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The Gwinnett County Solicitor’s Office has opened an investigation related to two rezoning applications approved by the Gwinnett County BoC. Both cases involve recent rezoning votes by the BoC associated with solid waste transfer stations and campaign contributions made by the developers who benefited from these BoC votes.

The Gwinnett County planning department, planning commission and Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District had recommended denial for the rezoning requests. A group opposed to one of these projects along with nearby business owners, are currently challenging the board’s decision in Superior Court.

The Gwinnett County Solicitor’s Office is responsible for the prosecution of all State misdemeanor crimes in the State Court of Gwinnett County and all County ordinance violations (including traffic citations) in the Recorder’s Court of Gwinnett County.

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Solicitor’s office looks into rezonings
By Jamie Ward
The Gwinnett Daily Post
Sunday, June 7, 2009

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The AJC published an article dated Monday, May 25, 2009 entitled, “Tax assessments drop in five major counties”. The article discusses the continuing real estate collapse, the affect on metro Atlanta counties and questions, “Have they gone far enough”.

The following statistics were provided for comparison:

Five major metro Atlanta counties have dropped values for more than 350,000 parcels:
• Clayton: 90,000 parcels, 70,000 parcels lowered (78%)
• DeKalb: 235,000 parcels, 95,000 parcels lowered (40%)
• Fulton: 335,000 parcels, 100,000 parcels lowered (30%)
• Gwinnett: 273,000 parcels, 70,000 parcels lowered (26%)
• Cobb: 246,000 parcels, 20,000 parcels lowered (8%)

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Tax assessments drop in five major counties
By D.L. BENNETT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Monday, May 25, 2009

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The purpose of this post is to highlight the voting record of your commissioner, Mike Beaudreau as it applies to recent rezoning applications for garbage transfer stations. Even though none of these proposed transfer stations are in our immediate community, it is important to understand how your elected commissioner conducts himself in the face of what is probably intense political pressure coming from within the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners.

The crux of the matter is the appropriate location for a waste transfer station. How Gwinnett County planners and waste professionals recommend one location and how the BoC subsequently rejects these recommendations - by vote - and substitute their own.

It’s about how the BoC’s ultimate decision for location is influenced by political contributions paid to them by the developers who own the land… and the lack of public disclosure of these contributions.

The following articles do a very good job of explaining the situation and are highly recommended reads:
• Gwinnett commissioners under fire over trash stations
By Tim Eberly
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, May 23, 2009

• Laws for disclosure in debate - Applicants not revealing campaign contributions
By Jamie Ward
Gwinnett Daily Post
Sunday, May 3, 2009

• Some skirt spirit of full disclosure
Editorial
Gwinnett Daily Post
Sunday, May 3, 2009

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Zoning, rezoning and special use (SUP) actions taken by the Gwinnett County Planning Commission at its meeting Tuesday, February 17th. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

• BRD-09-001 - Approved with conditions: Buffer reduction from 75 to 27.5 feet in C-2 zone for 0.93-acre tract of land. Location is the 5100 block of Stone Mountain Highway. Planning department recommended approval with conditions.
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• SUP-09-013 - Approved with conditions: Special-use permit in RA-200 zone for 1,347-square-foot cemetery mausoleum. Location is 3600-3700 block of Stone Mountain Highway. Planning department recommended approval with conditions.
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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before February 2. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Where: 2135 W. Park Place Blvd., Stone Mountain
What: Mountain East convenience store/gas station
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The following actions were taken by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on Tues., January 24, 2009. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

RZC-09-011 - Approved with conditions: Applicant requests a rezoning from a single-family residence district (R-100) to a general-business district (C-2) to allow for a 14,088-square-foot building contractor’s office to be located on 0.85 acres. The property is located at the 2000 block of Puckett’s Drive and the 5000 block of Parker-Pucketts Way. The planning department and planning commission recommended approval with conditions.

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The following actions were taken by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on Tues., November 18, 2008. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

SUP-08-076 - Denied without prejudice: A requested special-use permit in a general business district to allow for a used automobile sales lot and accessory service center on 4.11 acres. The property is located at the 4300 block of Stone Mountain Highway. The applicant is Navid Yazdanpanah, Buford and the owner is Karen Maclaurin, Buford. The planning department has recommended approval with conditions and the planning commission has recommended deny without prejudice.

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By MICHAEL PEARSON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The Gwinnett County Redevelopment Agency on Wednesday recommended creation of three new tax allocation districts.

The County Commission now must approve or deny the proposals - and that is expected to come in December. The Gwinnett County School Board would also need to sign on if it were to participate in the effort.

Voters on Tuesday apparently approved a constitutional amendment allowing school districts to once again participate in tax allocation districts. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in February that the state constitution forbade the use of education funds in TADs. Tax allocation districts produce money to pay for redevelopment by diverting revenues from rising property values into a special fund to pay for construction costs.

Gwinnett’s districts would be located along U.S. 78 between Stone Mountain and Snellville, in Norcross along Jimmy Carter Boulevard and in Duluth between Gwinnett Place Mall and I-85.

The funding tools are widely regarding among county officials and the business community as the best way to foster redevelopment in the southern part of the county, which developed between the 1970s and 1980s and is suffering from high vacancies, under-utilized properties and traffic problems.

