FLOWERY BRANCH – The vision of Flowery Branch city leaders and what some local residents envision as a worsening problem “bumped-heads” Thursday evening during an online city council work session and voting meeting.
The disagreement involves a vacant 11.34-acre site at the southwest corner of McEver Road and Gainesville Street. It is currently designated as a “Neighborhood Commercial” area under the city’s Comprehensive Plan, but according to documents attached by the city to the rezoning application of local developer Bret Clark, the city’s vision for that site has changed slightly.
According to those documents: “Staff feels under the current economic climate and the state of retail/commercial building it is unrealistic to envision an 11-acre small scale commercial project on this site.”