A Parker Creek Road property owner is asking the Oconee County Planning Commission to grant him a special use permit so he can lease 120 square feet of his property to Verizon Wireless for construction of a telecommunications tower.
Verizon says the new 190-foot monopole will allow it to “greatly improve existing wireless service” in northwestern Oconee County, including the community of Eastville and along Malcom Bridge, Hodges Mill and Hog Mountain roads.
The request by Robert W. Strickland, 1571 Parker Creek Road, is one of three zoning issues on the agenda of the Planning Commission, which is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow night in the courthouse.
The Commission also will review a request by RWJ Inc. to rezone just less than two acres of land now designated for Office Institutional Professional use so they can be incorporated into the existing Meridian subdivision off Mars Hill Road.
A third request before the Planning Commission is for special use approval for a sign manufacturing facility inside the Lampkin Branch Business Park off U.S. 441 just north of Watkinsville.
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