Planning staff present fee updates in Rockdale County text amendment 2025-10

Planning staff presented Text Amendment 2025-10 to the Rockdale County Board of Commissioners during a zoning public hearing, saying the ordinance would amend Subpart B (Planning and Development) of the county code to update application requirements and to align fee language with the county's recently adopted fee schedule.

Mr. Spivey of planning staff said, "This is Text Amendment 2025-10...we adopted the new fees and this item has fees in it. We just updated the fees to match the new fee schedule." He presented the amendment as an administrative update rather than a substantive policy change to zoning standards.

The clerk noted there were two text-amendment items on the agenda and that "we have no one signed up to speak either in for or against for those items," so no public testimony was taken at the hearing on the fee amendment. The transcript does not record a committee vote or final action on TA 2025-10 during this meeting; the item was presented for consideration.

Procedural motions earlier in the meeting included an approved motion to amend the agenda to remove a withdrawn application for 2880 Southwest Highway 212 and an approved motion to accept the minutes from Aug. 28, 2025. Planning staff indicated the fee language in TA 2025-10 is meant to match the county's new fee schedule, but the transcript does not include the specific fee amounts.

The board did not take a recorded final vote on TA 2025-10 at this meeting. The item was presented by planning staff and may return for further consideration or a formal vote at a later meeting.