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Board approves rezone and special-use to allow convenience store and truck fueling at Highway 78 & 53

Oconee County Board of Commissioners · November 5, 2025
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Summary

The board approved rezone P250043 and special-use P250044 to allow a gasoline/convenience store with two truck-fueling bays at the intersection of Highway 78 and Highway 53, subject to site and traffic conditions, after applicant and neighbor testimony about traffic impacts.

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners voted Nov. 4 to approve a rezone (P250043) and a special-use permit (P250044) to allow a gasoline station with an attached convenience store and truck-fueling bays at the intersection of Highway 78 and Highway 53.

County planning staff described the request and recommended conditional approval with a set of site standards (building materials and architectural elevations, landscaping and screening, a six-foot masonry screen wall for service areas, no truck parking signs, cross-access and ingress/egress easements, and a revised traffic impact analysis meeting Unified Development Code requirements). The planning…

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