Sunday Edition December 9, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Cartersville City Council unanimously approves Bartow, microbrewery ordinance, Savoy agreement Pickens share fruits BY JAMES SWIFT
[email protected] of economic Members of the Cartersville City Council voted unanimously Thurs- development day morning to approve amend- ments to both the city’s zoning and partnership alcohol ordinances, setting the stage for microbreweries and distilleries BY JAMES SWIFT to open shop in Cartersville.
[email protected] Per the recently adopted zoning ordinance amendment, the city es- Although Bartow and Pickens tablishes new legal definitions and share an almost microscopic bor- specifies locations where busi- der — the counties touch ever so nesses of the like can operate. It al- slightly northeast of Rydal — the lows distilleries and microbreweries two communities nonetheless in areas designated as multiple-use, JAMES SWIFT/DTN Mayor Matt Santini presides have several things in common. neighborhood-commercial, down- For one, both counties have town business district, office-com- over Thursday’s Cartersville City Council meeting, which major traffic arteries snaking mercial and general-commercial. saw council members through them — I-75 in Bartow, They are also allowed in districts unanimously approve State Route 515 in Pickens. Both zoned light industrial and heavy in- RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS amendments to the city’s are known for being steeped in Work continues on horizontal development at the site of the Savoy Automobile Museum. At dustrial, although distilleries may zoning and alcohol ordinances Civil War history, and both are oft- Thursday’s meeting, the Cartersville City Council unanimously approved a motion annexing to allow microbreweries to an additional 2.353 acres to the development.