Oconee County, GA Politics

LAD Trucking let the City of Watkinsville officially know Wednesday evening at the meeting at the Community Center of the urgent need to expand after an ultra-successful partnership with Carrier truck lines had made every inch of the expansive property on Barnett Shoals Road used as far as storage for the refrigerator front end of the cooler big rigs you see carrying frozen goods down the road.  Mack Guest IV of LAD Trucking With Caterpillar keeping the economic boom going locally, the need for trucking will continue to expand for a while, and Watkinsville will remain a hub in transit, metal, pottery, and glass for the foreseeable future. Watkinsville City Council September 11, 2013 The City Council listened to engineer Mark Campbell before approving the less than one acre disturbance on the back end of the old Southwire property. Some discussion was exchanged about storm water run off and the tributaries of the the nearby Oconee River, and the motion contained languag...

AGENDA CITY OF WATKINSVILLE September 11, 2013 CALL TO ORDER QUORUM CHECK PRESENTATION OF THE WATKINSVILLE BEAUTIFUL YARD AWARD MINUTES August 14, 2013 August 22, 2013 Called Meeting APPEARANCES April Harder – business license – Main Street Consulting, Inc. – 46 S. Main Street Sharon Ivey – business license – Southeast Floral Design Center, LLC dba Creative Edge – 1410 Greensboro Highway, Suite C & D Mitchell Powell – business license – SCP Business Solutions, LLC – 1070 Christian Court Ken Beall – LAD Truck Lines Phase 3 – 109 Barnett Shoals Road  ADMINISTRATION August 31, 2013 Reconciliation Reports – General & SPLOST Funds MAYOR’S REPORT CITIZEN’S COMMENTS OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS ADJOURN

Developer Ken Beall and Athens builder Jared York capped off a night of busy business approval at the Watkinsville City Council meeting Wednesday with sketch plat submitted and unanimously approved for Ava's Walk on 2.48 acres of fallow pasture between Wilson and Lawanna abutting Morgan Manor Estates (yes that is where I live). It was a full house for the first time in a long time with all the council members present along with city attorney Joe Reitman. Chief of Police Lee O'Dillon and clerk Julie Sanders were temporarily replaced well by surrogates whose names I should have gotten at the time of the meeting, and for that omission I apologize to our readers. I personally think the small side streets cannot handle the extra traffic or the construction equipment necessary to build these houses. This unanimous passage was done without much input from anyone in the nearby community. Newest city council member Connie Massey seemed to be the only member of the council who took t...