The summer of annexation is not over yet. Annexations in unincorporated south Fulton continued Oct. 9 with Fairburn City Council voting to annex 855 acres on the city’s south side.

The largest property annexed was the city-owned 282-acre tract west of Bohanon Road and situated between I-85 and the Fayette County line. Formerly the planned location for a city wastewater treatment plant, the area has been converted to a nature preserve. The area is zoned AG-1 Agricultural.

Several parcels along the west side of Ga. Highway 74 adjacent to the Fayette County line were included in the annexation move. Those included the 10.44-acre Knowles tract located south of Landrum Road and west of Hwy. 74, zoned C-2 Commercial, and the 43.58-acre Carroll tract situated further south along Hwy. 74 and zoned Ag-1 and C-2. Located south adjacent to the Fayette County line was the 7.95-acre Hobgood tract, zoned AG-1. Further north along Hwy. 74 near I-85, the McDonald’s Restaurant was also annexed.

Property annexed west of the city included the 137.45-acre Owens Corning facility situated near U.S. Highway 29. The tract carries a M-2 Heavy Industrial zoning.

Fairburn also added four properties to the southeast of the city to its expanding city limits. The largest of the sites was the 263.49-acre Adessa Atlanta property. Other properties included the 54.66-acre U.S. Foods facility on the east side of Spence Road south of Oakley Industrial, a 16.45-acre tract at 7300 Oakley Industrial zoned Heavy Industrial and an M-2 zoned, 38.76-acre tract south of Oakley and west of Fayetteville Road near Oakley Township subdivision.

Fairburn announced plans to continue annexation efforts prior to the stated Oct. 30 deadline with the upcoming annexation the Line Creek and Park Lane subdivisions and properties along Bishop, Herndon, White Mill and John Rivers roads. The annexation hearings to be held later this month will come under the 60 percent method, where 60 percent of property owners and 60 percent of registered voters.

Existing south Fulton cities have annexed more than 10,000 acres of unincorporated land since spring. The cities maintain that Senate Bills 552 and 553, which established the charters of the new cities of South Fulton and Chattahoochee Hills, allowed them to annex until Oct. 30. The South Fulton Concerned Citizens, Inc. recently objected to the annexations. Representing the new City of South Fulton, the group filed suit in Fulton Superior Court to have all annexations since late April nullified.

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