SILOAM SPRINGS City directors will hear the second reading of Ordinance 21-18 regarding changes to the city code concerning body art businesses during today's city board meeting.
SILOAM SPRINGS City Administrator Phillip Patterson presented city directors with three options to pay the amount owed to the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) and recommended passing the cost on to the citizens Aug. 3 during the city board meeting.
It s gone. At least for Angela Jensen, Alex Sparks and the countless residents who cycled in and out of this bohemian icon, it is gone, and with it not only the opportunity for community, but also for affordable living in a city growing anxiously in anticipation of an onslaught of population.
China Blue or the Blue, as it was fondly called sits at 959 E. 200 South in an historic district on Salt Lake s east-central community among five homes targeted for demolition to make way for new, multi-family apartments. When the owners lost their fight with the city, they painted it white. The psychedelic murals didn t fare any better, lost somewhere under layers of coverup.
Dawson County BOC approves rezonings for gun range, residential developments
At their voting session on Thursday night, the Dawson County Board of Commissioners approved rezoning requests for two proposed developments and allowed the owners of Dawsonville Gun and Pawn to go forward with plans for an indoor shooting range facility.
The development rezonings approved by the board include a 194-lot residential subdivision, planned to be built at the intersection of Dawson Forest and Blacks Mill roads, and a 120-unit mixed-use residential/commercial development proposed to be built near Lumpkin Campground Road and Hwy. 53.
Commissioners also approved a 90-day moratorium on new rezoning requests in multiple different zoning categories, so that the county can conduct a study on efficiency and costs associated with different zoning categories.
Commissioners to discuss COVID-19 vaccination site at work session Thursday
At its meetings on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, the Dawson County Board of Commissioners is set to discuss a number of important topics, including possible locations for a COVID-19 vaccination site, the county’s agreement with the Georgia Forestry Commission and several proposed rezonings.
According to Commission Chairman Billy Thurmond, the board is considering several possible locations for the Dawson County Health Department to set up a secondary vaccination site so that large numbers of people can be vaccinated against COVID-19.
In January, Dawson County held a vaccination event at Rock Creek Park that distributed over 800 vaccines to community members and first responders in a single day.