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Gillsville council keeps 40-foot road-frontage rule as resident seeks rezoning for two-acre lots
Summary
Resident Clark Hawkes told the council he plans to give roughly two-acre parcels to his children and asked for a reduced road-frontage requirement; the council affirmed the zoning book's 40-foot frontage rule and agreed to begin a rezoning request at the next meeting.
On Feb. 3, 2025, the Gillsville Town Council reviewed a request from resident Clark Hawkes and decided to uphold the town's 40-foot road-frontage requirement for residential lots while initiating a rezoning request the Hawkes family proposed.
Clark Hawkes, identified at the meeting as a citizen in attendance, said he plans to give his two children and their spouses a little over 2 acres to build houses and asked the council to allow a road-frontage smaller than 100 feet. After consulting the town zoning book, council members noted the residential road-frontage requirement is 40 feet and determined to keep that standard in place.
The Hawkes family also requested that their property be rezoned to Residential to permit the proposed houses on the parcels. Council members agreed to begin the formal rezoning process at the next meeting; no final rezoning decision was made at this session.
The decision preserves the town's existing frontage rule while allowing the property owner to pursue the administrative rezoning process. The council did not set a timeline for the rezoning procedure at the Feb. 3 meeting.
