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Heard County denies rezoning request to subdivide property; adjacent application withdrawn
Summary
The Heard County Board of Commissioners on May 21 denied a rezoning request from resident Ralph Caldwell to subdivide a 1.12-acre parcel at 4944 Hollingsworth Ferry Road and recorded the withdrawal of a related 2.69-acre application on Webb Road.
Ralph Caldwell asked the Heard County Board of Commissioners on May 21 to rezone 1.12 acres at 4944 Hollingsworth Ferry Road from Rural Development to Single-Family Residential so he could divide a parcel that contains two former rental houses and sell each home separately. Caldwell told the board he no longer intends to rent the houses and submitted a related application to rezone a 2.69-acre Webb Road tract to ensure each resulting lot would meet the county's one-acre minimum for residential parcels.
The request stalled twice. An initial motion to approve the rezoning failed for lack of a second. After the board amended the agenda and returned to the item, Commissioner Iris Harris moved to approve the rezoning contingent on adding 0.88 acres from an adjacent property so each subdivided tract would total one acre; that motion produced a roll-call of one yes (Harris), two no votes (Commissioners Larry Hammond and David Walls) and one abstention (Commissioner James Perry), and did not secure approval.
Caldwell had asked that his second application for the 2.69-acre tract be withdrawn if the first application failed; the board recorded the withdrawal of the Webb Road application. The board did not set additional conditions or next steps on the denied request during the meeting.
The matter drew public comment and procedural attention during the meeting but the board did not approve any rezoning for Mr. Caldwell at this session.
