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Commissioners approve exception for convenience store with fuel pumps in Beis Lake; add ban on drive-thru fast food
Summary
The Board granted an exceptional variance allowing a neighborhood convenience store with fuel pumps in the Bells Ferry overlay at Beis Lake, subject to a stipulation letter and an added county condition barring fast-food drive-thru restaurants. Residents and a neighboring fuel operator voiced opposition at the hearing.
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 7 approved an exceptional-variance request permitting a convenience store with fuel pumps at a site on Beis Lake Parkway within the Bells Ferry overlay, subject to a written stipulation from the developer and an additional county condition that expressly prohibits fast-food restaurants with drive-thru windows on the site.
Planning staff described the proposal as a four-building mixed-commercial development in the neighborhood-center portion of the overlay; only one of the buildings would be a neighborhood convenience store with a small number of pumps located behind the store. The developer…
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