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By Chuck Thompson
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Forsyth County is seeking its third
grant in three years from the federal
Appalachian Regional Commission
(ARC).
Two ARC grants awarded in 1983
and 1984 went to watersewer con
struction projects in the McFarland
Road area of southwest Forsyth
County.
The third ARC grant, if awarded,
would fund construction of a water
Site plan, clarification
sought on shopping center plan
What did the Forsyth County Plan
ning Commission mean when it sug
gested a “low agricultural buffer” for
the proposed site of a shopping center
at Georgia 9 and Bethelview Road?
That question played a role last
week in a decision by the county
commissioners to postpone final ac
tion on a request to rezone the site for
commercial business.
In addition, the commissioners are
asking that a site plan be developed
for the proposed shopping center.
Action on a restrictive zoning clas
sification for Chestatee Heights sub
division also was postponed last week
by the commissioners.
The “low agricultural buffer” was
suggested as a condition of rezoning
by the planning commission in its
Sept 25 meeting, and forwarded to
the commissioners in the form of a
recommendation.
After action on the rezoning was
postponed by the commissioners,
planners put together a more detailed
Building permits are up
over same period last year
The number of building permits
issued in September by the Forsyth
County Planning Department was up
compared to the same month last
year.
Forty-four permits were issued in
September for singlefamily homes,
an increase of 10 percent compared to
last year’s 40 permits.
Total permits for September also
were up by 24 percent— compared
to me year ago. The planning depart
ment issued 63 total permits in Sep
tember, 1963 and 78 total permits last
month.
Comparing September to August,
however, resulted in some large de
creases.
The planning department issued 61
permits for angle-family homes in
August compared to 44 last month, a
Signs are
circulated to
oppose quarry
By Chuck Thompson
N—nEdMor
Signs are among the latest tech
niques being used to drum up support
for a campaign aimed at stopping
Vulcan Materials from developing a
rock quarry in east Cherokee County.
The quarry would be located on 88
acres on Lower Creighton Road, near
the Forsytb-Cherokee County line.
Larry Roberts, who helped orga
nize Forsyth and Cherokee County
residents opposing the possible
quarry, says 100 of the signs were
printed for distribution in stores and
otber public places.
The signs ask the question: “Do
yon want a rock quarry in your back
yard?”
rsHwm are then urged to join
concerned citizens of Forsyth and
Cherokee counties and heip “fight
against big business destroying our
neighborhood environment “
Mark Graham, manager of human
resources and administration for Vul
can Materials, says it will likely be
early 1985 before his firm seeks per
mission to develop and operate the
quarry.
Xirsvth County News
ity seeks third grant from ARC
line to a major housing development
in north Forsyth County.
Public Works Director Dale Bryant
says the proposed development, con
sisting of 400 units and a golf course,
is planned by Carter and Associates,
in Atlanta, for Settendown Road.
In connection with that, Bryant
says, county authorities considered
the possibility of a water line to serve
the development, which would have
extended from an existing line at
Settendown Road and Georgia 369.
Following a test on the existing
description of the proposed condition.
It now provides that in the 40-foot
setback area on the south side of the
property, there will be no vegetative
buffer over 16 inches high and no
construction or parking area.
The condition has been recom
mended by the planning commission
to ensure good visibility and safety
for motorists in and around the shop
ping center, to be developed on 24.62
acres in the northeast comer of the
Bethel view Road-Georgia 9 intersec
tion.
Stores which have been considered
for the property include a supermar
ket and large drug store.
A proposed restrictive zoning for
Chestatee Heights was postponed to
allow a survey of property owners in
tbe subdivision.
Planning Director Stevie Mills says
the property owners will be asked:
(1) if their lot is vacant, and if not,
what is on the lot:
(2) if they bought vacant lots with
the intention of placing a mobile
decrease of 28 percent.
Total permits for September (78)
were down 24 parent compared to
the 103 total permits issued in August.
Categories of building for which
last month’s 78 permits were issued,
the number of permits issued in that
category and the estimated values of
buddings to be constructed with the
permits, are as follows: single-family
homes, 44, $2,806,700; industrial
buildings, 2, $900,000; other non-resi
dential buildings, 3, $388,000; resi
dential additions, 11, $127,000;
residential garages, 5, $46,300; and
all other buildings and structures, 13,
$384,200.
There were 44 mobile borne permits
issued by the planning department in
September, compared to 34 in Sep
tember, 1963 and 33 hi August.
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Larry Roberts displays sign opposing quarry
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1984—GUMMING, GA. 30130
line, however, Bryant says it lacked
enough pressure to make the exten
sion feasible.
Therefore, county officials have
considered tapping on to another wa
ter line at Pilgrim Mill and Chatta
hoochee roads, and running an
extension to the development down
Holtzclaw Road and Georgia 369.
The extension would join an exist
ing line along Georgia 369 and form a
loop, which is designed to increase
water pressure.
Bryant says the water project
home on the property; and
(3) if they want a restrictive zoning
classification for Chestatee Heights.
John A. and Mary B. Carter have
been seeking to have the subdivision
rezoned from VC (Vacation Cottages)
to VCR (Vacation Cottages—Re
stricted), which would prohibit mo
bile homes.
