Two 'hot' issues to be heard by Gainesville City Counil Tuesday

GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville City Counil Tuesday is to consider two controversial requests - one involving an annexation and the other a rezoning.

The annexation request is for a 231-acre parcel on Gaines Mill Road - with no specified use for the property.

The rezoning concerns plans for a 399-lot subdivision on 124 acres on Brown's Bridge Road.

The planning commission recommended approval of the Gaines Mill request, but denial of the Brown's Bridge applciation. People living near both sites took their objections to the planning board on August 12. This is the third time planners have recommended approval of the Gaines Mill request, only to have the city council deny it each of the first two times.

Signs went up in the Brown's Bridge Road/Montgomery Drive area over the weekend, urging residents to show up at the meeting in opposition to the subdivision proposal.

Tuesday's council meeting has been moved from its usual location, a meeting room at the mountains center, to the mountains center theatre. But, a city official says it not because of the expected turnout for the annexation and rezoning issues, but because the meeting rooms are needed for something elses this week.