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Elbert County commissioners discuss speeding up comprehensive plan update, weigh narrow pause on land-use approvals
Summary
Commissioners debated accelerating a 10–14 month comprehensive plan update and asked staff to analyze impacts of a targeted pause on certain land-use applications after concerns about rapid development and water rights.
Commissioners on the Elbert County Board of County Commissioners on April 9 discussed steps to accelerate a consultant-led update to the county comprehensive plan and whether to pause some land-use approvals while that work is completed.
The issue originated as a request from Commissioner Mike Book, who said the consultant projected a 10-to-14-month timeline to complete the update and asked whether that pace meets the county’s needs given “several couple thousand homes already approved” and additional projects in the pipeline. Book said commissioners need more recent…
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