Affordable housing project one step closer to coming to Blue RidgeCity Council, Community, News
May 10, 2021
, by Natalie Kissel
Blue Ridge, Ga. – The Beverly J. Searles Affordable Housing project is one step closer to coming to Blue Ridge. This comes after the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend moving forward with rezoning of certain acreage to R3 high density residential.
The Beverly J. Searles Foundation, a Georgia based nonprofit that develops affordable housing, has a variety of requests pertaining to properties located along Mineral Springs Drive.
Philip Searles explains to the Planning Commission the plans for the affordable housing project.
Among these requests is for 1.2 acres of the property to be annexed into the City of Blue Ridge. Variances will also be considered for Phase 2 of this project, which will include units for age restrictive (senior) living. These variances are to reduce the number of required parking spaces from two per unit to one pe
Revolutionary map expanding statewide internet access
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UGA’s Vinson Institute leads the way for Georgians to get connected
Wide swaths of South Georgia lack access to high-speed internet service.
But where are the most households lacking broadband access in the state? Fulton County.
Thanks to a groundbreaking map the first of its kind in the United States community leaders and telecommunications companies in Georgia can now easily identify broadband dead zones down to a single address and expand access to those areas.
“Approximately 10 percent of the population of Georgia is not served,” said Eric McRae, associate director of information technology outreach services at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Government, who oversaw the map’s creation. “That’s not too bad, or doesn’t seem like it is. But when you actually start thinking about it, that’s a million people that don’t have service.”