Politics & Government
Oconee County Commissioners Approve Presbyterian Homes Rezone Request In 4-0 Vote
Commissioners add conditions that will add traffic to Hog Mountain Road and U.S. 441 intersection.
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 Tuesday night to grant Presbyterian Homes of Georgia its rezone request to build a continuing care retirement community on 70 acres fronting U.S. 441 and Wellbrook Road.
The commissioners stipulated that Presbyterian Homes must limit traffic leaving the main entrance to the campus on U.S. 441 to right-hand turns and allow only right-hand turns for traffic entering.
And they stipulated that traffic coming out of the secondary entrance and exit on Wellbrook Road can only turn left.
Those two decisions addressed two of the concerns of opponents–that a left-turn into and out of the facility would be unsafe and that right turns out of the Wellbrook Road exist would direct traffic through the residential areas of Lake Wellbrook and Phinizy Meadows.
But the conditions will direct more traffic along Wellbrook Road to its intersection with Hog Mountain Road. That intersection is a short distance away from the Hog Mountain Road terminus at U.S. 441.
Opponents tonight and at earlier meetings described that intersection as already overburdened and congested.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Commissioners voting. (Video is at Oconee County Observations.)