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Trashy corridors targeted
County hires firm to pick up litter
By Kelly Whitmire /
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Forsyth County officials are tired
of talking trash and ready to do
something about the issue.
On Tuesday, the county commis
sion chose Latham Home Sanitation
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Sheriff's deputies impounded this car Tuesday afternoon from a subdivision off Wallace Tatum
Road in north Forsyth. Authorities say it was the vehicle that struck a woman walking her dog on
Hwy. 20 early Sunday.
Authorities: Struck
woman who was
walking dog on 20
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Forsyth County' Sheriff’s depu
ties have arrested the suspect in a
hit-and-run case that left a female
pedestrian who was walking her
dog home from Waffle House in
critical condition. 3
According to Epifanio
Rodriguez, a spokesman for the
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S jie son was taken to
the Forsyth County Detention
Anderson reportedly left
Planning board says ‘no’ to cell tower request
By Kayia Robins ;
krobins@forsythnews.com *
The Forsyth County planning
board has recommended that
Verizon Wireless’ request to
build a 160-foot telecommuni
cations tower in south Forsyth
be denied.
The tower, which would be
constructed as a “‘monopine” to
blend in to natural vegetation
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Co. of Loganville to pick up litter, as
needed, along Hwy. 369 in north
Forsyth and certain stretches of Ga.
400.
As part of the bid, which was
approved 5-0 and runs through the
end of the year, the county will pay
$234 per mile for up to 45 miles of
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Canton Highway (Hwy. 20) and
struck the woman, whose name
has not been released, near Tower
Road about 4:10 a.m. Sunday,
Rodriguez said. '
It is not known how far off the
highway the woman was when
struck, he said, but that distance
was enough to cross the fog line
The vehicle, a blue 2006 Nissan
Sentra, was impounded by the
by resembling a pine tree, is
proposed for the Scott’s Auto
Center site at Peachtree
Parkway and Majors Road.
Few applications draw votes
of denial from the planning
board. However, the five-mem
ber panel’s decision is only a
recommendation to the county
commission, which is expected
to hear the request in July.
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cleahup a month.
The bid stemmed from February,
when the commission heard numer
ous complaints of garbage flying off
trucks headed to the Eagle Point
Landfill in the county’s northwest
corner. Also particularly trouble
some have been certain stretches of
Ga. 400.
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sheniff’s office after it was found
at a-home in a subdivision off
Wallace Tatum Road in north
It had been the focus of a search
through the agency’s social media
network, though it is not yet
known where the break-through
in the case came from. ;
Deputy Mike Nelson led the
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as commercial business district,
or CBD. And that would not
change, as the request is for a
conditional use permit to con
struct the monopole.
The application, filed by
Jennifer A. Blackburn, was
rejected due to concerns about
the distance between the site
and nearby homes.
Representatives Robert Hoyt
(District 5), Pam Bowman
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The Forsyth County commission voted 5-0 to
move forward with the demolition of several
derelict structures in the Greenleaf subdivision.
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Greenleaf in 2006
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
After nearly a decade in limbo, it appears that
what remains of an infamous, long-abandoned
subdivigion in northeastern Forsyth soon could be
coming down.
During a work session Tuesday, the Forsyth
County commission voted 5-0 to move forward
with the demolition of several derelict structures
in the Greenleaf neighborhood, where construc
tion stopped in 2006.
In the ensuing years, two men tied to the
40-acre development off Anderson Lake Road
have been sent to federal prison for a mortgage
fraud scheme and ordered to pay millions in resti
tution. Meanwhile, the shells of homes without
necessary infrastructure have been vandalized.
Until Tuesday, wheri County Attorney Ken
Jarrard told the commission of recent legal devel
opments, the county had been unable to do much
about the situation. 3
According to Jarrard, the county has rec‘ived
quitclaim deeds transferring interest for four par
cels from entities it sued and is expecting to be
able to secure another two. :
“Otherwise, we've got court orders for the
remainder that say we can go ahead and ...
demolish those structures,” he said. “And then we
can take the cost of the demolition and put it as a
lien on the property.” _ .
Jarrard said that two of the structures have been
voluntarily taken down, but the majority remain,
“Of the 60-some-ought lots, we had 18 struc
tures that were left in various states of disrepair,”
he said.
Jarrard acknowledged there will be some costs
involved for the county, perhaps approaching
$300,000.
“We think, and again this is a ballpark [figure,]
but my understanding is that this may be around
$15,000 plus per structure,” he said. “They’d
come in and bid it, they’d take a look at it, knock
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(District 1) and Greg Dolezal
(District 3) voted against the
measure.
District 4’s Alan Neal voted
in favor. Jayne Iglesias of
District 2, which encompasses
the property, was absent.
According to the county’s
unified development code,
there must be 500 feet between
communication towers and res
identially zoned lands. But the
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application requested a vari
ance to reduce that distance to
286 feet. (
Blackburn said that would
apply only to a few abandoned
structures and that there is 500
feet between the proposed site
and inhabited homes. :
However, Hoyt noted the
commission must consider
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