Moultrie council to reconsider rezoning request
Published 9:22 pm Monday, December 18, 2017
MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Moultrie City Council plans to reconsider at Tuesday night’s meeting a rezoning application that was tabled two weeks ago.
Thomasville Investment Properties, LLC, asked for 3.50 acres at 1925 S. Main St. to be rezoned from Residential Planned Unit Development (R-PUD) to Commercial (C-1).
The land is currently a vacant lot across the street from several businesses on South Main Street at Lower Meigs Road. It abuts residential areas on all the other sides.
The council tabled the request at its Dec. 5 meeting after councilmen wanted to know what the developer planned to do with the property.
A representative of the company said it has no tenants lined up, but he said rezoning it commercial will make it easier to market.
The agenda for Tuesday’s meeting also includes references to land that was rezoned two weeks ago. In one case, property on Fourth Avenue Northeast was rezoned from industrial to commercial from a request by Gary Jenkins, but action planned for Tuesday will amend that to show Jenkins Gin Company as the proper applicant.
The council will also consider first and second reading Tuesday of a zoning change to land adjacent to Jenkins’ from industrial to commercial. The land is owned by Farmers Dolomite Lime Company. First and second reading is a procedural matter; actual consideration of the request typically comes at the council’s next meeting.
Also on the agenda for Tuesday:
• Recognition of 2017 Christmas parade winners.
• A resolution to accept a Georgia Department of Transportation agreement for lighting at a roundabout planned for Highway 37 East at Industrial Drive and Cool Springs Road.
• The purchase of decorative lighting for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Mule Barn Park, a part of a downtown redevelopment project.