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Commission rezones Highway 16 site to allow electrification components manufacturing with use limitations
Summary
Coweta County approved a rezoning to permit manufacturing, assembling and testing of electrification components at a completed warehouse on Highway 16, with a condition that excludes more intensive M‑district uses.
Coweta County commissioners on Jan. 23 voted unanimously to rezone a 20‑acre property at 700 Highway 16 East from LM (Light Industrial) to M (Industrial) with a written limitation: the board explicitly limited the M district change to allow the manufacturing, assembling, testing, warehousing, transportation and repair of electrification components (for example panels, cabinets, chargers, motors and battery modules and packs) but excluded higher‑impact M uses such as foundries, concrete plants, poultry processing and similar intensive operations.
Why it matters: The property already contains an existing building and sits amid other industrial parcels. The narrowly drafted rezoning is intended to allow a prospective tenant to occupy the space for manufacturing electrification components without opening the site to the full set of M‑district uses.
Staff presented the request and recommended conditions intended to limit off‑site impacts. The proposed conditions included limiting permitted uses to those listed in staff materials, requiring adherence to county codes and quality development corridor standards where applicable, and requiring any new lighting to be full cutoff fixtures to minimize glare. The applicant’s attorney, Steven Jones, told the board the request should be read as “LM plus one use” — essentially preserving existing LM uses while adding a single M‑type use for electrification components. He said the owner and developer consented to staff’s recommended conditions.
Commissioners discussed the wording of condition 1 and asked staff and the applicant to make explicit that other, more intensive M uses would be excluded; the applicant agreed to that clarification. With that language added, the board approved the rezoning with the agreed conditions.
What happens next: The site remains subject to standard site‑plan, building plan and quality‑development requirements. Any subsequent tenant or project that seeks a different or broader M‑district use would need to apply to the county and comply with normal review processes.
Speakers and documents cited in this article are drawn from the public hearing and staff report recorded in the meeting transcript.
