Commissioners deny special exception to place manufactured home on 75.59-acre parcel

The Spalding County Board of Commissioners voted on June 25 to deny a special-exception request (Application 2605s) from Amy Coleman Schaefer to place a manufactured home on an AR1 parcel in land-lot 112 (parcel 204 01003D), a tract listed as 75.59 acres.

Staff presented a GIS trend report indicating an observable shift toward single-family stick-built homes and a decrease in mobile-home placements. Eli, staff working with GIS, told the board the trend data supports a staff recommendation to deny the exception. On the record, staff stated that if the board wished to approve, two conditions were enumerated in the staff report for consideration.

The board first voted to lift the application from the table for further consideration. After discussion and a motion to deny, commissioners voted to deny the special-exception request. No conditions were adopted; the application was not approved.

The transcript records the vote by raised-hands roll-call confirmations (notated in the transcript as '40' during similar votes); the meeting did not record a detailed roll-call tally for the denial in verbatim form beyond the motion, the second and the chair's call for raised hands.

Because this was a denial of a requested zoning exception, the applicant retains any administrative or appeal rights provided by county ordinance and state law; the board did not adopt alternative conditions permitting the manufactured home.