Planning Commission to consider modifications to UDC Tuesday

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Planning Commission will consider a number of modifications to the Unified Development Code when it meets Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the County Administration Building, 110  East Main Street in Cumming.

• UDC modifications related to construction hours;
• UDC modifications related to signage for open storage yards;
• UDC modifications related to performance standards;
• UDC modifications related to exemption for non-residential plat requirement;
• UDC modifications related to dumpsters in residential rezoning districts.

The Commission will also review and discuss the following zoning applications scheduled for public hearing on Aug. 24:

• CP 210008—CK Holdings, LLC;
• HP 210005 – Greg Sample;
• ZA 4001 – Century Communities of Georgia, LLC;
• ZA 4009 – Nitsye, LLC;
• ZA 4010 — McFarland Road Associates, LLC;
• ZA 4013 — OCS Enterprises, Inc.;
• ZA 4015 – Matt Sosebee;
• ZA 4016 – Taylor Morrison of Georgia, LLC

The Planning Commission is a recommending body only. They are delegated the responsibility of holding the only public hearing on rezoning applications, conditional use permits, and home occupation permits. The Planning Commission also holds the public hearing on all variance requests that were filed and scheduled to be considered simultaneously and pertaining to the same property with a rezoning, conditional use permit, or home occupation permit application. The Planning Commission is also responsible for holding the first public hearing on amendments to the text of the Unified Development Code (UDC) and other items, such as the Short Term Work Program, Comprehensive Plan, etc.