MACON, Ga. — Forest Hill Road in North Macon has turn out to be a winding street of cracked asphalt and potholes able to damaging a car, or one thing worse. With a gradual circulation of site visitors, the way forward for Forest Hill Road might quickly have much more individuals driving alongside the street as a part of their each day route. On Monday, the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission accepted plans for one more large house complicated on Forest Hill Road in North Macon. The growth is not the one matter amongst native leaders currently in regards to the street.
Macon-Bibb District 4 Commissioner Mallory Jones spoke concerning the disrepair of the winding, slender, two-lane throughout a September 19 fee assembly.
“It’s horrible; it is like a third-world county,” mentioned Commissioner Jones. “The border, the sting on either side, and it is slender and curvy like a snake.”
Mayor Lester Miller acknowledged the wanted enchancment however mentioned the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) shelved a undertaking to widen and repave the street. Mayor Miller mentioned on the time, it was unreasonable to spend Macon’s personal money to restore what the GDOT had plans to do.
Now, much more site visitors could possibly be coming to the realm. Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning accepted a 288-unit house growth on the 1677 location of Forest Hill Road. That stretch of the roadway falls below the oversight of Commissioner Valerie Wynn in District 1.
Middle Georgia resident Rick Giles mentioned the mix of the deteriorating street, the approval of the event, and the added site visitors it might deliver might throw one other wrench within the gears.
“It’s type of a inhabitants factor,” mentioned Giles. “There has been this mass exodus as much as northern Bibb County, the roads, and the poor folks that have lived their complete lives. They’re those who most likely have the most important gripes about it. It’s unlucky, however possibly it is one thing someday any individual will have a look at and say, ‘Hey, let’s handle this.”
Current plans for the event embody just one approach in and a technique out. Planning and Zoning mentioned the builders should get hold of approvals from extra Macon-Bibb County departments and the Georgia Department of Transportation.
