Habersham’s proposed Higgins airport hangar lease remains without a recorded board decision

More than seven months after the Habersham County Board of Commissioners considered a revised ground-lease agreement with Higgins Construction, the public meeting materials tied to Jan. 20 still do not show whether the board approved, rejected or otherwise acted on the proposal for a 60-by-60-foot box hangar at Habersham County Airport. The item was placed on the meeting agenda as an agreement for commissioners to consider, but the cited agenda and minutes excerpt do not record a final vote or decision.

The unanswered question is more than a procedural detail. A ground lease would establish the terms under which Higgins Construction could use county airport property for the proposed hangar, affecting how the county manages airport land and agreements. Airport users and residents cannot determine from these materials whether the proposed use was authorized, whether a lease was executed, or whether the hangar may proceed.

The proposal has surfaced before. Commissioners’ Dec. 16, 2024 agenda included a proposed ground lease for construction and lease of one 60-by-60-foot box hangar at the airport. That agenda established that the county was considering the hangar concept, but it did not document approval. By Jan. 20, 2026, the matter returned as a revised agreement identifying Higgins Construction, indicating that the earlier proposal had been revisited rather than conclusively resolved in the cited 2024 agenda.

Higgins Construction is the named party in the revised lease item, and the Board of Commissioners is the public body that considered it. The agenda describes a proposed agreement involving one box hangar at the county airport; it does not provide a statement from the company explaining its plans or from commissioners explaining their views. The meeting materials likewise do not set out the positions of airport users, neighboring property owners or other residents.

What the record establishes is limited: the revised Higgins Construction agreement was proposed and considered on Jan. 20. It does not establish an approval, denial, execution of a lease or construction of the hangar. The cited materials also do not describe the proposed lease’s duration, rent, other financial conditions or remaining contractual terms, leaving both the project’s legal status and its practical timetable unknown.

The next concrete public sign of movement would be a later Board of Commissioners agenda or minutes recording action on the revised lease, or an executed agreement that identifies the authorization and its terms. Until such a record appears, it remains undecided in the cited materials whether Habersham County authorized Higgins Construction to use the airport site, on what conditions, and when—or whether—the proposed 60-by-60-foot hangar could move ahead.