The Statham City Council will wait at least another month before voting on a rezoning request that would allow a large residential subdivision of more than 170 single-family homes south of Atlanta Highway in the downtown area.
The council voted Tuesday, Dec. 15, to table the request by Macas Development and the Mrs. Kurtz Moore and Jack Rivers Stapleton estates (property owners) to rezone 75.5 acres at 541 and 546 Moore Dr. for 174 single-family homes to be built on smaller lots than allowed under the current zoning. The developer had 197 homes included in the original application.
The council, which already held a public hearing on the request Dec. 3, after delaying that by a month, is now scheduled to hold a vote at its 7 p.m. Jan. 19 meeting.
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A proposed subdivision of more than 300 single-family homes in unincorporated Statham was shot down by the Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
The board voted 5-1 â with commissioner Joe Goodman opposed to chairman Pat Graham s motion and commissioner Rolando Alvarez absent â to deny a request by Manor Restorations to rezone 95 acres at 575 Wall Rd. between State Route 316 and Atlanta Highway and change the future land-use map character designation property from Rural Reserve to 316 Innovation Corridor in order to build 318 single-family homes. Manor Restorations, which has been active in rezoning and development requests around the county in recent years, had proposed that a little more than 20 percent of the homes (67) be age-restricted to 55 years old and up.