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County approves Coal Mountain mixed-use center By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Mike Holihan and Michelle Lacobelle stand in front of their “Little Guy Cat Rescue,” a flexible tunnel Lacobelle conceived as a means to provide felines a safe path down a tree. The tunnel can be arranged in a spiral configuration using zip ties and staples to secure it to a tree. Holihan helped write the patent application and is the second and last-named inventor of Lacobelle’s idea. Read story, Page 9.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — For decades, Coal Mountain in north Forsyth County has been a quiet, rural community, untouched by the changes that development has brought to the county’s southern end. But change may be on the way thanks to a recent decision by the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. At a meeting Dec. 15, commissioners unanimously approved final plans for the Coal Mountain Town Center project, letting national homebuilder Toll Brothers start work on a 140-acre multi-use development at the intersection of Ga. 9, Ga. 369 and Settingdown Road. Plans for the project, which have been in development for more than five years, spurred Forsyth County to create a new zoning district, the Coal Mountain Town Center Overlay, attorney Christopher Light said. Light told commissioners that with the new overlay, the Coal Mountain Town Center project will become a “gateway to North Forsyth” and guide development in the surrounding community with a common vision,
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