GAINESVILLE - A convenience store is planned near a busy west Gainesville intersection. <br>
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The Gainesville Planning & Appeals Board tomorrow (Tuesday) will be asked to okay annexation of a tract on Brown's Bridge Road near Pearl Nix Parkway, across from Wachovia Bank.<br>
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Ramin Abolfathi is proposing to annex about .2 acre which is already zoned High Business (H-B). Currently on the site is "an older vacant block building," according to a report from the planning staff. <br>
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Abolfathi plans to combine the parcel with another piece of property adjacent to it to the west. Access is planned from both Brown's Bridge Road and Pearl Nix Parkway. <br>
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INDUSTRIALIZED HOUSING<br>
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As we reported last week, a developer who has been locked in a legal dispute with the city over construction of an "industrialized" house in Waters Edge Subdivision will be back before city planners Tuesday. <br>
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Grant Smereczynsky wants the city to rezone the disputed property from R-I to R-II. <br>
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The planning staff recommends denial, saying Smereczynsky is merely trying to circumvent the city's regulations calling for "stick-built" houses only in Waters Edge. The staff's report says there's another factor, as well. "While the proposed industrialized home is a single-family use, the application for rezoning the property to R-II is not consistent with the rezonings of the adjacent properties and is not compatible with the zoning of the entire neighborhood," it reads.<br>
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The lot in question contains a partially-constructed industrialized house. The city ordered that work on the house stopped last year because officials say such structures are not permitted in areas zoned R-I.<br>
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Smereczynsky took the city to court, but lost one round in Hall County Superior Court a few months ago. However, Smereczynsky vowed at that time to keep fighting because, he claims, the state Department of Community Affairs is on his side.
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