September 4, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County Regional Planning Commission will have a public hearing during its next regular monthly meeting on Monday, September 9 at 6 p.m. at the courthouse on whether to change the subdivision road standards by removing the tar and chip availability to contractors and requiring that only asphalt or concrete be the standard for new road construction.
If approved by the planning commission, the new permitted types of surfacing standards would only apply to newly constructed roads. Existing roads in subdivisions or those over the last five years that have already received at least preliminary plat approval by the planning commission could not be held to the new standards. Those roads would be maintained in the manner they were constructed, tar and chip, etc.
Road Supervisor Danny Hale, who is making the recommendation, said by changing the standards, roads would be built better and hold up longer.
In addition to this issue, the agenda for the planning commission is as follows:
Consideration of a preliminary subdivision plat for property located on Johnson Chapel Road (JRB Developers Division)
Consideration of a final subdivision plat for property located on Goff Ridge Road and Landis Road (Brown Division)
Consideration of a final subdivision plat for property located on Allen Ferry Road (Clayton Division)
Consideration of a final subdivision plat for property located on Old Snow Hill Road (Duke Division)
Consideration of a final subdivision plat for property located on A.B. Frazier Road (Turner Division)
Staff Report-Arms Division and Averbach Combination
Other business as necessary.