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Villa Rica Council adopts grease-bin rules, approves liquor-store and development variances and awards waterline contract in final 2025 meeting
Summary
At its Dec. 9 meeting the Villa Rica City Council approved a package of ordinances and development requests — including a grease-bin regulation, two commercial variances (one for an existing liquor-store site), an alcohol-license agent change for Walmart, and a $464,041 waterline relocation — and authorized a lease renewal and two post-executive-session items. Several votes were 4–1.
Villa Rica’s City Council closed its final regular 2025 meeting with a flurry of votes on commercial permits, an infrastructure contract and new business rules.
The council unanimously adopted a new ordinance to register and regulate outdoor recycled-grease bins used by restaurants, citing public-health and stormwater protection concerns after staff documented spills and unsanitary conditions. The ordinance requires businesses to register grease bins with the city, display a decal and provide contact information; staff set the registration window to coincide with the business-license renewal cycle (staff said the first deadline would be tied to March’s renewal period).
In community-development decisions, council approved an alcohol-license agent change for Walmart Stores East LP, located at 600 Carrollton/Billerica Highway, by a…
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