Oconee County Planning Commission Recommends Special Use For Noncompliant Landscaping Business

Twelve-year-old Jack Senyitko gave a flawless presentation to the Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night, arguing, on behalf of his family, against a special use request to operate a landscaping business on the northwest corner of New High Shoals Road and Union Church Road.

The young Senyitko’s comments won the praise of Planning Commission Chairman Dan Arnold, but not his vote.

In the end, with Arnold breaking the tie, the Planning Commission voted 6-5 to recommend to the Oconee County Board of Commissioners that it approve the special use request by Chad and Marilyn Forehand to be allowed to continue to operate a noncompliant landscaping business on land zoned for agricultural use.

Committee members ignored–if they knew–that the Forehand’s business license for the landscaping operation had expired at the end of 2013 and that the Forehand’s are in violation of a court order to have gotten a business license and the special use permit by the end of 2016.

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

Pictured: Jack Senyitko At Planning Commission 5/15/2017.