Park owner alleges profanity from county manager as Commission debates mobile‑home permit changes

During the May 26 work session, Jordan Blackshear, who said he owns roughly 33 mobile‑home parks across Georgia and the two local parks at issue, described several hundred thousand dollars of repairs to the parcels he purchased about a year ago: new decks on most units, roofing on a majority of homes, skirting on 80–90% of units, at least 10 new septic systems, and about $50,000 in road re‑graveling.

Blackshear said a dispute with county staff escalated after the county stopped allowing his crews to use the county dump and after code‑enforcement activity. He said he faces roughly 29 code‑enforcement warnings and one citation and planned to demand a jury trial for the citation on June 5. Blackshear also alleged a verbal exchange with County Manager Thomas Weaver and said the manager told him, "you can just go fuck yourself." He described initiating litigation and said he preferred to settle the practical issues rather than spend on legal fees.

Separately, County Manager Weaver presented proposed amendments to the county's approach for siting manufactured homes. Weaver suggested eliminating the conditional‑use permit (CUP) requirement for manufactured homes placed on parcels zoned RR (rural residential) and A‑1 (agricultural) (with discussion of lowering the A‑1 minimum acreage from 20 to 10 acres), and creating an MHU‑2 zoning category to allow manufactured‑home subdivisions (examples discussed: 1–2 acre minimum lot sizes and a 5‑lot subdivision minimum). Weaver said CUPs would remain for used homes in existing MHU‑1 parks and for other site‑specific exceptions. Commissioner Jason Frost defended the board’s temporary pause on permits as an effort to review permitting and bylaws, saying the pause "was simply an ask that this board take a step back and let's review what we have in place."