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Forsyth County Commission alters district plan
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills (second from right) worked for about a year on proposed changes to the master planned district.
What some county officials think was Forsyth County’s first master planned district got a recent makeover by county commissioners.
The commission OK’d revised plans for a nearly 100-acre tract near Ga. 369 and Bannister Road, at the behest of developer Lennar Georgia. When originally approved in 2005, the plan had 374 units. That’s now been dropped to 211 units, the majority of them single-family detached homes. The density of the units has been decreased from 3.92 to 2.22 units per acre.
Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills says the decrease in density and units, plus upgraded landscaping and other standards will make the to-be-developed property a truer master planned district, with amenities such as common areas and walking trails.
