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Villa Rica staff to provide monthly flagged development updates; council asks to separate inactive projects

Villa Rica City Council · November 5, 2025
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Summary

City planning staff unveiled a new monthly development-status spreadsheet covering dozens of residential and commercial projects, and council members asked staff to flag changes, date the report, and separate inactive or long-dormant concepts. Staff also reported stop-work orders, final-inspection counts, and next steps for several major parcels.

Nick Griffin, deputy director of building development, presented a trial monthly development-status spreadsheet showing active, paused and inactive projects citywide and told council staff will date the report and flag any status changes going forward.

Griffin gave line-by-line updates on many projects: Arbors Phase 1 (192 units with certificates of occupancy issued), limited movement on Arbors Phase 2, construction activity on Villarrica (partial A), stop-work orders and punch lists for the Fortune Parkway townhome and single-family components, Walton Phase 2 nearing final inspections, Jamieson townhomes with 18 C.O.s issued, and other subdivisions at various stages of platting or construction. Griffin noted staff had denied one building permit where final plats or infrastructure were not complete.

Councilmembers asked for clearer formatting: separate projects with no recent movement into an “inactive/collecting dust” section, and highlight only items that changed since the prior report so the council can focus on substantive changes. Several members also asked staff to include parcel location information to help orient listeners.

On specific enforcement and safety items, Griffin said some developers had deviated from permitted plans (Fortune Parkway and a proposed liquor-store retrofit), prompting staff to issue stop-work orders and require engineering or punch-list items before lifting them. He said the city would bring appeals (such as the Gordon Street water/sewer capacity appeal) forward to the regular meeting when applicants were present.

Council agreed the monthly format should continue, with flagged changes discussed in meetings and inactive concepts separated on the report to reduce meeting length and improve transparency.