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impact development efforts and
harm competitiveness.”
The BOC is currently in the pro
cess of a complete rewrite of the
county’s Zoning Ordinance and
Subdivision Regulations, and build
ing design elements and standards
will likely be included in the new
regulations.
The resolution also states that
“appropriate local design standards
and land use policies create a di
verse, stable, profitable, and sus
tainable residential development
landscape.”
The BOC believes that HB 302
would undermine the self determi
nation of citizens to establish com
munity standards by the following:
• County and municipal officials
are elected in part to make decisions
about the look and feel of their com
munity, which fosters economic de
velopment, preserves the character
of communities; and
• Counties and municipalities use
design standards to ensure that the
property values of surrounding prop
erty owners remain protected from
incompatible development; and
• HB 302 would severely erode
the ability of all 538 Georgia cities
and 159 counties to address unique
and community-specific quality of
life issues.
Continuing the resolution states:
- design standards are used to
protect property values, attract high
quality developers and block incom
patible development;
- assure residents and business
owners that their investments will
be protected and that others who
come behind them will be equally
committed to quality;
- local governments spend a large
amount of resources studying, sur
veying, crafting and defining their
vision and development strategies,
and design standards are an integral
part of these endeavors to attract
residents, businesses and a trained
work force;
- development and redevelopment
should reflect the community and
it’s vision, while creating a sense of
place,
- county and municipal officials
are elected to make decisions about
the look and feel of their communi
ties, and HB 302 would transfer that
power from duly-elected local lead
ers to outside groups with little to
no stake in the future or success of
Georgia’s counties and municipali
ties, including real estate developers
and home builders;
- building design standards nei
ther discourage nor favor affordable
housing, nor prevent the availability
of certain housing types - as support
ers of HB 302 purport;
- local governments have the abil
ity to provide more affordable hous
ing options without sacrificing their
unique character or threatening eco
nomic growth;
- although historic districts are
protected in HB 302, which indicates
an understanding that standards
do in fact make sense, downtown
overlays or other similar special zon
ing districts are not;
- local governments should be em
powered to enforce building design
standards to today’s thriving county
areas tomorrow’s historic districts;
- by limiting the ability of local
governments to enforce design stan
dards in single and double family
dwellings, HB 302 would negatively
impact quality of life issues, includ
ing economic growth and the safety
and welfare of the citizens of Georgia
and in particular Glynn County.
With that the BOC sent a copy of
this resolution to every member of
the Georgia House of Representa
tives and Senate.
• In other business:
- The BOC voted unanimously to
approve a change order for the Fred
erica Road repaving project in the
amount of $52,730. The road project
is a Special Purpose Local Option
Sales Tax (SPLOST) 2016 project.
The item was on the consent agen
da, but was pulled by Commissioner
Peter Murphy (Dist. 2) to have an ex
planation for the public.
Murphy said, “I received an e-
mail from a concerned citizen about
this change order regarding the road
widening in the Wymberly area. As
the crew was paving they found that
some additional work needed to be
done. The concerned citizen felt the
issue should go to the oversight com
mittee (SPLOST Citizens Oversight
Committee) first before being com
ing to us.”
“The issue was the discovery of
a broken clay pipe,” said Murphy,
“It turned out it was a storm water
drainage pipe, not a JWSC (Joint
Water and Sewer Commission) pipe.”
Murphy asked for an explanation
of who has purview over the issue.
Commission chairman Mike
Browning (Dist. 1) said the oversight
committee was formed to mirror
the Board of Education’s ESPLOST
oversight committee.
Their purpose, said Browning, is
to review the progress and status of
the projects and put the information
out to the public.
“The committee was never
meant,” said Browning, “to super
vise to make decisions. It is up to us,
the county commission, to execute
the SPLOST projects because we an
swer to the taxpayers. We can’t put
the authority off on anyone else. At
the end of the day, it is our decision
on how to handle it and implement
the SPLOST.”
“Dave Austin (Public Works Di
rector) contacted me about this,”
said Browning, “and said we needed
to deal with it now and not just cov
er up a broken drain pipe. We have
enough money to deal with it, so we
made the decision to do it.”
Murphy also asked for another
item to be pulled regarding an in
crease for the SPLOST 2016 funded
Pier Village Drainage project.
Murphy said he pulled it for a
similar explanation for the same
concerned citizen.
The request was to increase the
project budget by $4,358 and it was
approved unanimously.
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