Boswell Properties Lists Tracts Affected By SR 316 Transformation

Boswell Properties, owned by State Transportation Board member Jamie Boswell, is at the center of the rezone involving his client Maxie Price that is before the Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night.

Boswell not only is listing the 47 acres owned by Price, but he has been informed of a decision by Georgia Department of Transportation senior officials to overrule regional engineers who had rejected Price’s request for access to the Oconee Connector from his property.

Boswell also is listing at least 13 other properties that will be affected by decisions made by the Department of Transportation as it moves forward with plans to transform SR 316 into a limited access highway.

Included are nine tracts totaling 92 acres listed by Boswell Properties at Dials Mill Road.

Design work on an interchange for that roadway and nearby Dials Mill Extension are still being worked out, Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell said last month.

GDOT has fast tracked that project, however, giving it a start date of 2024, the same as for the Oconee Connector but ahead the interchanges for the more integral Mars Hill Road and McNutt Creek Road.

Jamie Boswell, in his role as a member of the Transportation Board, also will be asked next month to approve a $100,000 salary increase for Georgia Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry.

McMurry ultimately is responsible for how the Dials Mill Road intersection is designed, as he was for the decision to alter plans for the interchange with the Oconee Connector.

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