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Rezoning postponed again for Lanier Golf Course property
Owners want master planned district; neighbors wary of losing greenspace
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The owners of Lanier Golf Course have agreed to another extension for Forsyth County's court-ordered rezoning of their property.

Following a community meeting earlier this week, the owners agreed to push the deadline back two weeks, from Thursday's scheduled vote to the county commission's July 21 meeting, Chairman Brian Tam said.

It's the second extension of the deadline, which was initially moved from June 26 with hopes of a compromise between owners and neighbors in the more than four-year dispute.

In 2007, owners John Manton and George Bagley Jr. sued the county after commissioners rejected their request to rezone the property from agricultural to a master planned district.

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