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> FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Friday, December 1,1995
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all plan of implementing dry sewer
(hat is not overly burdensome to
the development community or to
the end purchasers of housing in
this county,” said Tom Ross, exec
utive director for the council.
The Federation of Forsyth
County Homeowners will attend
the meeting to ask why others are
opposed to the ordinance, said
Prescott Eaton, president of the
organization.
“We want to know why people
would be opposed to such long
range planning that would be in
the best interest of homeowners in
Forsyth County,” he said.
Bill Kehres, president of the
Forsyth County Homebuilder’s
Association said his organization
is in favor of a sewer system but
he is against the ordinance as it
stands now.
“I’m for doing something, but
1 don’t think the way they have it
written is the way to do it,” he
said.
Kehres said he is also con
cerned that the issue is bigger than
just the dry sewer ordinance. New
zoning ordinances are also being
implemented.
Richard May, president of the
Council for Quality Growth, said
he also wants the commission to
look into the zoning issues and
their relationship to the dry sewer
issue at Friday’s meeting.
. “1 hope they will be open to
(poking. at some of the changes in
zoning needed to make this work,”
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keeps interest rates low. And
Municipal Bonds Investors
Assurance (MBIA), a bond insur
ance company, issued Forsyth
schools a bond insurance rating of
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kids stumbling upon sexually
explicit books, this step makes it
less likely. But it does not solve
t)ie problem of these books being
available to children in the
library,” Seder said.
Library policy allows access to
items for all age groups.
Separating adult and children’s
non-fiction books is not a unique
Gwinnett-Forsyth Regional
Library practice. Most Atlanta
area systems have already classi
fied non-fiction books according to
reader age groups.
Only Cobb County libraries
and some Atlanta-Fulton branches
are continuing to shelve adult and
children’s non-fiction books
together. The advantage of “inter
filing” is that adults who are
beginning readers can pick out an
easier book on a subject without
having to go into the children’s
section, said Jo Ann Pinder, exec
utive director of the Gwinnett-
Forsyth Library.
While the Forsyth branch is
closed for reshelving next
Wednesday-Saturday, residents
can use the Buford branch on
Buford Highway.
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Central students who partici
pate.in the Maskers Repertory
Theater Company, which includes
most of the cast and crew of Lost
in Yonkers, will perform a medley
of Christmas music at 7, 7:30 and
8 p.m. Nov. 30 at Kroger in
Lakeland Plaza.
The Maskers will also perform
music and mime for the Georgia
School Board and
Superintendents associations Dec.
2 at the Waverly Hotel in Atlanta.
Forsyth County senior citizens
will be treated to a Maskers per
formance at Cumming United
Methodist Church at 11 a.m. Dec.
5.
North students will present “A
Night of Scenes” Feb. 1 and a
musical revue Feb. 28. Their
spring production, Rehearsal for
Murder, will be performed at the
end of March.
May said.
Commissioner James
Harrington said he expects zoning
to be a major part of the discus
sion.
“I don’t especially like the idea
of lowering the size of the lots,”
he said.
But, Harrington did say the
subject needs discussion and con
cessions will have to be made. He
said he is going to try to keep lot
sizes larger than 20,000 square
feet 2,000 square feet smaller
than required lot sizes now for res
idential zoning with sewer access.
“That’s giving in a little on my
hardened position,” he said.
On Nov. 20, the commission
set up what is now titled the Dry
Sewer Review Committee. The
eight member committee is com
prised of May and Richard Webb
from the Council for Quality
Growth; Kehres and Doug Spohn
from the Forsyth County
Homebuilder’s Association; and
Eaton, Steve Brooks and Richard
Spreen from the Federation of
Forsyth County Homeowners; and
Mike Wind, who has been active
in community affairs.
The Dry Sewer Review
Committee will meet with the
commissioners and Tim Perkins,
the new Forsyth County Water and
Sewer Department director,
Friday, Dec. 1 at 11 a.m. in the
Jury Assembly/Commissioners
Meeting room on the second floor
of the Forsyth County Courthouse.
AAA, bringing interest rates
down.
As of Wednesday afternoon,
$lO million in bonds were still
for sale.
“I hope to sell everything by
the end of the week,” Wall said.
On Dec. 12, school board
members will celebrate closing
day. They will receive $55 mil
lion from the bond sales, enabling
them to move forward with con
struction projects.
