Hoschton City Council holds public hearing on conditional use for daycare on Eagles Bluff Way near SR 53

Hoschton City Council opened a public hearing Jan. 7 on CU-24-1, a request by applicant Frank Pittman to allow a daycare center on a 2.0-acre commercially zoned parcel fronting the south side of Eagles Bluff Way and the west side of State Route 53 (SR 53).

The hearing matters because the site is in a mixed-use commercial area where a variety of commercial uses are allowed by right; the council must decide whether to attach conditions before allowing the daycare as a conditional use.

Dr. Weitz, the city planner, told the council that planning staff initially recommended approval with conditions but that the Planning and Zoning Commission had “pretty extensive discussion” and recommended a revised set of conditions. “An ordinance has been prepared in the event that you want to approve it with those conditions,” Dr. Weitz said, and he added the staff expected to “wordsmith some of the conditions in terms of just clarity and to avoid vagueness.” He said revisions could be presented for adoption “on the 21st.”

Frank Pittman, of Pittman and Greer Engineering and the applicant of record, described the site and emphasized it is already zoned commercial. “This property isn't a rezone, it's already zoned commercial with a lot of different options…