Character Area Amendment Approved

Business, Community, Election

LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga.- The Lumpkin County Commissioners voted to approve the character area amendment after hosting a public hearing to give the developer and citizens an opportunity to speak.

They also approved the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the City over the joint project and the distribution of the TSPLOST, and they called for a resolution to have the TSPLOST placed on the ballot. Commissioner Rhett Stringer made a motion in regard to the transfer station and recycling contract at the meeting as well.

Planning Director Bruce Georgia presented the Board with the request for the amendment to the character area map at the first Sept. work session. The board discussed the amendment and heard public comments at that meeting, to review visit https://lumpkin.fetchyournews.com/2022/09/07/commissioners-discuss-amendment-to-character-area-map/.

Architect Canon Manley while presenting to the board.

Assistant Planning Director Jenna Ritter was present at the public hearing and made a smaller presentation to the board with just the basic information. The registered architect for the project Canon Manley presented for the developer. Manely went through each of the requirements for consideration of a character area amendment.

Manely read off from a letter of intent which can be found http://lumpkincountyga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1645&Inline=True, beginning on page 19. After Manley was finished speaking the public had a chance to comment either in favor of or against the amendment.

In the previous work session, there were two members of the community that spoke in opposition. In this meeting, no public comments were made.

After reviewing the information the commissioners vote to approve with a condition. The clip below is Commissioner Jeff Moran reviewing the condition.

The next item that was approved was the IGA with the City of Dahlonega for the TSPLOST distribution and the joint project as well as a resolution to have the TSPLOST placed on the ballot. The City voted on Sept. 19 to enter into the IGA with the county, to read about that meeting visit https://lumpkin.fetchyournews.com/2022/09/20/city-approves-iga-with-county/.

To see a sample ballot for the election or any other election-related information visit https://www.lumpkincounty.gov/183/Elections-Registration. If the TSPLOST is approved by the voters the city and county will collect on it for five years and get an 81/19 split on the distribution. The joint project will be the Auraria Road, Hwy 52/9 West, and Torrington Road intersections.

The motion Commissioner Stringer made was to maintain the current contract with Mark Robinson for the transfer station and recycling until the end of the Nov. He proposed having signage put up to explain the correct way to recycle and if that system does not work then it may be time for the board to consider charging a fee for the recycling.

Stringer stated that he will work with Robinson on this project. The board approved this motion and will reevaluate again in Nov.

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