Stephens County to weigh carving rural home site from Yow Mill Road farm zoning

Stephens County’s Planning Commission is scheduled to consider Sept. 1 whether to rezone a 1.06-acre home-site area at 2095 S. Yow Mill Road in Toccoa. Sandra S. Fulghum is seeking to change the surveyed portion of Tax Parcel 060 058 from Agricultural Intensive, or AI, to Agricultural Residential, or AR.

Property at a glance

Where the proposal is located

2095 S. Yow Mill Road, Toccoa

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Tax parcel

060 058

Property size

1.06 acres

Address

2095 S. Yow Mill Road, Toccoa

Proposed use

Agricultural residential home site

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Map note: The exhibit is for general location and proposal context. Source: September 1, 2026 Planning Commission packet.

The request is small in acreage but addresses a familiar rural land-use question: whether a designated residential site fits within an active agricultural setting. The proposed change covers about 1.06 acres of a roughly 257.32-acre property that the application describes as a farm and home, leaving the balance of the parcel at the center of the agricultural context.

The matter reached the commission through the Sept. 1 agenda packet, which identifies a surveyed home-site area rather than a request to rezone the entire property. Staff’s recommendation repeats that limited proposal and frames the change as a shift from AI to AR, with an acknowledgment tied to nearby agricultural activity.

Fulghum is the applicant seeking the residential designation for the specified home-site area. County planning staff recommend the proposed rezoning, according to the agenda, while also noting the applicant’s acknowledgment that agricultural activity occurs nearby. The agenda does not identify public comments, opposition, or other positions on the request.

The rezoning remains a proposal, not a completed zoning action. The staff recommendation is not a commission decision, and the agricultural-effects acknowledgment is a condition associated with the request rather than proof that another action has occurred. No outcome is established in the agenda materials.

The next public step is the Planning Commission’s Sept. 1 consideration of the Yow Mill Road application. Readers will need the meeting record to learn whether the commission made a recommendation or another action, and what additional follow-through, if any, would be required before the proposed zoning change could take effect. The agenda is dated after the Aug. 28 review date, so it cannot establish that a decision was made.