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Matt Elder (Left) With Guy Herring (Aaron Nowak/Lee Becker)
The Oconee County Planning Commission voted a second time on Monday night to recommend that the Board of Commissioners not rezone 47 acres at the corner of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector for a major shopping center.
The vote on Monday had six Commission members recommending denial and three voting against that recommendation.
The vote on Jan. 19, when the rezone first came before the Commission, had been unanimous, with all eight voting members in favor of denial.
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Steven Strickland and Chuck Hunt changed their votes, and the newly appointed Commission member, Matt Elder, replaced a denial vote by Brian Fosen with his vote against denial. Fosen stepped down following the January meeting.