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Overloaded staffers
behind in numbering
By Kathey Pruitt
Staff writer
Forsyth County addresses are
changing from postal routes to house
numbers under a renumbering sys
tem initiated last December, but
staffers at the county’s planning de
partment say they have more work to
do before they can count the job
complete.
“We’re not going to be done by the
end of this year, not by any means,”
said planning director Stevie Mills.
“House numbering has to be put on
the back burner when other things
come up around here.”
Planners last year said they hoped
the long-awaited numbering would be
complete by the end of 1987, but the
workload dumped on the planning and
development department as a result
of the county’s growth has sapped
manpower and time from the project,
Mills said.
Work still to be completed in north
east and northwest Forsyth make the
estimated completion date fall some
time in 1988, Mills said.
Local officials began the number
ing effort, which would assign a street
address to all houses and businesses
in the county, more than two years
ago when they contracted with the
Georgia Mountains Area Planning
and Development Commission to de
vise the numbering system. But the
project was returned unfinished to the
planning department in October 1986.
The Forsyth County planning office
mailed out the first set of house num
bers last December, and since then
have completed all but one or two
roads in the portion of the county
south of Ga. 20, Mills said. Current ef
4-H’ers going
to Rock Eagle
Fourteen youths will represent For
syth County at the North Central Dis
trict Project Achievement meeting at
Rock Eagle 4-H Center on March 24-
26, 1988. Three hundred 4-H’ers from
20 counties are expected to attend the
annual project competition meeting.
Senior 4-H’ers to represent Forsyth
County include: Heather Johnson,
Performing Arts, Instrumental; Scot
Bom, Petroleum Power; Brian Bag
well, Crop and Weed Study; Kim
Shoemake, Dog Care and Training;
Terry Smith, Fruits, Vegetables and
Nuts; and Darron Wright, Forestry.
Junior 4-H’ers who will attend are:
Stacy Samples, Horse; Robin Gar
rett, Veterinary Science; David Ro
den, Wood Science; Gwen Chadwick,
Bicycles; Tracy Little, Dairy Foods;
Stacy Little, Wildlife; Leah Castle
berry, Home Management; and
Adam Casey, Sports and Outdoor
Recreation.
All of these club members won first
place in their project areas at County
Project Achievement, Nov. 24, at
Otwell Junior High School, to earn the
chance to compete for the district ti
tle. Junior 4-H’ers do not advance be
yond the district level, but senior dis
trict winners will travel to Atlanta for
the State 4-H Congress in August,
1988.
In addition to her project area,
Heather Johnson will also have politi
cal competition to worry about. She
will run for office of the North Central
District 4-H Council while at Rock
Eagle.
The other 4-H’ers, in addition to
their individual project demonstra
tions, will participate in vesper pro
grams, group discussions, recreation
al activities and special assembly
program.
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western Forsyth, from Ga. 20 north
ward and Dr. Bramblett Road to the
Cherokee County line.
After all those new addresses are
entered into the county’s computer
and change of address cards are
mailed to residents and business own
ers, planners will begin assigning
numbers in the northeast part of the
county around Lake Lanier.
“We’re working in a clockwise mo
tion around the county, getting to
Lake Lanier last,” Mills said. “We’re
probably going to have to spend a lot
of time (mi the lake because of the way
the lots are cut in there.”
Planners had to look at the county’s
21,000 parcels of land, determining
which parcels had structures, then as
signing street numbers rather that ru
ral postal routes to each structure, in
cluding houses, offices and schools.
Where parcels were undeveloped,
planners assigned a number for every
10 feet along the road to allow for fu
ture development, Mills said.
The new street numbers will help
the seven post offices which deliver
mail to different portions of the coun
ty deal with the volume of mail and
the number of stops that were crowd
ed into rural routes.
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