The Oconee County Planning Commission will be asked on Monday night to give its approval to a rezone request for a 107 room hotel on Parkway Boulevard west of the Piedmont Healthcare Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital.
The plan is to carve 3.14 acres out of a 28.16 acre parcel currently zoned AG (Agricultural). The request is to rezone that 3.14 acre parcel B-2 (Highway Business) for the hotel.
Severn LLC, whose manager is Frankie V. Jordan of the Jordan family, owns the parent parcel.
Oval Hospitality LLC of Athens plans to develop and own the hotel. Minesh Patel is the manager of Oval Hospitality, according to the Georgia Secretary of State business formation document.
Submitted representative drawings for the hotel show what is called a dual brand, with Tru by Hilton and Home2 Suites by Hilton listed on the building exterior. Tru hotels offer small rooms with limited storage, while Home2 Suites is an extended stay hotel.
Also on the agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on Monday is a request by Frank Bishop to change the concept plan for a 2.5 acre parcel in his Epps Bridge Centre II and the list of allowed uses for that land.
Bishop wants to add an automotive oil change and lubrication shop and car wash to the acreage, which sits next to the petroleum pumps at Costco.
That request was on the agenda of the Planning Commission for its January meeting, but no action was taken because bad weather prevented the Commission from having a quorum present to vote.
The Planning Commission on Monday also is scheduled to hear a request from Rhino Mini Storage LLC to modify the previously approved rezoning for 8.37 acres at 1052 Moreland Heights Road.
Hotel Request
The 28.16 acre parcel from which the hotel parcel is to be carved backs up to the Walmart property, which previously was owned by the Jordan Family.
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| Hotel In Yellow (Click To Enlarge) |
Jordan Drive connects the property to Epps Bridge Parkway.
The concept plan for the hotel is for a 66,400 square foot, four-story hotel with 107 rooms.
The development will include an underground stormwater management facility located under a section of the parking area. Concept plans show 117 parking spaces.
The development will include outdoor patio seating, according to the narrative.
Access to the hotel will be via an existing cut and driveway on Parkway Boulevard.
County water and sewer services will be utilized.
Construction will be in a single phase beginning in late 2025 or early 2026, with completion prior to the summer of 2026.
Epps Bridge Centre II
Bishop is asking for two changes in the conditions of the rezone for what is Epps Bridge Centre II, across the Oconee Connector from the original Epps Bridge Centre I.
He is requesting that the county amend the concept plan approved with the March 1, 2016, rezone for Epps Bridge Centre II to “to allow construction of an Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shop and a Car Wash.”
He also is asking for an amendment to the allowed uses “on the property to include: Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shops; Automotive Parts, Accessories, and Tire Stores; Automotive Repair and Maintenance, except Car Washes; General Automotive Repair; and Car Washes.”
The 2016 rezone changed the designation of the property from A-1 (Agricultural District) to B-2 (Highway Business) for a shopping center development.
The 2.5 acre parcel, officially at 6000 Parkway Boulevard, is designated in the rezone plans as an out-parcel for the shopping center.
The narrative included in the 2016 rezone application indicated the approved uses were retail, banking, and restaurants.
The approved 2016 concept plan indicated the out-lot would have a 15,000 square foot retail building.
Bishop is proposing to develop instead an automotive oil change and lubrication shop and a car wash on the site.
Rhino Mini Storage
Tyler McClure, Chief Operating Officer for Rhino Mini Storage LLC, is asking the Planning Commission to modify a rezone of June 1, 2022, for the 8.37 acre parcel he owns on Moreland Heights Road north of the Watkinsville border and partially abutting the property housing the County Administrative Building.
He is asking the Planning Commission to approve increasing the maximum allowed office area from 23,400 SF to 73,800 SF, increasing the number of buildings from four to ten, and removing the previously approved Assisted Living Facility from the concept plan.
The county had amended that 2022 rezone in October of 2023 to include an assisted living facility and three office buildings.
The three previously approved office buildings are currently under construction and will include multi-tenant units that could be used for contractor office, general office, or other similar allowed uses, according to the staff report on the rezone request.
The seven other proposed buildings, if approved, will have roll up doors and small loading docks for loading/unloading for small commercial trucks associated with the office businesses, that report states.
The planning staff has recommended approval of all three of the requests before the Planning Commission on Monday.
The Planning Commission is a citizen advisory board that makes recommendations to the Board of Commissioners, which has final authority on rezone requests.
All three of the request are scheduled to be before the Board of Commissioners on March 4.
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