By mutual agreement with the Cherokee County School District, the Woodstock City Council is moving to annex 104 acres containing Woodstock Middle School and Woodstock High School on Towne Lake Hills South Drive.
The council recently had a public hearing and first reading for the annexation proposal, which also calls for rezoning the land from Planned Unit Development in the unincorporated county to Civic District (CV) zoning in the city.
The Cherokee School Board adopted a resolution in March, petitioning Woodstock to annex the school site. The resolution cited such benefits as Woodstock police patrolling a new nature trail in the vicinity, and the city expanding its intergovernmental agreement with the county to maintain area roads.
The land, south of Towne Lake Parkway and west of I-575, would become part of Ward 6. To avoid creating an unincorporated island of the neighboring WellStar medical office building property on Stone Bridge Parkway, the annexation would exclude a 10-foot strip along the eastern property line.
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