BOC will hear Broadband Ordinance proposal during Thursday’s work session

DAWSON COUNTY, Ga. – The Board of Commissioners will hold a voting session Thursday (June 17)  immediately following the work session which begins at 4 p.m. in the Government Center Assembly Room, 25 Justice Way in Dawsonville.

The voting session will begin with a public hearing on a Comprehensive Plan update and a possible extension of an existing moratorium on the Acceptance for Approval of Final Subdivision Plats that Create New Roads.

Commissioners will then hear the following zoning requests:

• ZA 20-25 – Fall Leaf Residential requests to rezone TMP 085-016 from RSR (Residential Sub-Rural) to RS2 (Residential Suburban 2) for the purpose of developing a 120-residential-lot-subdivision (Highway 9 South)
• ZA 21-10 – Chip Green requests to rezone TMP 104-062 and 104-061 from CHB (Commercial Highway Business) to CHI (Commercial Highway Intensive) for the purpose of opening a landscape supply business (Highway 53 East and Gober Road);
• ZA 21-11 – Jim King requests to rezone 23.11 acres of TMP 114-033-005, 114-018, 114-033-001 and 114-046-001 from RA (Residential Agriculture) and CCB (Commercial Community Business) to CHB (Commercial Highway Business) for the purpose of building a retail/office/warehouse space;
• ZA 21-13 – Dawson County requests to rezone TMP 114-019 from RA (Residential Agriculture) to RMF (Residential Multi-Family) for the purpose of constructing 89 townhomes (Highway 53 and Hughes Court).
• ZA 21-09 – Dawson County requests to vary from the Dawson County Land Use Resolution Article III, Section 308 C.6.b. (Highway 53 and Hughes Court).

Under New Business, commissioners will consider and updated Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension State Office

Other New Business items include:

• Consideration of IFB #382-21 – Road Rehabilitation Project for Dawson County for the full reclamation of Howser Mill Road, G.W. Taffer Road, and Wesley Chapel Road. Blount Construction was the low bidder on the project at $2,394,552.11;

3. Consideration of Board Appointments:
4. EMS Advisory Council Danny Thompson- reappointment (Term: July 2021 through June 2024)
5. Library Board appointments Peter Thomas — reappointment (Term: July 2021 through June 2025)
6. Alexandria Williams- replacing Susan Roof (Term: July 2021 through June 2025)

During the work session, commissioners will consider a request by Family Connection to accept an Underage Drinking Prevention Stipend Awarded to Family Connection by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration.

Also to be considered is a request by KARE for Kids, host of the annual Mountain Moonshine Festival for use of county facilities for parking space during the festival which runs from Oct. 22-24.

County Attorney Angela Davis will present a proposed Broadband Ready Community Ordinance to regulate applications to provide broadband service to the county.

Planning Director Jameson Kinley will present proposed updates to the Animal Control Ordinance to include new definitions of a dangerous dog, vicious animal and new sections on neglect and penalties.