New facility approved to serve adults in day program

A home health organization plans to build an administrative office in south Bibb County that will offer a day program for adults with developmental disabilities.

All Care Home Health LLC received approval of a conditional-use application Monday to build a 6,931-square-foot structure on about 3 acres to be subdivided from a 100-acre tract at 6790 Houston Road. The proposed 3 acres will front along Walden Road.

The matter received unanimous approval by the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission.

All Care’s office building would be located about 2 miles north of a facility All Care now operates in a shopping center at 5797 Houston Road.

Besides an administrative office, the building would provide space for All Care’s YOUniversity program. Participants in the program are typically dropped off at the facility in the morning and picked up in the afternoon, said Steven Rowland with Rowland Engineering, the civil engineer for the project. While at YOUniversity, “sometimes they will stay there and sometimes (they are transported) to other locations.”

All Care would have about 12 employees on site, and the hours of operations would be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon on Friday.

The applicant says it would provide 43 total parking spaces, but the staff report said that was in excess of the 31 spaces it needs. Reducing the spaces would decrease storm-water runoff.

“All Care employs (more than 100) employees and ... those people do come to the office for training, ... but not all at the same time,” Rowland said. “There is a need for additional parking for these people to come and go, ... and that’s why we provided additional spaces.”

All Care bought more land than it needs right now in order to have room to expand “if the opportunity arises,” he said.

Other items on the agenda were:

CONDITIONAL USES:

3378 Brookdale Ave.: Conditional use to allow a shared kitchen space, C-1 District. Lauren Hightower, applicant. Approved.

321 McCallum Place: Conditional use to allow a pet boarding facility, A-Agricultural District. Michael Wuolukka, applicant. Approved.

996 Oglethorpe St.: Conditional use to allow a church, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant. Approved.

367 Orange St.: Conditional use to allow an additional dwelling on a single lot, HR-3 District. Scott Titshaw, applicant. Deferred by staff.

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS:

996 Oglethorpe St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of a new church, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant. Approved.

367 Orange St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of new dwelling, HR-3 District. Scott Titshaw, applicant. Approved.

564 Mulberry St.: Certificate of Appropriateness to allow design approval of a building addition, CBD-1 District. Samson Group LLC, applicant. Approved.

VARIANCES:

8801-8807 Knoxville Road: Variance to allow a flag lot for a single-family dwelling, A-Agricultural District. Chelsea Edwards, applicant. Approved.

100 Windmill Plantation Road: Variance in fence height and front setback requirements to allow a fence exceeding 4 feet and closer than 10 feet to the R/W, R-1AAA District. Johnny Patterson, applicant. Denied, and applicant given 30 days to bring the fence into compliance.

3902 Juanita Drive: Variance in detached accessory building setback and location requirements, A-Agricultural District. Carlos Garcia, applicant. Approved.

996 Oglethorpe St.: Variance to allow a reduction in parking requirements, HPD-BH District. Cunningham & Co. Engineers Inc., applicant. Approved.

RATIFICATION:

108 Briar Creek Court: Conditional use to allow a manufactured home with decks, A- Agricultural District. Oscar Goings, applicant. Approved.

2518/2520 Riverside Drive: Conditional use to allow a church, C-4 District. New Life Bible Fellowship, George Cribbs, applicant. Approved.

5670 Calvin Drive: Conditional use to allow a campus facilities expansion (tennis courts & cross country track), A-Agricultural District. Gregg Thompson, First Presbyterian Day School, applicant. Approved.

This story was originally published July 24, 2017 at 3:25 PM with the headline "New facility approved to serve adults in day program."