Industrial rezoning approved in Locust Grove

The Locust Grove City Council voted May 7 to rezone a 120-acre site on the north end of the city from residential agricultural and general commercial to light manufacturing.

The property, known as the Gardner 42 project, is on the east side of I-75 and the west side of Hwy. 42, and for decades was a peach orchard. The applicant’s current plan is to construct two buildings on the site of about one million square feet each. City officials stated that the applicant will need to reappear before the council to have its landscape plan and exterior elevations approved.