Commission To Review Request For Entrance To JP And Burger King

Oconee County Commissioners Tuesday night will decide if William Jones is allowed to have an entrance to his planned JP convenience store, gas station, and Burger King off Mars Hill Road just before it intersects with U.S. 78.

They also will decide if John Hadden’s Damn Good Dawg Farms on Cliff Dawson Road should be granted a special use variance to decrease the buffer of his blueberry farm operation from surrounding properties, including those zoned residential.

They also will decide if Stonebridge Partners LLC should be granted a variance to waive buffers between office use and commercial use and single family residential use on nearly 40 acres on Stonebridge Parkway east of Butler’s Crossing.

These three decisions and other zoning requests are on an agenda dominated by decisions made by the county’s Planning Commission at its June meeting.

The Board also will give final approval to a series of items put on its consent agenda at its meeting last week, including an amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreements between the county and Bishop, North High Shoals and Watkinsville allowing the county to take responsibility for all aspects of elections in the three cities.

For more on the story, with videos of the Planning Commission and Board of Commissioners meeting last month, please go to Oconee County Observations.