Sunday Edition April 8, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 $25M-plus industrial Cartersville council park coming to Bartow approves BY JAMES SWIFT “We’re in the planning stages right now and we’ll [email protected] start our permitting process in the next four weeks,” Etowah he said. “And we hope to break ground by early Cartersville-based H&H Realty LLC has an- summer and start building spaces for lease by the nounced plans for a new industrial park in Bartow’s first quarter of 2019.” Preserve northeast quadrant. Assuming planning, zoning and permitting goes “It’s a project we’re calling ICP, which stands for smoothly, Harris said he expects construction to rezoning Interstate Commerce Park,” said H&H broker Mark take nine to 12 months. Harris. “We’re going to be developing 62 acres and The planned development will be north of Cass BY NEIL. B. MCGAHEE building six different buildings totaling around White Road, in between Grogan Road and Spring [email protected] 380,000 square feet.” Place Road. JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS H&H Realty LLC broker Mark Harris helped facilitate the Harris, a real estate veteran of almost 40 years, Once completed, Harris said the park will provide The Cartersville City Council development of 62 acres of land along Cass White Road that will said the anticipated budget for the project will be spent a good portion of Thursday’s SEE , PAGE 3A be the future site of a new industrial park. between $25 million to $28 million. PARK meeting amending ordinances and buying stuff — lots of stuff. First on the agenda was the first reading of Z18-03, a request to re- Highlands zone approximately 202 acres on Center Road from R-10 (Single Academic Day Back in the Saddle Family Residential) to RA-12 (Sin- gle Family Dwelling) and R-20 (Single- Family Residential) with rep juggles conditions. “In 2004, approximately 202 school, family acres were rezoned from R-20 to R-10 with conditions for two tracts of land along Center Road west of BY DONNA HARRIS and adjacent to I-75,” Planning Di- [email protected] rector Randy Mannino explained. “Nothing ever happened on it and Juggling family life and college it sat there for years.” classes has been a challenge for Mannino said the first phase was Brandi Rhodes, but it hasn’t prevented to be called Etowah Preserve and her from maintaining a 4.0 GPA. was developed with infrastructure And that perfect average was the intact, including roads, curbs and reason the Cassville resident was gutters, street lights, utility lines chosen as Georgia Highlands Col- and meters, stormwater pipes and lege’s Board of Regents Academic detention ponds. However, the Day representative. project stalled about 2008 and no SEE GHC PAGE 6A construction activities have oc- curred since. The latest applicant wants to modify the existing infrastructure to accommodate 199 town homes and revert the rest of the land back to R-20. Phase two development would occur at a later date. A portion of the phase two land was sold to LGI Homes, which developed it in to a 79-lot subdivision named Autumn Canyon. Rhodes On a lighter note, council was RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS asked to amend Chapter 20 of the Hats of all shapes, designs and colors — some requiring more maintenance than others — were the traditional order of the city’s sign ordinance dealing with day at the Steeplechase Saturday on the grounds of Kingston Downs. electronic signs, brightness con- trols and use of stationary elec- Bartow observes tronic signs in regards to a Sexual Assault Steeplechase draws 3,000-plus to Kingston Downs proposed Racetrac fueling station to be built on East Main Street near Awareness and BY JAMES SWIFT I-75. [email protected] “While reviewing the electronic Prevention Month sign ordinance,” Mannino said, Despite some early morning rains and “the staff discovered gaps in the or- BY MARIE NESMITH chilly temperatures, the inaugural running of dinance regarding the definition of [email protected] the Georgia Steeplechase still brought thou- electronic freestanding signs, sands of spectators to the Bartow/Floyd bor- brightness control, the use and ap- In recognition of April being der on Saturday. plication of LED technology for Sexual Assault Awareness and Event co-chair Anthony-Scott Hobbs, gas stations to illuminate signs and Prevention Month, Sexual As- who owns the Kennesaw-based software and provide remote updates to fuel pric- sault Center of Northwest Geor- marketing firm Magnum Contact, tabbed the ing in electronic freestanding signs. gia is shining a light on this estimated attendance at Kingston Downs to The city’s first master bond ordi- ongoing