Oconee County To Hold Hearing On A Landfill, Discuss Overlay District, Consider Zoning For A Business Park-All On Tuesday

Oconee County is holding three meetings on Tuesday dealing with a permit for the county’s inert landfill, the Mars Hill Road Overlay District, and a rezone request for a business park at the corner of the U.S. 441 bypass and New High Shoals Road.

Two of the meetings actually overlap.

The county will hold a hearing from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the conference room at the Government Annex building, 1291 Greensboro Highway (SR 15), on the south side of Watkinsville, to get citizen input on the inert landfill.

The county was informed in July that its request for a permit to continue operating its landfill in the south of the county just north of Heritage Park has been denied.

The Citizen Advisory Committee for Land Use and Transportation Planning announced on Thursday that it plans to discuss the proposed Mars Hill Overlay District at its meeting at the Community Center in Veterans Park, starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

The agenda item is a surprise, as Bill Ross, county consultant on the overlay district project, had told the Board of Commissioners at its meeting on Sept. 29 that he would present his proposed ordinance to the Land Use Committee at its meeting on Nov. 10.

The Board of Commissioners, meeting at 7 p.m. in the Courthouse in Watkinsville, will take up the rezone request for a business park on the nearly 10 acres just north of Thomas Orchard just outside the Watkinsville city limits.

For more on the three meetings, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Site of rezone request.