Five new schools and addi
tions to each of the district’s 14
facilities will help ease over
crowding in classrooms around
the quickly growing county.
For the next 20 years bonds
will be paid with a 1.5-mil tax
increase, which will raise the
SIOO,OOO homeowner’s taxes by
S6O a year. Voters approved the
$55 million bond referendum
Sept. 19 by 78.6 percent.
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Wednesday to discuss the specific
objections and to try to come to an
agreement, Seder said.
“1 thought it was a very pro
ductive meeting,” he said. “I think
we came to a meeting of the minds
on some points.”
Seder said he expects more dis
cussion will provide mutual agree
ment on the issue.
The first, four-page letter
detailed objections to the facility
including the impact on the scenic
and recreational values in the
Chattahoochee River Corridor and
the inconsistency of the plant with
the Forsyth County
Comprehensive Plan.
The second letter added that
the proposed plant is not in any
adopted regional development
guide. The Chattahoochee
Corridor Plan policy states that no
DEATHS
George (Doc) Akins
Mr. George (Doc) Akins, 75,
of Canton, formerly of Cumming,
died Monday morning.
Survivors include his son and
daughter-in-law, George and
Wanda Akins, of Cumming;
daughter and son-in-law, Deborah
and Matt Wallace, of Holly
Springs; grandchildren, George
and Angie Akins; great grandchil
dren, Justin and Zachary Akins;
brother, Russell Akins, of
Cumming; sister, Mrs. Emme
Shoemake, also of Cumming; and
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regional-scale public facility con
structed within the corridor by a
federal, state or local government
is consistent with the plan unless it
is included in a regional develop
ment guide, it said.
“This alone makes the propos
al inconsistent with the plan,” the
letter said.
Both letters said the proposed
discharge of treated water into the
Etowah River has not taken into
consideration discharge into the
Etowah by Cherokee or Cobb
counties.
Commissioner James
Harrington said the county has
paid attention to the needs of
Cherokee and Cobb counties in
this issue.
“Cherokee and Cobb have
already told us it is okay with
them,” he said.
a number of other relatives also
survive.
Funeral sevice were held on
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 1995 at 4 p.m.
at the Ingram Funeral Home
Chapel.
The Rev. Hughlon Cochran
officiated. Interment was in
Sawnee View Memorial Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
The Forsyth County News
December 1, 1995
Neither Harrington nor Seder
believe the letter will affect the
expected permit for the plant to be
issued by the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division
although no contact with the EPD
has been made.
Seder said the ARC letter was
part of a law required process to
ask for comments. Beverly Rhea,
with ARC communications, said
the ARC regularly comments on
issues that will effect more than
one county due to proximity to
county lines.
The Nov. 20 letter also said the
ARC had not received enough
prior information about the
planned facility.
“We were surprised to learn of
this proposed facility, having had
no prior information about it,
despite the apparent detailed
Ronald Lee (Pops) Kells
Mr. Ronald Lee (Pops) Kells,
62, of Dawsonville died
Wednesday, Nov. 29,1995.
Survivors inlcude his wife,
Betty Montgomery Kells, of
Dawsonville; children, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Kells, Sr., of
Lawrenceville, Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Dwayne Kells, of Forest
Park, Donora Jean Lewis, of
Winder, and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
(Susan) Hughes, of Acworth; nine
grandchildren; five great grand
children; a brother, Edward
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design that has been done,” the
letter said.
Harrington said the ARC had
been well aware of the facility.
“That is ridiculous,” he said.
“They’ve been watching it since
before we got any hint from the
EPD.”
ARC officials had been invited
to a meeting about the facility two
months ago, Harrington said.
Recommendations included on
the ARC letters include a sugges
tion for Forsyth County to site the
plant at least one mile from the
river and from the Fulton and
Gwinnett County lines. The ARC
also calls for a “cooperative com
prehensive wastewater manage
ment study” to protect the long
range needs of all jurisdictions
involved.
Dwayne Kells, of Brunswick,
Ohio; a sister, Jane Wilson, of
Long Beach, N.C.; a niece,
nephews and other relatives also
survive.
Funeral services will be Friday,
Dec. 1 at 11 a.m. at Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev.
Rodney Pilcher will officiate.
Interment was in North Atlanta
Memorial Park.
Ingram Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
The Forsyth County News
December 1,1995