Habersham storage owner seeks to undo Rockford Creek Road access restriction

Omega Properties & Development LLC asked the Habersham County Planning Commission on April 1, 2025, to remove a condition that prevents direct driveway access from its storage property at Rockford Creek and Hollywood Hills roads to Rockford Creek Road. The commission discussed the request, identified as Z-25-01, but its minutes do not record a recommendation on whether the restriction should be lifted.

The dispute concerns more than the placement of a driveway. The restriction governs how the upper portion of a 16.64-acre tract approved for RV, boat and self-storage may connect to nearby roads. Removing it could allow a direct Rockford Creek Road entrance and alter the access arrangement that accompanied the property’s earlier zoning approval, with consequences for the site’s layout and future use.

Omega’s original request was placed on the Planning Commission’s Oct. 5, 2021 agenda to rezone Map 128 Parcel 061C from LI to HI for RV storage. Later that month, on Oct. 18, Board of Commissioners minutes record a unanimous approval for RV, boat and self-storage use. That approval required the driveway to remain on the Hollywood Hills Road side, required a 25-foot undisturbed buffer along Rockford Creek Road, and limited the tract to storage use. The 2025 application seeks to remove the driveway condition created by that earlier decision.

Omega Properties is the only party whose position is described in the Planning Commission minutes. According to those minutes, the applicant said it wanted to sell an approximately 2.2-acre upper portion of the tract to a buyer who lives across Rockford Creek Road, and sought removal of the direct-access restriction. The county’s 2021 Board of Commissioners action, by contrast, established the Hollywood Hills Road-only driveway condition as part of its approval. The record supplied here does not document comments from neighbors, the prospective buyer, or county staff explaining a position on the 2025 request.

The 2021 rezoning and its listed conditions were completed county actions; the current access change is only a request discussed by the Planning Commission. The April 2025 minutes do not show that the commission endorsed or rejected Z-25-01, and they do not establish a later Board of Commissioners decision. A duplicate record also describes the 2021 approval, but its source label gives only “10.18” and does not establish a year; the separate Board minutes identify the approval date as Oct. 18, 2021.

No later public hearing, Planning Commission recommendation or Board of Commissioners action is documented after the April 1, 2025 discussion. The next concrete public development would be a new Planning Commission record or Board action on Z-25-01. Until then, it remains undecided whether Omega can create direct Rockford Creek Road access for the upper portion of the tract and whether the county would retain, remove or replace any access conditions.