County Issues New Citations Against Landscaper

Oconee County has been trying since August of last year to get Chad Forehand to stop operating a landscaping business at New High Shoals Road and Union Church Road.

County code enforcement officers have filed new citations charging they have not been successful.

The county charged Forehand with operating PS Landscaping on land not zoned for business on Aug. 24, 2017, and for operating without a business license on Oct. 11, 2017.

Forehand was scheduled to appear in Oconee County Magistrate Court on March 2 on those citations, but neither he nor his attorney appeared, and the trail before Judge Sam Barth did not take place.

Beginning on Feb. 2 of this year and continuing through March 1, the county has issued 12 additional citations for violations of Oconee County Ordinances, charging Forehand does not have a certificate of occupancy for his building and his property is not zoned for a landscaping business.

Forehand is scheduled to appear in Magistrate Court on April 13 on the two charges filed against him in 2017.

For more on this story, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Forehand property.