Cherokee County planning staff, applicant ask to continue rezoning hearing for Ball Ground Business Park to allow revised site plan and traffic study

The Cherokee County Commission and Planning Commission on a February 2025 joint public hearing voted to continue consideration of a rezoning request for a 69-acre property at 13450 East Cherokee Drive so the applicant can revise its site plan and prepare a traffic study.

Planning staff said the property, presented as Case 2500Two-three, is currently split-zoned O&I and R-80 and that the applicant, Ball Ground Business Park LLC, asked to rezone the site to industrial uses. Staff described site constraints, including a stream with floodplain and stream buffers, proximity to the Pine Bluff Landfill and a wastewater treatment plant, and access on East Cherokee Drive and Coker's Chapel Road.

The continuance was requested because the applicant intends to revise the concept plan and provide a traffic study; the commission voted to table the matter until an additional public hearing set for April 1, 2025. Chair said, "I'll make a motion to table it until the April meeting." Adam Rosen, representing the applicant, said the applicant is…