On the agenda: Spalding County Planning Commission - Apr 29, 2026 — data center (Apr 29)

Agenda
Planning Commission - Regular Meeting April
28, 2026
6:00 PM
Room 108, Annex Building
119 E. Solomon Street
Griffin, GA 30223
1.

Call to Order

2.

Invocation
1.

3.

Pledge to Flag
1.

4.

Commissioner Doug Hardwick to deliver the Invocation.

Chair Mary Louise Upshaw to lead the Pledge to the Flag.

New Business
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Application 26-01FLUM: LBM Associates, owner, 0 Tomochichi Road and 1221
Tomochichi Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223; located in Land Lots 10, 11, and 12 of the 2nd
Land District and Land Lot 81 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 214 01016B and 214
01016, consisting of approximately 291.04 total acres. The applicant is requesting to
rezone from AR-1 (Agricultural and Residential) and R-2 (Single-Family Residential) to C1C (Manufacturing Light), and the property is located in the Towaliga Residential
Character Area, thus requiring a Future Land Use Map Amendment.

Application 26-01Z: LBM Associates, owner, 0 Tomochichi Road and 1221 Tomochichi
Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223; located in Land Lots 10, 11, and 12 of the 2nd Land District
and Land Lot 81 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 214 01016B and 214 01016,
consisting of approximately 291.04 total acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from
AR-1 (Agricultural and Residential) and R-2 (Single-Family Residential) to C-1C
(Manufacturing Light) for a data center campus.

Application 26-01S: LBM Associates, owner, 0 Tomochichi Road and 1221 Tomochichi
Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223; located in Land Lots 10, 11, and 12 of the 2nd Land District
and Land Lot 81 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 214 01016B and 214 01016,
consisting of approximately 291.04 total acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from
AR-1 (Agricultural and Residential) and R-2 (Single-Family Residential) to C-1C
(Manufacturing Light) and a special exception for a data center campus on the C-1C zoned
parcels, per Section 1403A(B)(8).

Application 26-07V: LBM Associates, owner, 0 Tomochichi Road and 1221 Tomochichi
Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223; located in Land Lots 10, 11, and 12 of the 2nd Land District
and Land Lot 81 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 214 01016B and 214 01016,
consisting of approximately 291.04 total acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from
AR-1 (Agricultural and Residential) and R-2 (Single-Family Residential) to C-1C
(Manufacturing Light) and a variance from the exclusion of data centers in the S-4
Sensitive Land Wetlands Protection District, found in Articles 21B, per the requirements of
Section 1403A(B)(8)(b), and also a variance for the maximum building height allowed in
C-1C zoning.
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Application 26-04 FLUM: High Falls 16, LLC, owner, 3881 High Falls Road; located in
Land Lot 83 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 218 02011C, consisting of approximately
3.86 total acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from AR-1 Agricultural and
Residential to C-2 Manufacturing, and the property is located in the Rural Community
Character Area, thus requiring a Future Land Use Map Amendment.

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Application 26-08Z: High Falls 16, LLC, owner, 3881 High Falls Road; located in Land
Lot 83 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel Nos. 218 02011C, consisting of approximately 3.86
total acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from AR-1 Agricultural and Residential
to C-2 Manufacturing.

7.

Preliminary Plat: Birdie Rd. 7-lot residential subdivision. Land Lot 56 of the 3rd Land
District.

8.

Application 26-03FLUM: Emily and Thomas Utts, owners, 1135 Baptist Camp Road
(Parcel 244 02004A); located in Land Lot 169 of the 3rd Land District, consisting of
approximately 1 acre. The applicant is requesting to rezone from R-1 (Single-Family
Residential) to commercial, and the property is located in the Sun City / Heron Bay
Character Area, thus requiring a Future Land Use Map Amendment.

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Application 26-09Z: Christopher Ianuale and Wendy Laverso, owners, 1501 Macon Road
(Parcel 229 01009), located in Land Lot 204 of the 2nd Land District, consisting of 0.95
acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone from R-2 (Single Family Residential) to R-6
(Planned Residential Community District).

10. Application 26-05S: Amy Kolman Schaeffer, owner, 2239 N. McDonough Road, Griffin,
Georgia 30223; located in Land Lot 112 of the 2nd Land District, Parcel No. 204 01003D,
consisting of 75.59 acres. The applicant is requesting a special exception to place a new
manufactured home on the AR-1 zoned parcel, per Section 503(B)(18).
11. Application 26-06Z: BRTU Construction, Inc., owner, 0 School Road, Griffin, Georgia
30223; located in Land Lot 107 of the 3rd Land District, Parcel No. 500 06006A,
consisting of 0.8 acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone the property from R-1
(Single-Family Residential) to C-1 (Highway Commercial), for a continuance of
commercial truck parking and a commercial driveway on the property.
12. Proposed text amendment to Appendix IV - Zoning, Appendix E, Sign Ordinance, to
consider revisions pertaining to standards for general advertising signs (billboards).
5.

Minutes

1.

Consideration of Minutes from March 31, 2026 Meeting.

6.

Report of Commissioners

7.

Adjournment