A Scott Mill timeline

This is mostly based on a timeline I received from an active community member.

 

April 2002 - IUKA Development requests that its 35 acre site be included in the UGA.  Frank Duke and Mayor Bell agree to a density limit of 1-2 houses per acre. 

 

Summer 2003 - The site is clearcut and advertised for sale.  

 

Early summer 2005 - The Camp. Plan is endorsed and the area south of Scott King Rd. is categorized Suburban Tier, instead of Rural.  A day later the IUKA land is announced to be "under contract."

 

August 2005 - About 9 acres are added to the property and rezoning is requested, just before the UDO is passed.  

 

January 2006 - Scott Mill is announced.  Two or three days before the Planning Commission (PC) meeting, Bill Ripley contacts nearby residents.  The Commission delays its decision 30 days for community consultation by Ripley.  Jordan Lake Operations Manager Dan Brown wrote to the Planning Dept., apparently critical of the rezoning, but not expecting much consideration of his comments.

 

February 2006 - Ripley schedules a meeting with the community the Thursday before a Tuesday PC meeting, but then misses the consultation meeting.  He presents a plan to the Commission, which community members deride as an empty "'etch-a-sketch' plan."  The PC delays a decision another 60 days and requests that Ripley confer with the community.

 

March 2006 - Two meetings are held at the Parkwood Branch Library, but residents say Ripley angrily broke off negotiations in the end. 

 

April 2006 - Ripley presents the same plan to the PC, without any committed elemts, including an agreement with the Planning Dept. to leave the area south of the powerline undisturbed. 

 

After that timeline was written there were rezoning heatings at County Commissioner meetings in (I think) June, August, and September and third-party negotiations.  Now it looks as if, unless the Commissioners approve the current crooked and unsatisfactory plan, that it will be deferred yet again.  It reminds me of the area which is now Grandale Mill, which was cleared a few times over I think more than a decade, before finally being built upon.