Oconee County Has Rejected Request For Residential Sewer For Bogart Subdivision

The Bogart City Council tomorrow (Monday) night is scheduled to take up a residential rezone request in the city that has raised questions about the county’s willingness to grant sewer capacity for a residential development.

At the Planning Commission meeting on Nov. 14, Jon Williams, representing the developers, told the commissioners that the property owners were working with the county to provide residential service to the 37-lot single family subdivision.

Oconee County Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie said subsequently that the county has turned down the request because it does not have the ability to allocate its limited residential sewer capacity for the project.

The Bogart Council will have to decide if it wants to approve the rezone with the condition that it will have to be built with septic tanks rather than county sewer services.

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