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Whitfield County denies several rezoning requests, accepts road-closure petition; grants annexation non-objections

Whitfield County Board of Commissioners · March 1, 2026
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Summary

The Board denied multiple rezoning petitions (including a commercial rezoning opposed by Keith Street residents), accepted a petition to begin closing part of Old Mitchell Bridge Road and returned no land-use objection to two municipal annexations.

At its April 10 meeting, the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners decided multiple land-use items, denying several rezoning requests, accepting a petition to begin the statutory road-abandonment process and recording no land-use objection to two city annexations.

The board denied a rezoning application by Jordi Lara to change parcel 12-216-04-026 at 314 Keith St. from Low Density Single Family Residential (R-2) to General Commercial (C-2). The denial followed a public comment from Gary Oveby, a Keith Street resident who presented a petition signed by neighbors opposing commercial rezoning of that…

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