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Newnan City council reviews annexation and rezoning for 61-home Roscoe Road development
Summary
At a June 17 work session the Newnan City Council discussed an applicant’s request to annex portions of two tax parcels and rezone roughly 20–21 acres to permit 61 single-family homes; no council vote was taken.
Newnan City Council members met in a June 17 work session to review an annexation petition and a rezoning request from Greg Rogers for a roughly 21.7-acre residential development on Roscoe Road and the State Route 34 bypass.
City staff member Cole summarized the request, saying the applicant seeks to rezone the main parcel from CGN to RU-7 “for the purpose of constructing 61 fee simple, 1 or 2 story single family detached homes.” Cole said the overall project area would total about 21.71 acres and that the proposal’s density of 2.8 units per acre falls under the RU-7 maximum of four units per acre.
The matter matters to neighbors and to the city’s long-term boundaries: the applicant also asked to annex two partial parcels — roughly 1.1994 acres on the State Route 34 bypass (tax parcel 073 B 033) and 0.4996 acres on Roscoe Road (portion of tax parcel 073 B 032). Cole said the proposal would leave a 50-foot strip of those parcels in the county to “prevent land locking of parcels around them.” Mr. Motley, who spoke…
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