Whitfield County approves multiple rezonings, registers no objection to Dalton annexation

The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a series of rezonings and filed no land-use objection to a City of Dalton annexation at its Nov. 11 regular meeting.

Commissioner John Thomas moved, and Commissioner Robby Staten seconded, that the board register no land-use classification objection to Dalton’s annexation of tax parcel 12-184-01-035; the motion passed 4-0. The board then approved multiple planning-commission-recommended rezonings by the same margin.

Among the rezonings approved were: Miguel Arredondo’s request to rezone 7.434 acres on Airport Road from Rural Residential (R-5) to General Agricultural (GA) with an explicit condition prohibiting commercial poultry operations on the parcel; Raul Bibiano’s parcel at 2751 Old Tilton Road from General Commercial (C-2) to Rural Residential (R-5); Hollis Holdings LLC’s 14.62-acre project on Cleveland Highway from GA to Planned Unit Development (PUD); Austin King’s property on Welcome Hill Circle from Single Family Residential (R-2) to General Commercial (C-2); and several acreage-specific GA, SA and R-2 adjustments for Lixandro Ramirez, Scott Anthony Sides, Tanya and William Vasbinder Jr., and Daniel and Louise Wise. Each rezoning was approved 4-0 by the board.

The approvals follow planning commission recommendations; where a condition was specified (for example, the restriction on commercial poultry for the Arredondo parcel), the commission’s recommended condition was included in the board motion.

The board did not take additional action beyond adopting the rezonings and registering its non-objection to the annexation. Any subsequent permitting or site-specific approvals will follow the county’s land-use and permitting procedures.