Oconee County Board of Commissioners Ignoring and Discussing Zoning Policy

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners is avoiding the discussion of one significant change in zoning law while launching into consideration of another.

Though the county has advertised for qualified persons or organizations to help it develop a proposal for a Transfer of Development Rights program, it has not followed up by seeking actual proposals and has given no indication it plans to do so.

But the Board now has held three discussions about the possibility of advance zoning land the Commission feels should be developed, even if the landowner hasn't asked for the land to be rezoned and may not want it developed.

Whether either of these initiatives will result in change in how the county handles zoning remains to be seen.

The policies are at odds with each other in that any land prezoned prior to the initiation of a TDR program would lesson the effect of the TDR program by removing that land from consideration.

For details of these two potential changes in county zoning policy, go to Oconee County Observations.