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Whitfield County approves multiple rezoning requests and registers no objection to several annexations
Summary
The Board approved three rezoning requests — including one the planning commission had recommended denying — and registered no land-use objection to several annexations requested by Tunnel Hill, Dalton and Varnell. Several approvals carried conditions such as a permanent masonry foundation requirement.
The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners approved multiple rezoning requests and registered no land-use objections to several municipal annexation petitions during its Feb. 8 meeting.
The board approved a request by Leonard T. Cochran Jr. to rezone parcel 11-307-32-000 (0.49 acres) at 1117 Beaverdale Road from Neighborhood Commercial (C-1) to Rural Residential (R-5), on a motion by Commissioner Barry W. Robbins with a second from Commissioner Greg Jones; the motion carried 3-0.
A separate rezoning request by Zaria Mesa for parcel 12-242-01-060 (0.38 acres) at 214 Hewitt Drive from Low Density Single-Family Residential (R-2) to Rural Residential (R-5) was approved by the board with the condition that the single-family, detached home have a permanently attached masonry foundation. The planning commission had recommended denial of that request; the board approved it by motion (Robbins/Jones) 3-0.
The board also approved the planning commissions recommendation to rezone parcel 12-089-02-000 (17.46 acres) at 2610 Cleveland Highway from General Agriculture (GA) to High-Density Residential (R-7). That motion (Robbins/Jones) passed 3-0.
On annexations, the board registered no land use classification objection to several parcels proposed for annexation by the City of Tunnel Hill (parcel numbers listed in the record) and likewise registered no objection to parcels proposed for annexation by the City of Dalton (parcel 12-251-10-100) and the City of Varnell (parcel 11-228-05-006). Each motion passed 3-0.
The minutes record the boards actions and conditions but do not provide detailed staff findings beyond the planning commission recommendations and the single-condition requirement for the Hewitt Drive parcel.