problem. be between 3,000-3,500 people. nance was issued in November “During the month of April, “We’ve known the number for a while just 1984. With the issuance of new water and sewer revenue bonds we will be participating in activ- based on ticket sales, where things were going,” he said. “What I try to say to folks is seeming certain, a new master ities already going on in the com- we’re running a four-month-old business. bond ordinance was adopted. munity — i.e. health fairs, We’ll be in the red this year, and there’s a lot Another text amendment was college self-defense classes, etc. of learning lessons when it comes to corpo- needed to add requirements for — to speak to participants and rate sponsors and getting the word out — we townhouse development within a bring more awareness on the needed a little bit more time.” multi-use district including: RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS SEE , PAGE 2A AWARENESS SEE STEEPLECHASE, PAGE 8A The inaugural Georgia Steeplechase took place in Kingston Saturday. SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 7A BBQ and Brews a boon for small businesses BY JAMES SWIFT based small business that specializes in groom- [email protected] ing accessories for today’s goatee- and Van Dyke-sporting gentlemen. Despite the event’s name, Saturday’s BBQ Thomason, who travels to about 60 festivals and Brews festivities in Downtown Cartersville a year, also attended last year’s BBQ and Brews certainly weren’t limited to sauce-slathered event in Cartersville. pork and foamy cups of lager. “This year, at this point during the day, I’m Amidst the rows of food trucks and trailer- probably up about 50 percent — we’re having RANDY PARKER/DTN mounted pilsner taps, one could find vendors an amazing day today,” he said “We thank Stacie Davis, program manager selling everything from soap to lipstick to T- Cartersville for having this. There are not a lot for Sexual Assault Center of shirts with religious messages to James Thoma- of cities left in Georgia that can pull off an event Northwest Georgia’s Bartow son’s designer facial hair oils. like this.” office, watches as Sheriff Clark “My product goes well with BBQ and Brews, The event is operated by Canton-based BBQ Millsap applies a magnet to a cruiser signifying April is because apparently, people who drink beer and and Brews Inc. Cartersville Downtown RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Sexual Assault Awareness and eat barbecue like beards, too,” said the owner Saturday’s BBQ and Brews festival drew a big crowd to Downtown SEE , PAGE 3A Prevention Month. of Mountain Man Beard Products, a Jasper- BBQ Cartersville. INSIDE TODAY Mostly Obituaries . .2A Family Living . .3C sunny VOLUME 71, NO. 289 World/National . .4A Entertainment . .7C High 61 Blotter . .7A Business . .1D www.daily-tribune.com Sports . .1B Classified . .4D Low 44 2A Sunday, April 8, 2018 • www.daily-tribune.com Local The Daily Tribune News ContactUs Awareness The Daily Tribune News FROM PAGE 1A Address: issue of sexual assault/abuse,” sistent. There was a bit of an in- may have fallen victim to a sex- 251 S. Tennessee St. said Stacie Davis, program man- crease in our cases from 2015 to ual assault, encourage them to Cartersville, GA 30120 ager for Sexual Assault Center of 2016 and 2017, which really just seek help and report the incident, Mailing Address: NWGA’s Bartow office. “We means victims are reporting more or they may continue to be vic- 251 S. Tennessee St. also work very closely with all cases than not. Statistics state timized. Cartersville, GA 30120 the Bartow County and that 1 in 6 women have been vic- “All of our marked patrol units Cartersville city law enforcement tims of sexual assault in their will display the ribbon magnets Phone: 770-382-4545 agencies, and they are very sup- lifetime. Imagine what the num- highlighting the Sexual Assault After 5 p.m.: 770-382-4548 Fax: 770-382-2711 portive of the services we pro- bers would look like if all of Awareness and Prevention vide the communities. We have them reported. Month. We are teaming up with Alan Davis, partnered with them to have teal “One of the primary key fac- the Sexual Assault Center of Publisher ribbon magnets on all the patrol tors to these numbers is cases Northwest Georgia to bring more Jason Greenberg, cars during the month of April in being reported. Only 310 out of attention to this subject, and to Managing Editor honor of Sexual Assault Aware- every 1,000 sexual assaults are let victims of sexual assault Jennifer Moates, ness Month. reported to police. That means know that there are resources and Advertising Director “Lastly, we have two about 2 out of 3 go unreported.