City Planner Rusty Ligon said residents fear the restaurant may cause cut through traffic in the neighborhood, but he says there's a solution, a required left turn; denying a special use request for customer drive through is also a solution.
"That's the best alternative for both the restaurant and the neighborhood is to force them to exit out of the restaurant onto Green Street Circle and then to Thompson Bridge Road," Ligon said. "If Council decides to deny the request they can still have the restaurant, just not the drive-through."
Ligon added that city code calls for non-spill exterior lighting and he'll check with other areas which have particular decibel levels that restaurants have to adhere to so there won't be overly loud ordering over the restaurant speaker system near Green Street Circle homes.
GAINESVILLE NOT INTERESTED
Hall County Commissioners are proposing to sell the old county jail downtown which they are billing as a $25-million asset.
Gainesville Mayor Ruth Bruner said that price includes the $2-million a year lease to Corrections Corporation of America for housing illegal aliens.
"The building is only worth "$2-million and we were going to offer $4-million to the county and let them run the jail for seven years giving them close to $20-million for their profit," Mayor Bruner said.
Bruner said the city is not interested in buying the property but CCA would be a likely prospect; she said City Council still wants the jail out of the Midtown Development District.
Monday during a county commission work session Billy Powell said selling the jail would give the county's general fund a badly needed boost after the recession brought on low tax and fee collections.
City Planner Rusty Ligon said residents fear the restaurant may cause cut through traffic through the neighborhood, but he says there
Bruner said the city is not interested in buying the property but CCA would be a likely prospect
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