Multi-family, mixed-use subdivision planned on Hog Mountain Road

The Flowery Branch City Council (FBCC) is scheduled to hear an annexation and rezoning request for property at 4560 Hog Mountain Road at a meeting April 3 but the agenda for the meeting is no more specific than that.

The applicant wishes to have the property, if it is annexed, zoned to Flowery Branch Mixed-Use. It’s now in the county and the current zoning is Hall County Agricultural (A).

At the same meeting, a hearing is planned on a request for a Preliminary Plat and a proposed townhome subdivision for 5465 & 5475 East Main Street.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.