Marc Eggers

It took nearly 90 minutes to work out some of the details but a 230,000-square foot truck terminal is one step closer to happening following a unanimous recommendation for approval from the Hall County Planning Commission.

Despite receiving a unanimous “recommendation to deny” from the Hall County Planning Commission the rezoning application of Forestar Real Estate Group will continue its trek forward, hoping to find a better outcome when it comes before the Hall County Commission next month.

The Gainesville City Council will decide Tuesday evening whether or not retirement benefits will be made to eligible employees when they turn 60 or when they turn 62 years old.

The required annual audit of the finances and accounting practices of the City of Gainesville was presented to the city council at its work session Thursday morning.

A unanimous recommendation for approval was given by the Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board for what will be Gainesville’s largest mixed-use community ever.

Although the letter itself has yet to be finalized, you can be certain it will speak in no uncertain terms.

Hall County will now require only one reading and one public hearing prior to a vote on a resolution or an ordinance, simplifying the handling of many of the items brought before the Hall County Commission for consideration.

Final approval was given by the Hall County Commission Thursday evening to a pair of separate applications that will finally bring development to 58.5-acres that has been cleared and graded for a decade, but never built-out, at the intersection of Price and Thompson Bridge Roads.

More acres and a lot more parking spots are on their way to the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Cleveland Highway in Gainesville.

The Hall County Commission will decide the fate of a pair of development projects Thursday evening when it hears arguments for and against rezoning and amended zoning.