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Residents press council over traffic, drainage and school capacity at proposed Ball Ground Highway annexation
Summary
A developer seeks annexation and rezoning of roughly 48.21 acres along Ball Ground Highway for 194 homes; residents at the Jan. 8 public hearing raised traffic, drainage, school-capacity and buffer disputes and requested more county and engineering detail. Council deferred action to February to allow follow-up.
A developer seeking to annex about 48.21 acres along Ball Ground Highway into the City of Canton faced sustained opposition from nearby property owners at a Jan. 8 public hearing. The applicant's plan would add 194 homes (21 cottages, 77 townhomes and 90 single-family lots) and requests two variances: reduce a 50-foot buffer in some places to 25 feet and allow townhomes to exceed a 25% cap.
Parks Huff, attorney for the applicant, told the council the site's topography and limited frontage on Highway 5 make residential development "better for residential than commercial uses," and that a divided boulevard entrance and a gated emergency access to Old Vandiver Road would meet fire and site-distance requirements. Huff said stormwater…
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