Community Corner
Oconee County Development Authority Selling Land On SR 316 For Use As Shooting Range
The shooting range would be in an area south of SR 316 at McNutt Creek Road and Pete Dickens Road that is now residential.
The Oconee County Industrial Development Authority has entered into a contract to sell Andrew Clyde of Clyde Armory 18 acres south of SR 316 so Clyde can build a shooting range on the site.
Clyde will need to get a change in zoning for the land, now classified for agricultural use, before he can build the shooting range.
Zoning changes are made by the Oconee County Board of Commissioners, and six of the IDA’s 11 members are appointed by the Board of Commissioners.
BOC Chairman Melvin Davis serves on the IDA as an ex-officio member.
The land surrounding the proposed shooting range also is zoned agricultural, but most of the small tracts have homes on them, and the area is residential in character.
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