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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Braselton News
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RETAIL— continued from page 1A
MAYFIELD — continued from page 1A
Special events set at Mayfield
Mayfield Dairy Farms will celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its
Braselton plant with several special events this week.
Through Friday, Mayfield will be selling its single-scoop ice
cream at the 1997 price of $.50.
On Thursday, Oct. 25, Scottie Mayfield, president of the com
pany, will be signing autographs at the visitor’s center throughout
the day.
On Friday, Oct. 26, the mobile dairy classroom will visit
the Braselton facility from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The mobile dairy
classroom teaches students where milk comes from and how it
is produced.
Also on Friday, WNGC’s George Mason Dixon will do a live
radio remote from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
drive-ins, such as coffee stores or
drug stores, he said.
Snedecor said there is no inten
tion to open a fast-food estab
lishment or other “less desirable”
application.
“This is designed to be a vil
lage-type concept,” Snedecor said,
while adding the development will
have sidewalks and other mea
sures to encourage customers to
stay longer in the retail center.
OPPOSED TO PLAN
Mickey Wages, a resident of
Chateau Elan, said he was opposed
to any changes to the zoning con
ditions.
“I don’t think there was any
desire for it to be just another strip
center,” he said.
Wages said any drive-in — even
one for coffee shop — would
not fit the proposed “village-type”
concept for the development, as
drive-ins would not encourage
customers to spend time in the
center and enjoy the environment.
Grant Carlson, another Chateau
Elan resident, said the shop
ping center would not enhance
Braselton’s appearance. He also
said it would create a dangerous
traffic situation at the intersection
of Hwy. 211 and Liberty Church
Road.
Snedecor said the Georgia
Department of Transportation has
approved a traffic light at the
intersection, which the developer
will fund.
Braselton planning director
Kevin Keller confirmed that the
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DOT approved a traffic light at the
intersection and engineering work
is underway.
RECOMMENDED
APPROVAL
The Braselton Planning
Commission recommended that
a zoning condition restricting
drive-in windows to banks and
dry cleaning establishments be
removed. The planners also rec
ommended that a conditional use
permit for a drive-in restaurant be
granted.
Lensned also requested that
a zoning condition requiring a
50-foot buffer adjacent to resi
dential property be reduced to a
25-foot buffer.
That request was also rec
ommended for approval by the
Braselton Planning Commission,
which added that two rows of trees
must be planted along the perim
eter of the property next to resi
dences. A fence is also planned.
Planning commission member
Edd Price said the current zoning
regulations would have allowed
the developer to plant the trees at
the bottom of a steep hill — and
not the top of the hill to block the
view of residences.
Snedecor said reducing the buf
fer would give the builder more
flexibility to install parking space
and utilities, but the location of
the proposed buildings would not
change. He also said the 25-foot
buffer is a standard for other com
mercial projects in the area.
The Braselton Planning
Commission denied a request by
Lensned to reduce a 40-foot buf
fer along Hwy. 211 to a five-foot
landscape strip. Snedecor said his
company didn’t object to that rec
ommendation.
PROPERTY HISTORY
The property that includes the
15.2-acre commercial project
has been a controversial project
since the Braselton Town Council
approved annexation and rezoning
plans in December 2001.
At that time, the 214-acre prop
erty was rezoned to Planned Unit
Development (PUD) for more than
500 houses with no commercial
development.
Barrow County officials filed
a lawsuit against the town in
January 2002, objecting to the
annexation and rezoning of prop
erty, saying the 500-home project
would require too many services
for fire protection and schools for
the neighborhood.
A legal compromise between
Braselton, Barrow County and the
developer resulted in earmarking
16 acres of the project for com
mercial space at the intersection
of Hwy. 211 and Liberty Church
Road in Barrow County.
In August 2002, a number of
Chateau Elan residents asked
town officials to move the com
mercial project further north on
Hwy. 211, next to the Mulberry
Walk Shopping Center. Moving
the commercial project further
north, however, would place it in
Gwinnett County.
Braselton plant from 100 employees
to more than 225 employees working
three shifts, Thompson said. Twenty-
nine of those people have worked
more than 10 years locally, when
Mayfield Dairy had a small office in
Jefferson.
As business among area grocery
stores and schools have expanded, so
has Mayfield’s Braselton plant.
The facility has been expanded
from about 68,000 square feet in
1997 to more than 80,000 square feet
with the addition of more cold stor
age space and a case dock.
In 1997, Mayfield produced about
55,000-60,000 gallons of milk a day
at its Braselton facility — today,
the plant now produces more than
150,000 gallons a day, Thompson
said.
The milk that is manufactured in
Braselton is distributed to Atlanta,
Marietta, northern Georgia and
Greenville, S.C., according to the
company. While the visitor’s cen
ter sells Mayfield ice cream, the
Braselton facility doesn’t produce
ice cream.
Each week, Mayfield delivers
about 2 million half-pint milk con
tainers to Georgia schools, including
those in Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett,
DeKalb and Cobb counties.
Mayfield plans to expand its opera
meeting with the school board.
Brannigan reiterated the neighbor
hood’s goals of keeping the commu
nity intact, focusing on what is good
for the entire county, limiting impact
on students and preparing for future
growth.
Hamilton Mill United is asking the
school board to send all of Hamilton
Mill’s elementary students to the new
Puckett's Mill Elementary. Brannigan
said residents would prefer to stay at
Duncan Creek ES, but, after examin
ing maps and enrollment forecasts,
residents realized that would result in
overcrowding at Duncan Creek while
tion next year to include the produc
tion of the plastic, half pint contain
ers that are delivered to institutions,
such as schools.
Schools also serve another key
factor at the Braselton visitor’s center
— a large number of students take
tours of the facility each year. The
Braselton visitor’s center also wel
comes plenty of day care centers and
home school students, Thompson
said.
Mayfield also continues to draw a
large number of its visitors from inter
state motorists who see billboards on
1-85, Thompson said. Some of those
motorists include senior groups,
other schools would be underutilized.
The current plan proposed by GCPS
would keep both Duncan Creek ES
and Fort Daniel ES over capacity
through the 2011-2012 school year
while Puckett’s Mill ES would be well
under capacity. The plan proposed by
Hamilton Mill United would keep
Puckett’s Mill ES and Fort Daniel
ES under capacity and Duncan Creek
near capacity for the next four years.
Brannigan said Hamilton Mill’s plan
does a better job of balancing enroll
ments and allowing for continued
growth than that of the school board.
Brannigan told homeowners that
church groups and summer camps,
she added.
Tours of the Braselton plant are
available Mondays through Fridays,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on
Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
visitor’s center is closed on Sundays.
Tours begin every 30 minutes
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays, with the exception of no
tours at noon. Tours on Saturdays are
every hour on the hour. No tours are
held on Wednesdays. The last tour
begins one hour before closing.
For more information, visit
www.mayfielddairy.com or call
1 -800-M AYFIELD.
members of the neighborhood’s redis
tricting committee have requested a
meeting with the school board to dis
cuss their concerns. The school board
has denied the request saying they
have already established a process
for listening to community members
through the public input meetings.
Brannigan emphasized the impor
tance of the upcoming input meeting
and encouraged all homeowners to
attend.
The public input meeting will be
held at 7 pm on Nov. 15 at the GCPS
Instructional Support Center located at
437 Old Peachtree Road in Suwanee.
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