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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Vol. 15 No. 51 A publication of MainStreet Newspapers, Inc. www.BraseltonNewsTODAY.com 12 pages
WJMS art students
place at state
Multiple West Jackson Middle School art students placed at a recent state
competiton in Perry D4r _ _.
Grant money
Jackson EMC contributed grant money
to a host of local organizations
PAGE12A
South Hall
349-home
subdivision
approved in
South Hall
By Ben Munro
ben@mainstreetnews. com
A large residential de
velopment will be com
ing to South Hall after it
recently gained approval
from county leaders.
At its November voting
meeting, the Hall County
Board of Commission
ers (BOC) unanimously
passed a rezoning to allow
for a 349-unit subdivision
planned for 116 acres off
Friendship Rd.
The project developer,
Scott Puckett, Inc., was
granted a rezoning from
Agricultural-Residential
III to a Planned Residen
tial Development for the
project.
Plans call for a mix of
209 single-family resi
dences and 140 townho-
mes. The single-family
homes will range from
2.000 to 2,500 square feet
of space, while townho-
mes would range between
1.600 and 1.800 square
feet. Included in the plan
is nearly 37 acres of open
See BOC, page 3A
South Hall
Lit up for the holidays
Photo by Ben Munro
The Hoschton depot and water tower along Hwy. 53 are lit up for the Christmas season.
Flowery Branch
teen charged
with involuntary
manslaughter
A Flowery Branch teen
ager has been charged with
involuntary manslaughter in
connection to the drug over
dose death of a co-worker
earlier this year.
According to a press re
lease from the Hall County
Sheriffs Office (HCSO),
HCSO investigators arrest
ed Brandon Jared Soto on
Friday, Nov. 18. The inves
tigation revealed Soto and
the victim. Halaya Graciela
See Overdose, page 12A
INDEX
News ...
1-3A
Opinion ...
4A
Public safety
... 5A
School...
6A
Classifieds ...
7 A
Obituaries ...
8A-9A
Sports ..
10A
Retired medical director at
NGMC-Gainesville honored with
inaugural philanthropy award
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MAILING LABEL
Hoschton
Jackson Co. BOC
225 apartments
sought for Hoschton
mixed-use development
A developer will seek to
build 225 apartments, rather
than construct condomini
ums, as part of a proposed
planned-unit development on
11.5 acres fronting Industrial
Blvd.. White St. and Hwy. 53
in Hoschton.
The Hoschton City Coun
cil will hold a public hearing
over the request on Dec. 15
at 5:30 p.m. at the city’s train
depot with a potential vote
during its Dec. 19 (5:30 p.m.)
meeting.
Applicant Ridgeline Land
Planning. LLC. and property
owner. Winpeacock, LLC, seek
to change the zoning condi
tions of approval for a planned
unit development (PUD) for
this project from residential
condominiums to market-rate
Class-A apartments. The ap
plicant also asks to reduce the
dwelling sizes of some of the
apartment units from the 750
square-foot minimum.
The proposed use for this
project is a mixed-use planned-
unit development.
The proposed PUD was
slated to come before the city
council back in August but
property owner, Sri Kumar, of
Winpeacock, LLC, withdrew
the item from the agenda.
In other business, the coun
cil will hold public hearings on
Dec. 15 over these matters:
•Property owner and ap
plicant Joy Nicole Morrison
seeks to rezone 0.36 acres
fronting Jefferson Ave. from
R-2 (single-family suburban
residential district) to MFR
(multiple-family residential
district) for a duplex.
•Applicant Rochester and
Associates and property own
er Kolter Land Partners, LLC,
seeks four variances reduc
ing the minimum front build
ing setback for Twin Lakes
Planned Unit Development
(PUD) conditional zonings to
allow for single-family dwell
ings. The requested variances
are 15 feet to 10 feet for 0.159
acres at 309 Shasta Ct.; 15 feet
to eight feet for 0.182 acres at
108 Champlain Rd.; 15 feet to
seven feet for 0.21 acres at 264
Canyon Ferry Way: and 15 feet
to eight feet for 0.17 acres at
261 Conroe Ct.
Applicant
withdraws requests
for Braselton
psychiatric facility
By Hannah Barron
hannah@mainstreetnews. com
Requests that would have allowed for a teen
psychiatric facility in Braselton have been
withdrawn.
Applicant Moishe Shemtov had asked for a
change in condition and a special use permit
for 3.16 acres on Davenport Rd. for a teen res
idential treatment facility. He wanted to allow
more than 15 people to reside at the facility,
planning space for up to 24 patients aged 13-
17.
The Jackson County Planning Commis
sion recommended denial in October. The
requests were set to come before the Jackson
County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 21,
but Shemtov asked for the request to be with
drawn prior to the meeting.
OTHER ZONING MATTERS
In other business on Nov. 21, the BOC:
• approved a request to consent to the pro
posed de-annexation of a 1.81 acre-tract of
land within the town limits of Braselton.
•approved a map amendment for 1.409
acres at 7957 Hwy. 53, Braselton, to change
the use from residential to commercial for a
gun shop.
•approved the rezoning of 3.68 acres at
1682 Gum Springs Church Rd. from A-2 to
See Zoning, page 3A
Business
‘BraseltonTec’ to offer workshops for tech start-ups
BraseltonTec — a pri
vate-public initiative be
tween the Town of Bra
selton and the Advanced
Technology Development
Center (ATDC) at Georgia
Tech — is launching its
“spark sessions” in Janu
ary.
These workshops, held
at the Braselton Civic
Center, will provide in
formation for start-up tech
companies covering fund
raising, cap-table forma
tion, marketing strategy
and a host of topics led by
experts. The first session
is Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. It will
discuss the difference be
tween “a lifestyle business
and a scalable unicorn and
the steps toward startup
success.”
The town has partnered
with ATDC, which is a
See Workshops, page 12A
Photo by Ben Munro
BraseltonTec will host its “Spark Session” work
shops for startup tech companies at the Bra
selton Civic Center. These sessions will begin in
January.
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