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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Surnlay, Novmfaf M, 1995
Perkins named new director of water and sewer
By Thomas W. Krause
SttafT Writer
lust a few short days after Forsyth County
Water and Sewer Department Director Tom
Heard announced his resignation, the position
was filled.
An announcement from the Forsyth County
Board of Commissioners Wednesday said
Assistant Director of Public Works Tim
Perkins had been promoted to fill the Water
and Sewer Department vacancy.
•“We’re excited,” said County Administrator
Stevie Mills. “We think Tim is very capable.”
Mills said Perkins was chosen because of his
experience in engineering and public works.
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buffer for all running streams.
Other conditions include a maxi
mum of 244 homes and landscap
ing requirements.
The Oct. 31 meeting contained
an hour-long debate about this
rezoning. George Butler, repre
senting DCR, Inc., argued rezon
ing would be an improvement.
The land is currently zoned for
vacation cottages, which allows
greater density and trailers. The
new residential zoning would
require a minimum of 25,500
square foot lots and would not
allow trailers.
Area residents opposed to the re
zoning were concerned that the
new subdivision would be too
dense. Traffic and schooling
could be affected by the 244 new
homes.
The Planning Commission said
they were required to approve the
rezoning because it complies with
County ordinances.
Although the rezoning is on the
agenda for Monday’s meeting, a
request for postponement has
been filed.
The rezoning of a separate 12.14
acre piece of land will finally be
heard before the Board of
Commissioners on Monday. Billy
Evans requested the land be
rezoned to commercial business
from agricultural at the Sept. 26
meeting of the Planning
Commission. The hearing was
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Perkins was hired as an assistant county
engineer March 1988. He was promoted to
assistant director of that department January
1991.
The new director of the Water and Sewer
Department is taking over the position at an
important and controversial time. County
plans to build a $l2O million water and sewer
system are now coming to fruition. The
County is currently involved in a lawsuit over
the price of water it purchases from the City of
Cumming. And, on Dec. 1, the Commissioners
and Perkins will meet with homeowners,
developers and builders to attempt to come to
an agreement on proposed requirements for
postponed at last month's Board
of Commissioners meeting.
The proposed convenience store
on Bethelview Road near
Chamblee Gap Road was opposed
by 40 area residents. Most resi
dents were concerned about
increases in traffic, crime and
noise. Others were concerned
about potential environmental
damage from petroleum run-off.
Due to the absence of
Commissioner David Filson, the
vote was split. No recommenda
tion has been presented to the
Board of Commissioners.
The one rezoning request com
ing before the Board of
Commissioners that has been rec
ommended for denial by the
Planning Commission was for a
motorcycle repair shop on Cast
leberry Road and Piney Grove
Road. The proposed shop would
be in an existing 24 X 50 foot
building.
Eight people spoke at the Oct.
31 meeting in opposition to the
rezoning. Concerns included the
unsightliness of a repair shop and
the noise caused by testing motor
cycles.
The Planning Commission voted
3-1 to recommend against the
rezoning. Commissioner
Talmadge Bolton was in the
minority.
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Other rezoning requests include
an R.V. and boat storage facility
on Keith Bridge Road near
Shadburn Road, a 3.55 acre sub
division off Old Alpharetta Road
near Brandywine trail and a plas
tic slitting plant for the slicing of
plastic strips for garbage bags on
Evans Road near Post Road. No
one was present at the Oct. 31
meeting in opposition to these
requests. The Planning
Commission has recommended
approval for all other rezonings.
Also to be discussed at the
Board of Commissioners meeting
is a review of a decision by the
Board of Appeals regarding the
request for Ed Castro
Landscaping, Inc. to place a sign
within the right-of-way.
Other business includes a
request for an extension of an
existing contract with Stephens
Construction for the installation
of two inch water lines and the
acceptance of bids for a new
asphalt planer attachment and a
new asphalt wheeled cold planer.
The meeting will be held
Monday at 7 p.m. in the Jury
Assembly/Commissioner’s
Meeting Room on the second
floor of the Forsyth County
Courthouse.
dry sewer lines to be installed in new develop
ments.
Perkins grew up in the Freehome area. He
graduated from Cherokee High School and
attended Maryville College and Southern Tech
majoring in Civil Engineering. \
Perkins holds a certificate of local govern
ment management from the University of
Georgia and the Georgia Mountains Regional
Development Center. The certificate was
awarded after two years of classroom and
practical work.
He will begin the position immediately.
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Family Friendly Libraries support commission
By Laura Boggs
Staff Writer
One of the strong voices for
keeping certain books out of the
hands of children in the Gwinnett-
Forsyth Regional Library system
has come from the Citizens for
Family Friendly Libraries.
The group has been around for
two years, months before Scott
Scoggins, another voice for
restricted access, joined the
Gwinnett Library Board.
“It started when we discovered
What Is A Boy? What Is a Girl?
on the 3-foot high shelves for
kids,” said Jennifer Toombs of
Gwinnett, a founder of the organi
zation consisting of hundreds of
Gwinnett and Forsyth members.
The book contains sexually
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from State Senate to
campaign for new seat \
By Laura Boggs
Staff Writer
Ethics laws will keep state Sen.
Clint Day (R-48th District), who
is running for the U.S. Senate,
from raising money during crucial
campaign months next year.
Day said he has decided to
remain in the legislature through
the 2 1/2-month session, which
explicit pictures and text that
should not be available to chil
dren, contends the group.
Books like It’s Perfectly Normal,
a children’s text that deals with
the subjects of homosexuality,
masturbation and abortion, and
young adult novels like Fade and
We All Fall Down by Robert
Cormier, which contain passages
about sex and violence, have
since come to the Citizens’ atten
tion.
Betty Wheeler of Forsyth, an
active member of the Citizens,
said the fiction books are espe
cially troubling because they
don’t condemn destructive behav
iors.
“The way they are written is
rude and crude,” Wheeler said.
Toombs said the Citizens are not
starts in January.
“It was really a gut-wrenching'
decision,” Day said. “I feel like «
I’ve told the people of the 48th I
was going to fulfill a two-year
commitment when I was elect
ed.”
His personal fortune may help
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for pulling books from shelves
but for putting them in a “Family
Advisory Area,” where children
could not wander without a par
ent’s permission. A poll of
Gwinnett and Forsyth residents
could determine which materials
are inappropriate for children and
should be put in the restricted
area, Toombs said.
Library policy now leaves the
responsibility of monitoring what
children read to parents.
The Citizens recently collected
2,100 petition signatures of indi
viduals who want to restrict chil
dren’s access to sexually explicit
materials in the library. Toombs
said the group is frustrated that all
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