Oconee County Review Committee Approved Site Plans For Retail Building Near Oconee Health Campus

The Oconee County Development Review Committee has approved the preliminary site plans for an 11,500-square-foot retail building on Jennings Mill Road opposite the newly opened Piedmont Athens Regional Oconee Health Campus.

The retail building will be on one of four lots on a 5 acre parcel tucked between Jennings Mill Road and the Oconee Connector at SR Loop 10. The recently cleared land abuts another 2.5-acre-parcel at the corner of Virgil Langford Road and Jennings Mill Road.

The Oconee County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on July 17 for rezone of a nearby parcel between the Oconee Connector and Daniells Bridge Road that currently houses the Barber Creek Fire Station.

The county is seeking to convert that property of just less than 1 acre to business use as it prepares to move the fire station to a so-far-unspecified location in the area.

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

Pictured: Rezone sign at Fire Station.