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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com Wednesday, January 17,2024 Obituaries Dorothy Singleton January 17, 1934- January 10, 2024 Dorothy Singleton, 89, of Dawsonville passed away Wednesday, January 10, 2024 following a period of declining health. Born January 17, 1934 in Lumpkin County to the late Roscoe and Leila Thurmond, she had lived in Dawson County since she was 3 years old. Dorothy was a graduate of Dawson County High School. Mrs. Singleton was employed by the Dawson County Board of Education as the secretary at the High School for eleven years after which she worked for nine years for the Georgia Department of Audits until her retirement at the age of 65. Along with her hus band, Billie, they owned and operated Singleton Grocery in Dawsonville for a number of years. She loved to travel and had visited many different places. She also enjoyed taking care of her home and working in her yards. A member of the First Bap tist Church of Dawsonville since she was 13, she sang in the choir for many years. Dorothy was also preceded in death by her husband, Billie Singleton; sons, Scott Singleton and John Singleton; brother, Buster Thurmond; and sisters, Marie Crane, Alene Slaton, and Lucille Low- man. Dorothy is survived by sev eral nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 3 o’clock at Bearden Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Dustin Gillespie and Dr. Jim Gaines will offici ate. Interment will follow in Dawsonville Memorial Gardens. The family received friends Sunday from 1 until 3 at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, Dorothy requested donations be made to your favorite char ity. Condolences may be expressed at www. beardenfuneralhome.com. Bearden Funeral Home, Dawsonville, GA. Death Notices Dorothy Singleton January 10, 2024 Dorothy Singleton, 89, of Dawsonville passed away Wednesday, January 10. Funeral services will be held Sunday, January 14 at 3 o’clock at Bearden Funeral Home Chapel. Jackie Ray January 7, 2024 Jackie Ray, 67, of Gainesville died Sunday, January 7, 2024. Memo rial service, Saturday, January 13, 2024. 2 p.m.. Corinth Baptist Church in Gainesville. Bearden Funeral Home, Dawsonville, GA. Justin Blake Brister January 12,2024 Justin Blake Brister, 34, of Dahlonega, formerly of Dawsonville, died Friday, January 12. Funeral ser vice, Monday, January 15, 4 o’clock, Bearden Funeral Home Chapel. FROM 1A Gold Creek m Graphic submitted to DCN Plans for Gold Creek Development LLC’s 32-unit resi dential project feature two different floor plans from homebuilder Fischer Homes. The planned paired- patio homes are just one part of the family’s over all vision for the land. Gold Creek Development LLC plans to bring a master plan amendment for the Gold Creek area before the city of Dawsonville for a pub lic hearing in the next 60 to 90 days. The updated master plan proposal will include more about planned ame nities for the Gold Creek development, among other details. DCN will provide updates when that public hearing is scheduled. Plan highlights The 32 single-family attached homes or duplex es would sit on land that is zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD). The plans were first submitted in September 2021 before being revised multiple times leading up to June 2023. Homes would range from about 2,200 to 3,300 square feet in size, depending on the specific footprint or layout, the civil plans showed. Gold Creek Development LLC has contracted with home builder Fischer Homes, who would construct the residential units, Turner said. Fischer’s Wembley floor plan will feature Western Craftsman or Coastal Cottage-style exteriors, with a first-floor owner’s suite, according to photos Turner emailed to DCN. Fischer’s Hudson floor plans would include simi lar exteriors, two-story paired homes and three bedrooms or two owner’s suites. Some of the homes would feature finished basements, Turner added. Overall, the disturbed area for the planned homes is 8.85 acres, the civil plans showed. With open space of just over 36% for that acreage, the residential density works out to 5.58 units per acre, according to the plans. Each pair of homes would feature a 30-foot front setback, 20-foot rear setback and 10-foot side setback from the property lines. Streetlights would be regularly placed between the homes,with a five-foot sidewalk connecting the 32 homes. A stop sign and stop bar are proposed at the entrance of both streets where the homes would be, and crosswalks would be put in front of each entrance as part of project connectivity. The homes would have one single mail kiosk in a cluster at the end of the project’s cul de sac. As far as foliage goes, sidewalk areas would fea ture two-foot landscape strips. The land developer plans on having 26 10-inch-plus-sized trees removed and proposes to plant 44 red maples in their place, the civil plans show. The former tennis courts, court parking and current cart paths would be removed as part of the project. The street with the cul de sac will empty out onto Gold Creek Drive. Village Drive