The Chattooga County Land Development Commission

Created in 2022, the Chattooga County Land Development Commission oversees the activity of both commercial and residential subdivisions within the county, using the Chattooga County Land Development Ordinance, which lists the purpose of the commission below:

(1) To promote health safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the county.

(2) To encourage economically sound and stable land development.

(3) To encourage the development of economically sound and stable communities.

(4) To ensure the provision of required streets, utilities, and other facilities and services to new land developments;

(5) To ensure the adequate provision of safe and convenient traffic, access, and circulation both vehicular and pedestrian, in new land developments.

(6) To ensure the provision of needed natural areas, public open spaces, and building sites in new

developments through the dedication or reservation of land for recreational, educational, and other purposes.

(7) To ensure, in general, the wise development of new areas, in harmony with the comprehensive plan of the county.

(8) To lessen congestion in the streets and roads, to secure safety from fire and other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to promote such development of land as will tend to facilitate and conserve adequate provision for transportation, water supply, drainage, sanitation, and for other purposes.

The members of the volunteers of the commission are as follows:

• Eddy Willingham (Chairman)
• Myra Green 
• Grey Winstead (Vice Chairman)
• Ansley Smith (Secretary)
• Lee Hamby 
• BJ. Hall (Staff Member/Director)

Click Here to Download the Ordinance

Click Here to Download the Preliminary Plat Application

Meeting Information

Land Development Meetings are held during the following months: January, April, July, and October. They will be held at the Chattooga County Civic Center (44 Hwy 48 Summerville, GA) at 6PM EST. Also, they will be advertised in the local paper.

-- 23/01/17 Meeting Notes and Documents --

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-- 23/02/28 Meeting Notes and Documents -- 

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WAFFLE HOUSE (ID # 22-000002)= APPROVED (Download Document Here)

ATRIUM HEALTH ER (ID # 22-000001) = APPROVED WITH REVISIONS (Download Document Here)
----Document Requested by the Committee on their agreement with Walmart for the shared Egress from Hwy 27

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Proposed Ordinance Change Excluding Commercial Developments based on Public Input (DOWNLOAD HERE)

Proposed Ordinance Change Including Commercial Developments based on Public Input {aka. Redlin Version} (DOWNLOAD HERE)

-- 23/03/14 Meeting Notes and Documents -- 

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The Zoom Link from this meeting malfunctioned when played back - there is no Link to the Video

-- 23/05/09 Meeting Notes and Documents -- 

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(Minutes will be Posted Soon)

APPROVED: Zaxby's Restaurant (in Hurley's Crossing) 

(Continued, awaiting more information) Phillip Martz (Hwy 48/: Has applied for address) 

(Continued, to review the list of variance requests): Woodland Capital (Sand Pit Road)

(Continued, Upon Review of Specialized Variance Request): Ed Watters (Evans Road) 

-- 23/06/20 Meeting Announcement -- 

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Old Business

Zaxby's, Highway 27, Clarification of the Preliminary Plat that has already been approved (RESOLVED BY RESOLUTION)

Discussion of Ed Watters' Evan's and Green Road issue in regards to Class (RESOLVED BY RESOLUTION)

Board Discussion of revisions to the ordinance based on public input (SENT BOTH TO COMMISSIONER)

New Business

NO LONGER SCHEDULED

Phillip Martz, West Summerville Church Road, seeking Tentative Approval for Commercial Project #23-000002

Woodland Capitol,  Sand Pit Road, seeking Tentative Approval for Class VII Subdivision Project #23-000003

Ed Watters, HWY 157, seeking Tentative Approval for Class II Subdivision #23-000004

-- 23/08/15 Meeting Announcement -- 

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—Call to Order—

—Minutes—

Minutes from Last Meeting Read by Secretary

—Old Business—
 None

—New Business—
 - Phillip Martz, West Summerville Church Road, seeking Tentative Approval for Commercial Project #23-000002

- Woodland Capitol/Rome Timber, Sand Pit Road, seeking Tentative Approval for Class VII Subdivision Project #23-000003

—Adjournment of Meeting—

Current Meeting Notice (+ZOOM Link will be posted below)

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