It will be sponsored by the BOC and other elected officials and will not be paid for with taxpayers money, according to Dumas. The Homer city leaders are beginning the process of designating a zoning classification on each tract of land in the town. The zoning committee met Thursday to begin the arduous task of placing each piece of property in the city in the proper zone. After meeting for more than two hours, the committee had completed about one-third of the zoning designations. The committee will meet again at 6 p.m. Thursday at city hall.
Plans are for the mapping to be completed then.
Zoning does not necessarily correspond to land use. However, the land is used as a guide for how the properties are zoned, according to Tom O'Bryant of the Georgia Mountains Regional Development Center. For mapping purposes, each designation is assigned a color. You're not going to make everybody happy, but you must try to be as consistent as possible. The Banks County Planning Commission approved an application for two heavy breeder hen houses on Shady Grove Road during its meeting Tuesday evening.