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Ware County approves zoning changes, closes roads and removes 10,000-foot solar buffer
Summary
The board approved multiple rezoning requests and text amendments to clean up split zoning, closed a platted Center Street and an Emerson Park alley, and amended the county solar ordinance to remove the prior 10,000-foot minimum buffer between solar farms.
Ware County commissioners voted on several land-use and zoning matters during the Dec. 8 meeting, approving multiple rezonings and a pair of property-closure requests and passing a text amendment to the county's solar farm ordinance.
The board voted to rezone 355 E. Blackshear Avenue from R-50MH (residential) to C-1 (neighborhood commercial) to allow use of an existing building on church property as a recording studio; Commissioner Jon Tindall moved the rezoning and it passed by roll call. Separately, commissioners denied a request to rezone the northern portion of parcel 036H03 002 from RS (residential single-family) to A-1 (agriculture-forestry); that motion passed with Commissioner Barry Cox recorded as the lone dissenting vote.
Commissioners also approved rezoning portions of Parcels 051C05 012, 051C05 013 and 051C05 014 from R-75 to C-3 to eliminate split-zoned parcels, and they approved text amendments to Article III, Subsection 302.67 and Article VII, Subsections 707.5 and 706.3 of the Ware County Code of Ordinances.
On property-closure items, the board authorized the closure of a section of Center Street in the South Deenwood Subdivision after staff said the road was platted but never constructed; adjacent property owners retain alternate access. The commission also approved abandoning the alley in Block 218 of Emerson Park Subdivision, returning the unused right-of-way to the property owner and thus putting it back on the tax rolls.
In a notable zoning-policy change, the board approved an amendment to Chapter 78, Article V, Sec. 78-160(b) subsections 7 & 8 to remove the 10,000 linear-foot minimum distance buffer between solar farms. The minutes do not record further debate about the practical implications but record a unanimous vote among those present.
Votes on rezoning, map cleanups, text amendments and property-closure measures were recorded by roll call; Commissioner Timmy Lucas was absent for all votes recorded in the minutes.
