Landscape Group Met With Oconee County Planners To Discuss Complaints About Development Code

Landscape designer Jane Bath is unhappy.

She says developers in Oconee County are planting too many red oaks and red maples, planting them too close together and in straight lines, and planting them too close to power lines.

She says the problem is with the county’s Unified Development Code (UDC) and the county’s planners.

On Thursday, at the invitation of Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis, she brought a group of land planners and nursery owners to the Planning Department to lend support to her complaints.

The group didn’t necessarily agree with Bath, however, and at least one voiced strong opposition to any changes in the UDC that would put more regulations on landscaping in the county.

For details of the meeting and story surrounding it, go to Oconee County Observations.