would be moved up the hill “but not by much,” Turner said. An existing median at Village and Gold Creek drives would be removed, and Village Drive’s two intersections with Gold Creek Drive would be combined into just one intersection. The parking lot entrance right by the current Village and Gold Creek Drive intersection would also go away, Turner added. This would help elimi nate points of confusion so cars trying to access the St. Mary & St. Demiana Coptic convent won’t be confused and end up looping around, Turner said. The roadwork on Village Drive would require a slight detour within the Gold Creek development for that part of the project. The project would hook into Etowah Water and Sewer Authority’s infra structure, with eight-inch piping for the water lines there. Fortunately, beavers and providence helped form somewhat of a natu ral retention area downhill from the planned project, so creating a retention pond there wouldn’t be difficult, Turner said. DCN previously report ed on concerns about the dam spillway at Gold Creek’s Swan Lake, the article for which led to renewed local curiosity around plans for the resi dential development. In terms of the Swan Lake concerns, City Manager Bob Bolz told DCN that the property owner had been making progress with pumping reservoir water below where it could infiltrate the dam spillway. The chief concern there has been with any sedi ment leaving the site. Given the recent rains, city officials will continue to monitor the site to ensure the pumping sys tem and best management practices keep working as intended, Bolz said. A vested vision Turner said plans for the 32 paired-patio homes have been a result of his family’s vision and them listening to the regional real estate market, com bined with some pivots after receiving input from the city and the other sub divisions within the larger Gold Creek development. Noting his family’s longtime presence in the Dawsonville area, Turner called the positive local growth since 1980 “a good thing for the com munity.” Turner noted his prac tice of adding road and sewer infrastructure to residential projects and later donating that infra structure to the city. He also estimated that every home in the Gold Creek area would trans late to 3.1 local jobs added because of the homes’ construction and people moving into the residences and reiterated that housing can help cre ate jobs. “You don’t get those factories and restaurants until you have enough rooftops and people to support them,” Turner said. As Turner put it, his family’s thinking of lon gevity when it comes to the planned homes and their wider vision for the Gold Creek development. “We’re going to try to not do anything that we would not be proud of,” Turner said. “We care about the community and because of that, I think we have an advantage when it comes to local develop ment, because we are local.” King Crossword ACROSS 42 — pro nobis 20 Fury 1 Essence 43 Website assis 21 Soccer star 5 Sprint tance features Mia 9 Weed whacker 48 Motorist's org. 22 Region 12 Part of a 49 Biblical grain 23 Cowboy's French play measure greeting 13 Draft status 50 Slugger 24 Sail support 14 Jackson 5 hit Sammy 26 Priests' gar song 51 Carrier to ments 15 Bribe of a sort Amsterdam 27 Runner 17 Kanga's kid 52 Sean Astin film Sebastian 18 Hindu hero 53 Wan 28 Notion 19 Mature, as 29 Iowa city fruit DOWN 31 Moth repellent 21 Laugh track 1 "How frustrat 34 Vichy water sounds ing!" 35 Nobel-winning 24 Painter Joan 2 Hosp. section Mother 25 "East of Eden" 3 Map lines 37 Highland hat son (Abbr.) 38 Drench 26 College life 4 Capital of Iran 39 Russian river 30 Kitten's cry 5 Unhappy des 40 Ran in the 31 Nearby tiny wash 32 USN bigwig 6 Editor Wintour 41 Nashville 33 Wagered 7 Observe venue 35 Shade provid 8 October outing 44 Outback bird er 9 Brother of 45 Refusals 36 Candied veg Groucho 46 Show to a gies 10 Bassoon's kin seat, slangily 37 Plano's state 11 Nobel Prize 47 Utter 38 Recap subj. 40 Wild hog 16 More (Sp.) 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ,3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 1 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 1 50 51 52 53 A H s v 1 A a n 1 IAI 1 X V S 0 s H 3 IAI O V V V S n N 3 IAI d i 3 H V d 0 d V 0 a d n IAI n s s V X 3 1 S IAI V A 3 3 a 1 1 3 a V 3 a V IAI l/\l a V 3 s O i 0 M 3 IAI V i l/\l 3 a V 0 V N 0 d V O d i IAI s V H V H N 3 d 1 d V IAI V d O 0 I * 3 N O IAI H s n H 0 a v V 3 N O 1 3 1 0 V 3 0 H H S V a 1 s i O ^DawsonCountyNews A Metro Market Media Publication Display advertising For Wednesday: Retail and Classified deadlines are 3 p.m. Friday Established in 2015 by the merger of Dawson Community News and Dawson News and Advertiser 30 Shoal Creek Road Dawsonville, GA 30534 PHONE (706) 265-3384 FAX (706) 265-3276 USPS 018-876 PUBLISHER | Stephanie Woody EDITOR | Erica Jones MULTIMEDIA ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE | Meghan Hernandez Updates online at DaWSOnNcWS 1 Classified liners (help wanted, for sale, etc.) For Wednesday: Deadline is noon Monday Advertising rates available upon request. 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