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Tift County adopts zoning text changes to allow concrete batch and asphalt plants with limits
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Summary
The board approved two zoning text amendments: one permits permanent and portable concrete batch plants in WLI and HI districts with supplemental standards (inward-directed lighting, 6 a.m.–6 p.m. hours, minimum five-acre parcels, arterial-road location) and the other adds asphalt plants to a listed permitted use.
The Tift County Board of Commissioners on April 10 approved two amendments to the county Unified Development Code that change industrial land-use allowances.
Community Development Services Director Chris Davis told the board the Greater Tift County Planning and Zoning Commission had considered both proposals and recommended the changes. For TC-TA-23-01, staff refined supplemental standards to require that property lighting be directed inward, hours of operation be limited to 6:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., operations be located on parcels of at least five acres, and sites be situated on arterial roads. The amendment applies to permanent and portable concrete batch plants in WLI (Wholesale/Light Industrial) and HI (Heavy Industrial) districts.
On a separate item, the board approved TC-TA-23-02 to add "including asphalt plants" to item 5.33 in the Table of Uses, effectively listing asphalt plants among permitted industrial uses in the code.
County Attorney Anthony Rowell opened and closed public hearings on both amendments; no public opposition was recorded. Commissioners approved TC-TA-23-01 as Resolution No. 2023-05 (motion by Commissioner Stan Stalnaker, second by Commissioner Melissa Hughes) and TC-TA-23-02 as Resolution No. 2023-06 (motion by Commissioner Greg Wood, second by Commissioner Fred "Buck" Rigdon). Both motions carried 6-0.
The two amendments change the county's zoning framework for certain industrial operations and add specific operational constraints for concrete batch plants intended to limit off-site impacts. The transcript records the standards adopted for concrete batch plants but does not include additional operational or permitting details beyond those standards.