Oconee County Industrial Development Authority Says Zoning Not Holding Up Industrial Development

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners asked the members of the county’s Industrial Development Authority to study the feasibility of changing the county’s approach to zoning as a way to attract industrial development to the county.

The Development Authority recommended instead that the county should create one or more industrial sites each between 25 and 75 acres in size and that the county should make sure those sites have needed infrastructure for development.

Tomorrow night, Rick Waller, chair of the Development Authority, is scheduled to make his report at the agenda-setting meeting of the Board of Commissioners. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the courthouse.

Zoning “is not the key issue for industry,” Waller is expected to say, reflecting the report he is delivering to the BOC. 

For an explanation of the differing views of the BOC and the Development Authority, go to Oconee County Observations.