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Friday, November 3, 2006
Now accepting permits
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The new cities of Johns Creek and Milton are kinda, sorta accepting permits for rezonings and other development stuff.
Under a new program, the company hired to start up the city and provide day-to-day services began accepting applications on Thursday for what is being called a courtesy review.
In the courtesy review, staff members of CH2M Hill-OMI will review applications for compliance with existing Fulton County laws at current Fulton County fees. That way, if the City Councils adopt the Fulton County regulations intact as planned, much of the legwork on the reviews will already have been done.
But applicants have to sign a waiver of certain rights to be in the program, and agree to refile the application if the City Council rejects or tweaks the zoning laws. The City Council is expected to adopt the zoning laws, and modify them later as needed.
Fulton County has stopped accepting applications for most types of permits because it didn’t want to dump unfinished reviews on the new cities, which start delivering services Dec. 1. Developers, builders and others have protested that their projects were at an expensive standstill between the time Fulton County stopped taking applications and the time the new cities start accepting them.
Applications should be filed at the cities transition offices at 115 Perimeter Center Place NE, Suite 785, Atlanta from 8:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.
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Milton City Hall
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Milton has a city hall.
The headquarters for the newly incorporated city of 20,000 will be located at the southeastern corner of the city at Webb Road and Deerfield Parkway at 13000 Deerfield Parkway, Building 100 at the Deerfield Professional Center.
“This will be semi-permanent, but there will be something more centrally located later on,” Annie Vermilya, executive assistant to the city manager. “We do want to move into something, but it’s not the No. 1 priority.”
The 23,000-square-foot, single-story office will house the City Council chambers, municipal court, a permit counter, offices for staff, and conference rooms. The lease is for five years at about $300,000 a year.
Construction crews could start as soon as Monday, but the building will require relatively little modification for $400,000. Staff members probably will start moving in the second week in December. In the meantime, the public should come to the city transition office at 115 Perimeter Center Place NE, Suite 785, Atlanta from 8:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.
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