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Planning board recommends approval for Isler Road contractor office despite staff denial
Summary
Bulloch County Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend approval of a rezoning and conditional-use permit for a contractor office on Isler Road, after the applicant said required road improvements would cost about $192,000 and requested a maintenance agreement with the county.
The Bulloch County Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend approval of a rezoning and a conditional-use permit that would allow Frank and Floyd Bunch to operate a contractor office on about 3 acres on Isler Road.
Staff had recommended denial of the rezoning, but the board approved a recommendation for rezoning from AG-5 to General Commercial and a conditional use permitting a contractor office, with conditions listed in the staff report. The recommendations will be forwarded to the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners for final action on January 6 at 5:30 p.m.
Leslie West, agent for the applicants and a representative of Groundworks Unlimited, told the board the site would be a small satellite office for one or two employees with storage and parking for three dump trucks. "The value of that improvement at a minimum will be $192,000," West said of the staff-recommended 10-inch surface improvement the county requested. West said the company would not store aggregate on the parcel and asked whether the county could consider a maintenance agreement for truck traffic so the required roadwork would not make the purchase infeasible.
County engineering staff noted the 10-inch granular aggregate base (GAB) standard cited in the staff recommendation mirrors the approach the Georgia Department of Transportation uses to protect local roads. A county staff speaker said a maintenance agreement could be drafted in theory but that the county must ensure the road is kept to standard and not become an ongoing public-works burden.
After questions about truck movements, the proposed building (West said it would likely be a metal shipping-container-type structure), and site-plan details, a motion to recommend approval with conditions was made by a board member and seconded; the motion passed and the board said it will forward the recommendation to the commissioners on January 6.
The decision before the Planning & Zoning Board was advisory: final permitting and the requested rezone will be decided by the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners at the January hearing.
