Oconee County Residents Provide Feedback On Preliminary Components Of Updated Comprehensive Plan

A crowd of approximately 75 people turned out at the Community Center in Oconee Veterans Park on Thursday night to review the work to date on the Oconee County Joint Comprehensive Plan for 2018.

In a two-hour session, those in attendance could visit four different stations with five different posters or story boards about elements of the update to the county’s Comprehensive Plan.

Most of those in attendance came in the first half hour of the session, when 61 persons had signed their names to a sheet at a table at the front of the room.

By the time the posters were taken down at 8 p.m., 68 names were on the sheets, but several people entered the room without signing in.

Those in attendance included four of the five members of the Board of Commissioners, at least 10 of the 29 members of the citizen Stakeholders Committee helping with the rewrite of the 2008 Comprehensive Plan, and the three staff members of the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission who organized the meeting.

For more on the story, including a short video from the meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Citizens look at proposed Future Development Map.