Oconee County Commissioners Vote To Terminate Lease On Dolvin Property, Go Into Executive Session With Atlanta Developer

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners voted 3-1 Tuesday night to move the Planning Department, Code Enforcement and three other offices out of the Dolvin buildings within the year but gave no indicate where it will move them.

Commissioner Jim Luke, who voted against the motion to terminate the lease for the Dolvin buildings, said he did so because he wasn’t confident the county would have a place to put those offices.

The Board of Commissioners Tuesday night also went into executive session with Atlanta Developer Frank Bishop, who has been in discussion with the county over the last year about construction of an extension of Parkway Boulevard. That extension would make more accessible land Bishop has had under option across from Epps Bridge Centre, which he developed.

Also Tuesday night, the commissioners got an upate from Jimmy Parker, project manager for the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir in southeastern Walton County.

Parker told the Board that design work on a water treatment plant for the reservoir was being initiated in case Walton and Oconee counties, partners in the project, get a request from a large industry for water from the reservoir. Neither county at present has a need for water to serve its residential customers.

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Pictured: Commissioner Jim Luke.