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Group seeks to use space for seniors with disabilities By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Several speakers pleaded with the Milton City Council Aug. 7 to approve a zoning change on Hamby Road, which would transform a single-family residence into a home for seniors with disabilities. Tammy Urey, with DAUFY Adult Community Services, requested a special use permit that would allow one full-time employee to support four seniors, 55 and older, with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the 5,081-square-foot home. The building sits on 2.15 acres of land zoned agricultural. “We want them to live as equal citizens like the rest of you and I,” Urey said. “We’re not going to change the structure. We’re just going to support these individuals.” The Milton Planning Commission approved the application June 28 in a 3-2 vote, but with conditions based on some concerns brought forth by residents wary of the home being used for drug rehabilitation or mental illness. Planners had recommended allowing only residents with developmental disabilities, prohibiting use for a sober living home, substance abuse recovery home or a halfway house. Alternative senior housing There were two other speakers at the Aug. 7 council meeting who
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Rutland said her main concern is the “precedent” a rezoning would set. Any approved use permit is in perpetuity, and succeeding owners of the building would be allowed by right to use it for the same purposes. “This is the second home that has been purchased on Hamby Road recently for the sole intent for it to be a business,” Rutland said. “That is not why people move to Milton. They move to Milton to live in a community.” The council voted to defer the zoning item to the Sept. 6 regular meeting, in addition to two items that
MILTON, Ga. — With advanced voting for its municipal election two months away, the City of Milton has cemented all poll worker hires. Offer letters went out Aug. 4. There will be a total of 43 poll workers for Milton’s first selfconducted local election, where three City Council Post 2 seats are up for grabs. Three poll managers, six assistant poll managers and more than 30 poll clerks have been hired, and their wages were approved at the council meeting Aug. 7. Poll managers were hired first. Two of them helped Milton’s election team of City Manager Steve Krokoff, Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis and City Clerk Tammy Lowit make selections on the other positions. While Vernetta Nuriddin, the city’s election consultant, was initially expected to help hire poll workers for the election, Krokoff said she did not participate in the process. Krokoff also serves as the city’s elections superintendent. Lowit will serve as the absentee ballot clerk and
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Tammy Urey with DAUFY Adult Community Services advocates for a special use permit Aug. 7 that would allow one full-time employee to support four seniors, 55 and older, with intellectual and developmental disabilities at a residence on Hamby Road. The City Council voted to defer the zoning item to the Sept. 6 regular meeting. advocated for alternative senior housing on Hamby Road, both with children with disabilities. Milton resident Tracy Markoff, filled with emotion, said her daughter who is “severely disabled” participates in DAUFY’s day program. “I hope that when she reaches the age that she would qualify for a home like this, that it’ll be available for her in the community that we’ve lived in for all of these years and where she’s grown,” Markoff said. But Milton resident Kara Rutland, who lives on Hamby Road, opposed the plan, along with around 20 others who had signed a petition.