Hall County Commissioners (HCC) are set to review a wide range of items during their work session Monday and voting meeting Thursday, including moving ahead with plans to make permanent repairs to Falcon Crest Drive where a culvert was washed out by recent torrential rains.
UPDATE #5: Falcon Crest Drive now open
That caused a number of families to be confined to their homes or unable to get to them for several days because the street is the only to get to them or leave them.
The board is poised to approve an “emergency” contract for the work, totaling $869,340.
Commissioners are also scheduled to hold the first of three planned public hearings a on a proposed property tax rate increase UPDATE: Hall Co. clarifies proposed property tax increase and a hearing on a proposed amendment to the Forward 2045 Comprehensive Plan.
Several land‑use requests are scheduled for discussion. One involves a proposal to change the zoning of a 19‑acre tract on Winder Highway near Howington Road from planned industrial development to light industrial. Another request seeks approval for a special use to allow a five-lot subdivision on a combined 16‑acre property on Point View Circle near Thunder Point Drive. A separate item asks for a variance to reduce required road frontage for a planned two‑lot subdivision on Gilmer Road near Georgia Highway 52.
Another agenda item includes a proposed purchase of ten new vehicles for the sheriff’s office at a cost of $451,314.
(Both meetings will be streamed as they happen on this website.)
(This is an AI assisted story.)