Proposed bill would allow local governments to consider school impacts in zoning requests

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House Bill 898, sponsored by state rep. Mike Wilensky (D - Dunwoody), would codify a local government’s option to consider impacts to the local school system when making zoning decisions. Stockbridge representative Demetrius Douglas is a co-signer on the bill.

HB 898 would amend Georgia code to add the following: “[zoning] standards may...

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