RINCON, Ga. (WSAV) – Residents in Rincon are trying to stop a development that would add warehouses in their town, and they’re fighting the rezoning effort with an online petition.
“They’re just kind of cramming it down our throats,” Chris Dupree, who lives in the area that would be affected, said.
Rahn Station Road is in a quiet area of Rincon where you’ll see one or two cars come by every few minutes.
“It’s a two-lane, curvy road. Put an 18-wheeler with a load of whatever you’ve got on it. You’re looking at an accident,” William Horton, who also lives in the area, said.
If the plan to rezone about 425 acres of land to is passed, there will be plenty of trucks up and down Rahn Station servicing the proposed warehouses.
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“These companies are coming in and buying up land and just throwing it in. Our commissioners are not looking at the people already living here,” Horton said.
“They should be looking more to us to make sure we have what we need first. Then, hey, put a little business here, growth here. Bring it up slowly. Something we can absorb,” he continued.