Their rezoning request was consid
ered by the planning commission
Sept. 25 and opposed by Herman
Pierce, administrator of the Pierce
estate, which was used to form Ches
tatee Heights.
Pierce contended that mobile
homes are the wily type of housing
which some individuals can afford,
ami that Carter, who’s seeking a
classification which prohibits mobile
homes, has lived in a mobile home for
the last 20 years.
Carter argued that 36 of the subdi
vision’s 66 lots were vacant, creating
the ‘ ‘potential for a lot of mobile
honMf ” if no restrictive classification
was approved.
Revenue generated by the planning
department last month amounted to
$15,471.78, and included receipts from
budding permits, $7,503.75; electrical
permits, $2,386,10; mobile home per
mits, $1,809.68; plumbing permits,
$1,786; and heating permits, $1,140.
During die first nine months of 1984
the planning department issued 762
total permits, an increase of 28 per
cent compared to the same period
laid: year, when 579 total permits were
issued.
Single-famdy home permits for the
first nine months of 1964 numbered
483, compared to 357 last year, an
increase of 35 percent.
And, mobde home permits issued in
the first nine months of 1984 num
bered 332, an increase of six percent
compared to last year’s 312 mobile
hone permits.
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would involve some 4% miles of wa
ter line construction at a cost of some
$500,000.
Because ARC grants must be
matched with local money, the
county can expect to receive about
$250,000 in federal funds if the
grant is awarded.
To be eligible for a grant from the
Appalachian Regional Commission, a
water-sewer project must help create
jobs.
And, according to Bryant, the de
velopment would start out with 35
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Getting a look ‘first hand’
Students at Forsyth County Day Cars Center last week got to see firsthand whore apples coma from.
The children were guests of John Mashburn at hie orchard near downtown Cumming. After showing
the youngsters the orchard, Its trees loaded with bright red apples, Mashburn lot each student and
teacher pick an apple for eating. Officials at the canter hope that other businesses and
organizations in the area will allow the youngsters to take a tour in the coming weeks. (Staff photo by
Johnny Solesbee)
Some taxes coming in
after names published
Delinquent tax
list Pages 48-5 B
By Doug Allinger
SUft WrWf
The Forsyth County Tax Com
missioner’s office in the past two
weeks has collected more than $71,000
in overdue 1983 taxes and more than
$37,000 in taxes owed for yean prior
to 1963.
Although he said it is difficult to
guage an average week of collections,
Tax Commissioner Bobby Gene Gil
bert said he feels the publication last
week of names and amounts owed by
some 2,000 Forsyth County property
owners has had an impact on the
amount of money coming in.
In addition to taxes owed, Gilbert’s
office collected in the past two weeks
$17,420 in interest, sß4*3 in penalty
charges and $2’040 in collection costs,
according to tax office records. All
penalty and Interest monies go into
the county’s general fund.
The names and amounts owed in
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permanent employees. It is expected
to employ 59 people in three years.
In addition, there would be a num
ber of construction jobs created while
work on the development is under
way.
Two other ARC grants awarded
this year and in 1983 will finance
construction of 1,300 feet of 24-inch
sewer line and a tunnel for that line
under Georgia 400.
The tunnel will provide access to
sewer lines for industries on die west
side of the highway.
taxes for 1982 are published in today’s
issue of the Forsyth County News.
Friday at 5 p.m. is the deadline for
payment of taxes owed for 1961 to
avoid publication next Wednesday.
At the direction of the Board of
Commissioners, Tax Assessor Janies
Payne has been handling complaints
tram persons who feel their names
should not have been published in the
lists of delinquent taxpayers.
Out of more than 2,000 names pub
lished last week as delinquent 1963
MBs, Payne said that as of Monday
afternoon, he had received 41 com
plaints.
“The majority of them are address
problems, either we have no address
on a property owner or the address is
incorrect. It is the responsibility of
the taxpayer to file a tax return,”
Payne said.
Of the 41 complaints, Payne said
seven were traced to an error on the
county tax office’s part, attributable
to either computer or human error,
he said.
In cases where a name was listed
as a result of the tax office's error, a
correction will be published, Payne
said.
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In addition, a 4,000-foot sewer line
extension will begin at the end of the
tunnel, on the west side of the high
way, and move northward along Big
Creek.
Other projects to be funded by the
ARC grants are:
(1) 4,000 feet of 10- and 12-inch
water main along McFarland and
McGinnis Ferry Roads; and
(2) 5,300 feet of 15-, 12- and 8-inch
sewer line along the tributary branch
of Big Creek, located (Mi the east side
of Georgia 400.
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Chamber speaker
Hill R. Hasten, director of the
Association County Commie
sioners of Gsorgia for tho post
24 yours, will bo guest speaker
at ths quarterly breakfast moot
ing of tho Cummlng-Forsyth
County Chombor of Commerce
st 7:30 a.m. Friday, Oct 26, at
tho Boot Western Lanier Lodge.
Those Interested In attending
tho breekfest mooting are asked
to notify tho chombor office by
Monday, Oct. 22. Cali Brenda
Moore or “Mac” Beraton at 667-
6461.