Coffee County Planning Commission chair: five-acre minimum applies only to A1 zoning, not a moratorium

The Coffee County Planning Commission on March 24 clarified that the county’s five‑acre minimum applies only to the A1 zoning district and that “there is no moratorum,” the commission chair said, addressing confusion circulating on social media.

The chair opened the meeting at 4 p.m., invited public comment (none were offered), and led the commission in approval of the meeting agenda and the minutes from the previous meeting. Two plats — a major preliminary for MC England Road and a minor final plat for Fountain Grove Road — were deferred to the commission’s April meeting after required signatures were not completed.

The chair spent the bulk of the meeting explaining how the five‑acre rule works and where it applies. “There is a five‑five acre minimum, but there is no moratorum,” the chair said, adding that the rule applies in the A1 district only and not countywide. He described the limits and size of…