Taylor Morris conservation subdivision will add 93 single-family homes

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Planning Commission concerns aside, the Board of Commissioners moved forward Thursday to unanimously approve a conservation subdivision in North Forsyth that will add 93 homes to the community.

The Planning Commission recommended denial of Taylor Morris request to rezone the property at 4850 Burruss Road from agriculture district (A-1) to single family residential (R-2) at its last meeting in October and when the development was first proposed to the Board of Commissioners in November, they appeared not to like it either.

“Let’s lay our cards on the table,”said attorney Ethan Underwood who represents Taylor Morris. “The feedback we got was you all hated it.”

So Underwood came to last week’s meeting to present a new site plan that would require the following variances:

• A reduction in the minimum number of lots abutted by open space on one side from 85 percent to 43 percent;
• A reduction in the minimum setback from primary conservation area from 75 feet to 0 feet;
• A reduction in the minimum percentage of total land area required as open space from 40 percent to 39 percent.

Commissioners added a condition of their own that requires the district’ commissioner to view the site plan’s amenity area pool and the associated cabana.

Fill Ministeries withdrew its request for a conditional use permit (CUP) without prejudice.