Oconee County, GA Politics

Thank God that developer Frank Gunter Property LLC dropped their lawsuit against the Oconee County Board of Commissioners for an ill-advised, poorly planned and almost unanimously opposed shopping center in a neighborhood that does not need one. Almost everyone in the Chaddwyck subdivision - at ground zero of this proposed development - came out against this bird brained proposal, as did the Planning Commission and initially at least so did the Board of Commissioners. Put a Whole Foods or Trader Joes there (or anywhere in Oconee for that matter) and I might be down with it. Former Oconee County Board of Education candidate Ashley Hood should put her name in for the newest slot on the Oconee Planning Commission advertised in the Enterprise this week. I drive my son to school a couple of times a week to Athens Academy along LaVista Road off 441 and as anyone who has tried to exit from the neighboring Waffle House, it is already difficult to turn left against traffic. I turned right on to...

OK, first off, shame on the Oconee County Board of Commissioners for ruining LaVista Drive off Hwy. 441 in the small sliver of the Athens area of Oconee County near Athens Academy by approving the rezoning despite massive neighborhood opposition near the Chaddwyck subdivision for some ill-conceived grocery store chain, and I urge everyone to boycott this store once it is built some months from now. Second off, Acting Superintendent Jackson of the Oconee County Board of Education may be a fine man and decent administrator but the mere fact that he was at the helm during the Dickens gets to keep his job during softball state title while banging and stalking his former player scandal pretty much disqualifies him from consideration for the permanent position in my book. I hope the guy from Banks County does a good job. Third, go see an Oconee County Recreation Department basketball game now that the regular season has started. My son Lowell played very well in his opener Monday and even th...