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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 The Braselton News Page 3A o o Hoschton 18 townhomes approved on Henry St. By Ben Munro ben@mainstreetnews. com A few more townhomes will be coming into Hoschton. The Hoschton City Council on Monday (Nov. 21) approved an 18-townhome development on 2.37 acres on Henry St. With a 5-1 vote, the council granted a rezoning from RM single family urban residential district (conditional) to multiple family residential district for the property to allow for the project. New council member Debbie Martin voted in opposition. The applicant, George Flani gan, sought to build 24 townho mes, but a condition of approval limited tire number of units to 18. Road improvements are included in the conditions. During public comment, resi dent Christina Brown cautioned against the approval of more resi dences. Brown referenced the im pending number of townhomes and single-family residences that are either being built or will even tually be added to the city. She said approving more residences will only worsen the city’s traffic problem. ‘Traffic is a nightmare,” Brown said. “I just think that in general I would request that tire council would consider this ev er-increasing density. The zoning from single-family to townhomes has been persistent and unrelent ing, and I don’t think it's good for the city. What’s not good for tire citizenry is not good for the city.” CONNECTION FEE INCREASES APPROVED The council adopted a new water connection fee of $3,000, up from $2,250, to help shift water-system costs to developers and prevent city customers from paying higher rates. City engineer Jerry Hood from EMI said tire city will need $8.1 million to serve the next 2,700 homes in Hoschton. “So what we’d like to do is have our up-front connection fee, capacity fees, commensurate to pay that off without raising the user rates,” Hood said. Similarly, Mayor Lauren O'Leary said this increase “will help assist us from having to con tinuously keep raising the prices for water.” Additionally, Hood said the city will need $9 million to ser vice the next wave of customers for wastewater. This would pro vide capacity for about 1,800 new homes. Hood said the cur rent $5,000 sewer connection fee "would be commensurate to cover that cost.” OTHER BUSINESS In other business, the council: •approved a subdivision reg ulation amendment requiring homeowners’ associations of new subdivisions to pay for streetlight bills. •approved a city cemetery or dinance amendment restricting what items can be placed around gravesites in a section of the city cemetery. Tire amendment would prohibit items such as bench es, flagpoles, fixtures, inclosed monument shelters, trees and shrubs. Coping — a stone frame outlining of the graves — will be pennitted in this section of tire cemetery, however. This amend ment is part of an effort to clean up the city cemetery. The council previously adopted a similar ordi nance for a separate section of the cemetery. •approved tire application of $722,000 — $500,000 of which will come from SPLOST — to ward the city's water system debt. The payment will bring the bal ance down to $2 million. Interim City Manager Jennifer Kidd-Har- rison noted that the debt stood at around $9 million about a decade ago when she began working for the city. •approved a clerical update to the city's budget, at the sugges tion of the city’s auditor, to add American Relief funding for waterline upgrades to indicate the money has yet to be spent. •approved $11,217 for layout and stripe lines for Town Center Pkwy. due to 300 townhomes be ing added along tire road. •approved repairs to tire curve on West Jackson Rd. which has been crumbled by heavy truck traffic. •approved a temporaiy outdoor alcohol special event permit for Rock Hard Spirits for Hoschton’s Dec. 17 Jingle Mingle and a reso lution to allow serving of alcohol at tire holiday event. •approved the final plat for 18 townhomes on Broad St. near the city depot. •introduced new employee Jessica Green, who will serve as the director of the city's down town development authority and will also assist with city adminis trative duties. Zoning continued from 1A AR to divide the property into Hull, from A-R to M-H for a and New Kings Bridge Rd„ two tracts to build a house. manufactured home. Athens, from A-3 to A-2 for • approved the rezoning of • approved the rezoning a large-lot subdivision (over 8 2.13 acres at 837 WardlawRd., of 112.24 acres at Drew Ln. acres.) BOC continued from 1A space. Proposed amenities include an open-air cabana, pool, dog park, open-air covered pavilion, outdoor workout equipment and grilling area. There’s an option of 1,500 feet of four- foot wide walking trails. The density of the project is three units per acre, as recommended by the Hall County Planning Commis sion. Hall County planning staff had recommended de nial of the rezoning, citing the density. The planning commission, however, rec ommended approval with 10 conditions. No one spoke against the development during a pub lic hearing held by the BOC for the rezoning request. In other news related to South Hall, the BOC ap proved a rezoning from Agricultural-Residential IV to Planned Residential Dis trict, with 24 conditions, for a 135-unit townhome devel opment at the intersection of Old Winder Hwy. and Union Church Rd. The subdivision is pro posed by Atlas Develop ment Services, Inc. Commissioner Kathy Cooper, who represents District 1 in which this project is planned, recused herself from discussion and voting on the rezoning. The proposed project site is just over 19 acres with a density 7.03 lots per acre. The townhomes would be a minimum of 1,600 square feet. A pool was removed from the amenity package. Sewer for the development would be accessed along Howington Rd. The subdivision would be situated across from “Rev eille,” a 491-acre planned commercial development. No one spoke against the rezoning request during public comment. Yes! Sign me up for one year of: The Braselton News Please mail to: Subscriptions The Braselton News P.O. 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