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Planning commission approves rezoning at 2811 Athens Highway, limits outdoor storage
Summary
Hall County planning commissioners approved rezoning of 21.21 acres at 2811 Athens Highway to a planned industrial development with conditions, and partially approved a separate request for outdoor storage, limiting gravel storage to a 160-by-160-foot area and denying larger northern storage.
Hall County Planning Commission on Jan. 20 approved a request to rezone 21.21 acres at 2811 Athens Highway from Agricultural Residential (AR-1) to a Planned Industrial Development and recommended conditions for site design and material standards.
The action matters because the change would allow heavy-industrial uses on a site adjacent to existing industrial parcels and within the county—s Gateway Corridor Overlay District; commissioners attached material, buffering and operational conditions intended to limit visual and noise impacts on nearby residences.
Planner Katie Greenway told commissioners staff recommended denial of the rezoning but provided 10 conditions commissioners could adopt if they chose approval. Applicant representative James Urban of Foothills Land Design said the applicant had removed an earlier-proposed transfer…
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