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Warehouse plan for Mabry Road lot clears Hall Planning Commission
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A vehicle travels Mabry Road toward Old Flowery Branch Road on Wednesday.
Plans for a 48,000-square-foot warehouse on Mabry Road moved forward on Monday after the Hall County Planning Commission recommended approval of a rezoning request. Working with Patton Land Surveying and the Industrial Properties Group, both based in Gainesville, property owner Ben Brock is hoping to develop his 7-acre parcel along the small, paved road into an investment property with a warehouse and office space. The rezoning would change the parcel to Light-Industrial-I from Agricultural-Residential-III. Critics of the rezoning said that it would bring more traffic to the area, which is already at its limit because of the tiny Mabry Road — only 10 feet wide in some places, or less than half of the county’s standards for commercial roads — running between Centennial Drive and Old Flowery Branch Road.