New Fire Station: Rezoning Accomplished

Here is a belated, but hopefully the next-to-final update on the land on which we want to build a new station. To review, a third parcel was to be donated by Forest Kellogg and there was a request to the Oglethorpe County Board of Commissioners to rezone and combine the three parcels into a single parcel and to grant a variance to allow a corner of the new station to be 67 feet from the right of way rather than the 100 feet required for new construction.

It has all been done. On 10 November 2008 the Board of Commissioners granted the requests and on 26 November the Deed of Gift of the third parcel was recorded at the courthouse. These documents have been added to the Rezoning/Variance Request 8 Mb pdf or 2 Mb pdf described in the 15 October 2008 post.





The department gratefully thanks the Board of Commissioners for the rezoning and variance, and especially, through the kind offices of Forest Kellogg, the Woodlands of Georgia, Inc. for the gift of the third parcel.

The process should conclude with the signing of a long-term lease of the property, now in the name of the Commissioners, to Wolfskin VFD, Inc. for the express purpose of maintaining a polling station(!) for the precinct. Whatever works.

- Glenn Galau