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Zoning problems? The Klan to the rescue!

Sign marking the so-called Klan farm that popped up in a Milton zoning dispute. Photo by Bill Torpy.

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Sign marking the so-called Klan farm that popped up in a Milton zoning dispute. Photo by Bill Torpy.
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March 2, 2016

Milton mixes all the benefits of country livin' with the upscale comfort of suburbia. The streets are smooth, the lawns pampered and the residents are happy.

But one neighborhood has endured a cornucopia of threats ranging from pig farm to parolees (from Florida, no less) to the KKK.

If Six Hills subdivision is a nice place for a million-dollar mansion, it's got to be a fine spot for a cross burning. Welcome to the zoning feud from hell. Get the story in today's Bill Torpy at Large column.

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