The Gwinnett Place TAD would feature $2 billion in development spread across four clusters around Gwinnett Place Mall. The Gwinnett Village district envisions two major projects, one at Jimmy Carter Boulevard and I-85, and the other at Indian Trail Boulevard and I-85. And the U.S. 78 district would include three major centers in a district that spans the distance between Stone Mountain and Snellville.

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The following actions were taken by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on Tues., October 28, 2008. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

SUP-08-043 and SUP-08-049 - Denied without prejudice: Two requested special-use permits to allow a 120,075-square-foot, four-story, self-storage facility on a 1.08-acre parcel zoned general business district. The property is located at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay District. The department has recommended approval with conditions. The applicant is Rockbridge Self Storage LLC., Lawrenceville and the owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain. The planning commission action was to deny.

SUP-08-076 - Tabled until Nov. 18: A requested special-use permit in a general-business district to allow for a used automobile sales lot and accessory service center on 4.11 acres. The property is located at the 4300 block of Stone Mountain Highway. The department has recommended approval with conditions. The applicant is Navid Yazdanpanah, Buford and the owner is Karen Maclaurin, Buford. The planning commission tabled this case until its Nov. 5 meeting.

SUP-08-081 - Denied without prejudice: A requested special-use permit in a single-family residence district to allow for a 31,374-square-foot day care facility as an accessory use to an existing church on 11.38 acres. The property is located at the 600 block of Rockbridge Road just outside the city of Lilburn. The department has recommended approval with conditions. The applicant is New Mercies Christian Church, Lilburn, and the owner is Jesse Curney III, Lilburn. The planning commission action was to deny without prejudice.

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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before October 17. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Kohl’s Department Store
4925 Stone Mountain Highway, Lilburn
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SUP-08-043 and SUP-08-049 Two requested special-use permits to allow a 120,075-square-foot, four-story self-storage facility on a 1.08-acre parcel zoned general-business district. The property is located at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay District. The department has recommended approval with conditions. The applicant is Rockbridge Self Storage LLC., Lawrenceville and the owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain.

SUP-08-076 A requested special-use permit in a general-business district to allow for a used automobile sales lot and accessory service center on 4.11 acres. The property is located at the 4300 block of Stone Mountain Highway. The department has recommended approval with conditions. The applicant is Navid Yazdanpanah, Buford, and the owner is Karen Maclaurin, Buford.

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DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS - The following are development permits received by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before September 19. Developers have submitted plans for these sites but have not received the Planning and Development Department’s authorization to begin clearing the land.

• 5414 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lilburn
• Five Forks Trickum Shell
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The Gwinnett County Planning Commission will meet today - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville. The meet begins at 7:00 PM

Items on the agenda that may impact our immediate community:

RZC-07-041 A requested rezoning, reheard by consent order, from a single-family residential district to an office-institutional district to allow for a 1,800-square-foot home to be converted to an office on 2.05 acres. The property is located at the 2100 block of Rockbridge Road. The applicant and owners are Robert and Marilyn Kilby, Snellville.

Action taken: Approved with Conditions
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SUP-08-076 A requested special-use permit in a general business district to allow for a used automobile sales lot and accessory service center on 4.11 acres. The property is located at the 4300 block of Stone Mountain Highway. The applicant is Navid Yazdanpanah, Buford and the owner is Karen Maclaurin, Buford.

Action taken: Tabled until Oct. 21
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SUP-08-043 & SUP-08-049 Two requested special-use permits to allow a 120,075-square-foot, four-story, self-storage facility on a 1.08-acre parcel zoned general business district. The property is located at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay District. The applicant is Rockbridge Self Storage LLC, Lawrenceville and the owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain.

Action taken: Tabled until Oct. 21
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1. Admin Says:
   September 18th, 2008 at 11:38 AM

   The recommending body only took action on three cases.

   RZC-07-041 Heard by order of the court after the applicant’s constitutional rights had been violated the year before, the commission approved a rezoning from a single-family residence to an office and institutional district for a property located in the 2100 block of Rockbridge Road. This same request was denied by the Board of Commissioners in 2007.

   The board also approved with conditions an automotive car wash and oil change facility being conceptualized by Meridian Development to be located at the 500 block of U.S. Highway 78 and the 3200 block of Krisam Creek Drive east of Snellville. One of the conditions set for this development included the prohibition of self-service vacuums and a stipulation that the facility must meet the overlay standards for the Highway 78 district.

   These cases will now move to the Board of Commissioners agenda to be heard at its Tuesday monthly meeting to consider zoning requests.

   Source: Gwinnett Daily Post

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The following actions were taken by the Gwinnett County Planning Commission at their meeting on Tues., August 19, 2008. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Tabled until Sept. 17: Two requested special-use permits to allow a 120,075-square-foot, four-story, self-storage facility on a 1.08-acre parcel zoned general business district. The property is located at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay District. The applicant is Rockbridge Self Storage LLC., Lawrenceville and the owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain. SUP-08-043 & SUP-08-049

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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before August 8. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Where: 2095 W. Park Court, Stone Mountain
What: Mountain East Business Park
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