 to 10 p.m., and a variance from paved parking and perimeter landscaping requirements; the applicant told the commission he plans about 50 gravel parking spaces though the ordinance requires 15 paved spaces with wheel stops.
The county planning staff…
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