Politics & Government
Commission Going Forward With Malcom Bridge Road Roundabouts
The commission awarded bid for first roundabout on Malcom Bridge Road. Two roundabouts at school entrances to be completed at later date.
Oconee County commissioners are going forward with plans for construction of three roundabouts on Macolm Bridge Road, with construction on the first–at Mars Hill Road–to begin this summer.
Construction of roundabouts at the bus entrance and the parent entrance to Malcom Bridge Middle School will take place at a later date, after the county gets new bids for the former and finalizes plans with a developer for the latter.
The county at that point will ask the Oconee County School system to review those plans and indicate how it wants to connect to the roundabouts at the school entrances.
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The Board approved a $1.3 million contract with ER Snell Contractor Inc. of Snellville for the Mars Hill Road and Malcom Bridge Road roundabout at its meeting earlier this month.
At that same meeting, Board approved a rezone for a major expansion of the Oconee Health Campus of Piedmont Athens Regional at Virgil Langford Road and Jennings Mill Road.
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Development in that area is moving at a fast pace, and the Oconee County Planning Commission will take up a major rezone at its meeting Monday night for additional medical and commercial development in that area.
The Commissioners turned down–without any discussion–a request for a variance to allow for an auto impounding lot in Farmington.
For more on this story, with a video of the recent Board of Commissioners meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.