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The bulk of the two-and-a-half-hour Bryan County commission meeting Tuesday night in Black Creek dealt with the commissioner-initiated rezoning of five parcels in north Bryan County in the Eldora Road vicinity.
The commission considered, and ultimately approved with conditions, the rezoning of five parcels from A-5 to I-1, general commercial. The rezonings include acreage at Highway 80 Warnell Farms Road, known as the Blitchton Timberland tract; property at Highway 80 and I-16, known as the Herbert Warnell Tract; property at Highway 80 at Olive Branch Road, known as the Warnell Farm Tract; property off Eldora Road, known as the Conley tract and property off Eldora Road, known as the Davis tract. The rezoning of the properties were commissioner initiated because of a t