Aubrey Meeting, 3/27 Monday - Will YOU Protect Bartow?

Come Protect Bartow and Prevent Hyper-Dense Development.

The Bartow Freedom Coalition team has obtained this LATEST updated map of the Aubrey Concept Plan proposal to be considered at the 3/27 planning commission meeting. The beige area is designated “low density” housing. But do NOT be deceived. The County RE-DEFINED high density (6 single family homes per acre”) to mean “low density” (3 homes per acre)! The original concept plan is below (note that the original area for some “landfill” has been removed from within purple mining area original map which is re-produced **below).

On Monday, 3/27 at 6 pm, the Bartow Planning Commission will consider a proposal to allow the “Aubrey Corp” land in Northeast Bartow to be re-zoned. The land is privately held and would allow more hyper-dense housing. This is the opportunity to ensure that development here in Bartow is responsible. An action plan for testimony at the meeting is offered at the end. You can count on many who support no development and hyper-dense development to testify. Will you testify for RESPONSIBLE development? The future is in your hands…..

(From Bartow Planning webpage): “NOTICE - Planning Commission March 27 and April 24 meetings (each 6:00 PM) in Courtroom D
- Due to anticipated large crowds at the March 27 and April 24 Planning Commission meetings, each at 6:00 PM, the location will be Courtroom D, top floor of the courthouse, 135 W. Cherokee Ave, Cartersville. These are public meetings. If you would like to speak for or against a zoning case, please arrive before the start of the meeting and sign up on sheets that staff will have at the meeting entrance doors.” (*See more details about meeting below).

As you recall the County Commission changed the definition of “high-density” housing to mean “low-density” without changing the fact that six (6) houses could be built on a single acre of land. The proposed development of Aubrey would allow the what is misleadingly labelled as “low-density” label for housing developing in vast tracts of land. It would preserve “Greenspace” although there are many people trying to stop ANY development. In this argument there seem to be only two “socially acceptable” extremes offered: High Density development or “no” development. Bartow County Citizens need RESPONSIBLE Development, which means more single family homes. They have said as much when surveyed by our own county government. That would mean zoning for “R-1” at about 3 houses per acre, rather than “R-8” which is six houses per acre. It would also mean reserving land for actual agriculture. (continued below…..)

The “Low Density” areas for development are in yellow on the right. The Left map is the current development in Bartow. The “low-density” would allow ACTUAL HIGH DENISITY HOUSING at 6 houses per acre, rather than 3, due to some ordinance re-definitions of “high-density” by the county commission. The Large swath on right middle areas in greed in the “Aubrey” land area proposed to be transformed to high density housing.

This entire redevelopment is a cautionary tale of how a place can be overdeveloped like Cobb County. It is also pilot project for large groups like the globalist “World Economic Forum” taking over land development to corral people into high density housing and remove agricultural land from production.

If you would like responsible development of desired low density single family homes sought by Bartow residents , then show up to speak for responsible development. In fact the Bartow GOP recently passed a resolution supporting a key part of this proposal: that no more than 10% of new housing be high density single family homes. The Bartow Freedom Coalition has offered the following concepts for responsible development:

• Modify the proposed zoning so that true lower density housing is built on 90% of the land zones for residential development.

• Ensure any mining is environmentally responsible.

• Avoid working with the unaccountable groups like the Nature Conservancy and Trust for Public Lands. (Instead work with government to protect a small segment of land that can be managed by the representatives of the people: elected government).

• Ensure the zoning commission and County Commissioner Taylor only approve development as supported by the citizens of Bartow annunciated in the development survey.

In Freedom!

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*Details from Bartow County planning commission website.

NOTICE - The Aubrey Corporation zoning cases (northeast Bartow)
- Click Here for rezoning case RZ-2597-23 info. Proposal for total approximately 16,500 acres in Northeast Bartow is to keep existing zoning districts and add an overlay PGDD (Planned Greenspace and Development District) to apply to this land.
- Click Here for the rezoning case Concept Plan map. 
- Click Here for the existing zoning map for the properties. 
- State DRI (Development of Regional Impact) review - click Here for the applicant submitted info and report from the State NWGRC (Northwest Georgia Regional Commission).
- Planning Commission will review the rezoning case on March 27 at 6:00 PM in Courtroom D (top floor) of the courthouse, 135 W. Cherokee Ave, Cartersville. Commissioner Taylor's hearing will be April 12 at 10:00 AM in the courthouse.
- The applicant submitted text amendment was approved by Commissioner Taylor on March 8 to revise the zoning ordinance and add the PGDD overlay district.

Planning Commission
Next meeting March 27 at 6:00 PM, courthouse top floor Courtroom D, 135 W. Cherokee Ave, Cartersville. Agenda and Cases summary plus Presentation summary. Commissioner's hearing will be April 12 at 10:00 AM, courthouse main floor hearing room. These are public meetings - anyone can attend. Disclosure form. See 2023 PC Calendar. Questions? osborner@bartowcountyga.gov 

**original Aubrey Concept plan. replaced by the map above. The area marked potential “C&D” placement (landfill) has been removed (in one light purple area inside mining, which would remain. Some mining has been removed.