Housing & Growth in Stephens County
Housing, subdivisions, zoning, annexations, land use, and neighborhood change.
Where and how could the community grow?Housing & Growth issues in Stephens County
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The proposal would shift a small parcel from agricultural to residential zoning so it can be combined with an adjoining home lot.
A roughly 1-acre parcel on Tower Road is up for rezoning from agricultural-intensive to agricultural-residential use so it can be used for housing.
Stephens County sends its female inmates to the Jackson County jail and pays the bill, and commissioners now face a new, larger invoice.
The commission's unanimous vote lets a property owner keep two manufactured homes on a parcel smaller than the two acres normally required by county rules.
The variance lets Fred C. and Deborah P. Meeks divide their property into a smaller 0.66-acre tract despite the county's 1-acre minimum lot size.
Cook Construction and Real Estate is seeking to annex and rezone land into the City of Baldwin for a mixed-use commercial development that would need state sign-off before…
The county has rezoned land on Nub Garland Road from agricultural to single-family residential, clearing the way for Howington Farms, LLC to build homes there.
A proposed mixed-use project of 165 homes and retail space near Toccoa is going through a state regional-impact review before any local zoning decision.
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