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Cherokee County hearing continued on proposed rezoning of 69-acre East Cherokee Drive site
Summary
The Cherokee County Planning Commission continued a public hearing on a request to rezone 69 acres on East Cherokee Drive to light industrial so the applicant can revise the site plan and prepare a traffic study. Planning staff cited access and environmental constraints and recommended a condition barring industrial access to Coker's Chapel Road.
The Cherokee County Planning Commission and County Commission on Wednesday continued a public hearing on a request to rezone a 69-acre property at 13450 East Cherokee Drive to light industrial, sending the case back to staff and the applicant for additional study.
Planning staff said the applicant, Ball Ground Business Park LLC, seeks to rezone a split-zoned site (ONI and R80) to allow industrial uses and showed a concept for a 20,000-square-foot multipurpose building with 76 parking spaces and a 24-foot-wide driveway aligned across from Craft Trail. The property, which is currently vacant, has frontage on East Cherokee Drive and Coker's Chapel Road and lies near Dwight Terry County Park, the Pine Bluff Landfill and the CCWSA wastewater treatment plant.
Planning staff noted physical and policy constraints on development. A stream and associated floodplain bisect the parcel,…
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