Preliminary approval given to Newton mixed-use development plan

COVINGTON, Ga. — Newton County Planning Fee has accredited plans for a big mixed-use improvement, a nine-lot subdivision and a spot of worship in a residential space.

Planning commissioners on July 27 voted with employees’s situations for:

• Preliminary plat for Dobbs Touchdown on 213.86 acres at Crowell Highway and Harold Dobbs Highway. 

The mixed-use improvement is deliberate to incorporate 133 townhomes, 254 single-family houses, and business and civic makes use of in an R-2 (Single-Household Residential) zone and the Almon Overlay district.

The long run land use is DN (Improvement Node), and PRC (Parks/Recreation/Conservation). Gee Harvey of Caballero Holdings LLC in Cumming, Georgia, was the applicant.

• Preliminary plat for Jefferson’s Reserve for 9 tons on 20 acres in an AR (Agricultural Residential) zone at Coated Bridge Highway and Little Mill Highway. Bradley Swarthout of Naked Holdings LLC in Covington was the applicant.

A preliminary plat is barely heard by the Planning Fee. It’s conceptual in nature and faces additional overview by county planners and engineers to examine for compliance with improvement laws, stated county Improvement Providers interim director Shena Applewhaite.

• An administrative use allow for a spot of worship on 1.33 acres in an R-3 (Single-Household Residential) zone at 290 Flat Rock Highway.

Future land use is Residential. Applicant was Antonio McGuire of New Imaginative and prescient Group Ministries.

• Advice of a rezoning of 1.81 acres on Loyd Highway from A (Agricultural) to AR (Agricultural Residential) to subdivide a parcel for development of a residence. Future land use is Rural Residential.  The planning fee’s approval was really useful to the Newton County Board of Commissioners, which has the ultimate say on rezonings.

• Variance for the required 22-foot entrance yard setback all the way down to 12 toes on 0.23 of an acre within the R-2 (Single-Household Residential) zone at 370 Mackenzie Court docket. Steven Gresham of Pulte House Firm LLC was the applicant.