Approval Of Minutes By Commissioners Important Because of Rezone

When Oconee County commissioners gathers on June 1 and approve the minutes of their May 4 meeting, they will set the parameters for any near-term plans for development of a shopping center at the corner of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector.

Property owner Maxie Price has 30 days from that date to file an appeal to Oconee County Superior Court of the May 4 denial by the commissioners in a 3 to 1 vote of his request to rezone the 47 acres he owns at that intersection for a large shopping center anchored by a Publix.

Price has 60 days from the June 1 approval of the minutes to come back to the Commission with a scaled-down version of his request, including a modification of the already approved zoning for a smaller shopping center on the acreage.

After a lapse of a year, Price can come back to the Board of Commissioners for reconsideration of the request denied on May 4 or consideration of a modified version of that request.

Approval of the minutes is a routine matter that takes place at the beginning of Commission meetings but has special significance when it includes the record of zoning actions taken by the commissioners.

For more on this story, with video from the May 4 Commission meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.