Board will consider 141-acre development with more than 400 residences at Thursday meeting
News July 19, 2022
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Board of Commissioners will consider Northpoint Capital Investment Holding’s plan for a 141-acre commercial/residential development when it meets at 5 pm Thursday in the County Administration Building, 101 E. Main Street in Cumming.
Northpoint will ask the Board to rezone the property from Agricultural, Neighborhood Shopping and Single-family residential to Master Planned District to facilitate 250 residential lots, 228 attached residential units, and commercial buildings totaling 63,650 square feet with 294 parking spaces. The property is located at170,172 and 176 Fowler Hill Road, 1105 and 1175Mullinax Road and Union Hill Road.
Surya Realty is asking to rezone 18.3 acres from Agricultural District to single-family residential for the construction of 26 residential lots with a density of 1.42 units per acre.
Additionally, Southern Heritage Home Builders is asking that 52.8 acres be rezoned from Agricultural District to single-family for to construct 53 residential lots.
Other items to be considered under Old Business include:
- Passport Experiences, LLC request to build an outdoor commercial recreational facility and massage parlor associated with a personal service establishment in buildings totaling 76,811 sq. ft. with 261 parking spaces on 10.6357 acres currently;
- Melissa Shipman’s request for a conditional use permit (CUP) to operate a 10,952 sq. ft. private school in an existing building with 44 parking spaces on 1.89 acres currently zoned Commercial Business District (CBD);
- Capkey Clifton Partners LLC request to rezone from Commercial Business District (CBD) to Restricted Industrial District (M1) on 3.982 acres for a 32,025 sq. ft. office, warehouse, contractor’s establishment, manufacturing, processing and assembling or wholesale trade establishment with 33 parking spaces;
- Tire Discounters, Inc. request to build an 8,215 sq. ft. minor automobile service establishment with 40 parking spaces on 3.379 acres currently zoned Commercial Business District (CBD).
The county is also expected to approve the FY 2002 millage rate. Fetch Your News has posted that information in a separate article.
Forsyth County Millage rate to remain unchanged; public hearings scheduled for July
Featured Stories June 22, 2021
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners today (June 22announces its intention to maintain the County’s Maintenance & Operations, Bond and Fire millage rates currently in place with no change. Due to the growth in the tax digest, Maintenance & Operations property taxes levied by the County this year will increase by a net 1.98% over the rollback millage rate.
The proposed County Maintenance & Operations rate remains unchanged at 4.791 mills. The proposed Fire rate remains unchanged at 2.175 mills. The proposed Bond rate remains unchanged at 0.930 mills.These rates will fund the County’s 2022 general operating budget, which is currently in the preliminary stages of development. Forsyth County continues to have millage rates among the lowest in metro Atlanta.
A growth of 4.54% in Forsyth County’s tax digest means that, while the County is maintaining the same millage rates with no change, the anticipated total collections will increase. Of the 4.54% growth, 2.52%is due to new construction in 2020 and the remaining 2.02% comes from increased values from reassessments.
Any change in an individual tax bill will depend upon the change in assessed valuation for that property and the value of any Homestead Exemption, which may also change with the assessed value. When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments or growth occurred.
The preliminary 2022 budget presented to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners is based on a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate, therefore before the Board of Commissioners may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited and encouraged to attend the public hearings:
Thursday, July 8 at 11 a.m.
Thursday, July 8 at 5 p.m.
Thursday, July 22 at 6 p.m.
All three public hearings will be held at the Forsyth County Administration Building (110 E. Main St.).
Adoption of the millage rate is slated for July 22 at 6:30 p.m. as part of the Board of Commissioners
regular meeting.