Loganville Mayor Skip Baliles cast a tie-breaking vote at the June city council meeting to deny a rezoning request for a proposed 111-unit single-family detached housing development on nearly 28 acres on Twin Lakes Road.
In breaking the tie, Baliles said he could “not vote for something that means that I’ve got to throw all of our zoning in the trash.”
Baliles’ reference, in part, was to the fact that The Revive Land Group, the Atlanta-based development firm pursuing the project, had initially presented its plan for the tract, which also has frontage on U.S. Highway 78, with a request that it be rezoned from its highway commercial classification to RM-6, a residential classification allowing for two-family and multiple-family dwellings. Under that request, The Revive Land Group had proposed a development comprising 26 single-family detached homes and 122 townhomes…