The Henry County Board of Commissioners voted at its Sept. 17 regular meeting to approve a conditional use request for an outdoor adventure park, reversing a previous denial by the county’s Zoning Advisory Board.
The plan is for a park featuring ziplines to be developed on a 141-acre site on Iris Lake Road, just east of Hwy. 42 between McDonough and Locust Grove. Developers said that they plan for the park to be similar to Historic Banning Mills.
Several local residents spoke to the commissioners in favor of the project, saying that it would provide an outdoor activity that preserves the property rather than allowing several hundred homes to be developed there. The conditional use was approved with 20 conditions, mostly referring to safety issues.
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