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Dozens of neighbors packed into the April 24 Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission meeting to oppose a new subdivision on Walden Road.

330 people oppose rezoning farmland for 164 new homes on Walden Road

A standing-room-only crowd packed the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission hearing trying to preserve nearly 97 acres as agricultural, not residential
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 26, 2023
The Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission welcomed The Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission welcomed aboard Commissioner Wykesia Stafford, second from right, at their Feb. 27 meeting. Stafford replaces Bryan Scott, who moved out of the county.

P&Z: Neighbors protest cows; Mercer’s dyslexia school; east Macon subdivision changes and ‘Glamping’ in east Bibb

Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission forced to make ‘bad decision’ for Lizella neighbors who fear livestock will lower property values
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
March 1, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

GDOT promised better in Pleasant Hill after cutting it in half it with I-75. Has the state kept its word?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 7, 2023
In Phase III of the Treetops at Lake Tobesofkee, construction of 80 single-family homes has been approved on lots where building stalled in the 2008 recession.

Building boom planned in recession-stalled west Macon neighborhoods

Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission approved 257 new homes in three subdivisions near Lake Tobesofkee
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 28, 2022
Millennium Bar & Grill’s owner originally sought to have adult entertainment at 2455 Emery Highway, but did not meet the necessary distance requirements away from the neighboring X-Mart Adult Supercenter about 800 feet away.

P&Z considers overnight bikini bar, potential Pleasant Hill ‘opioid clinic’

Monday’s agenda includes new homes in old neighborhoods, Bloomfield convenience store, new North Macon locations for dance studio, tutoring center
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
February 11, 2022
Elliott Dunwody VII bought the Bennett Estate at 2545 Vineville Ave. after Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning rezoned it to allow for HoneyBee's Guesthouse and Social Club.

Judge: Macon-Bibb P&Z “abused its discretion” in Vineville social club rezoning

Bibb Superior Court Judge Connie Williford annuls P&Z’s decision concerning ‘HoneyBee’s’ commercial use in Vineville Historic District
Liz Fabian
January 21, 2022
After two decades of zoning fights, a specialty grocery store is approved for the northwest corner of Bass and Zebulon roads.

Zebulon store, Bass complex, Bowman apts. summon ghosts of P&Z past

Commissioners approve winery, Dunkin’ Donuts, specialty grocery, new life for old Charter Lake property
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
December 15, 2021
An LGBTQ coffee shop and lounge featuring entertainment and drag shows is proposed for the 300 block of Second Street.

LGBTQ lounge downtown, new houses by Tobesofkee, transitional home go to P&Z

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 22, 2021
Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning commissioners will consider a 90-seat, dine-in movie theatre with beer garden on Linden Avenue in Mercer Village.

Mercer Village movie theatre, apartment complexes, blighted house go before P&Z

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 20, 2021
This Beall's Hill sign stands across the street from the plot of land on Oglethorpe Street that will house new duplexes in Beall's Hill.

Beall’s Hill duplexes beg question: why more renters?

Micah Johnston
July 23, 2021
The old Roxy Theatre could be a hub of activity again when its parking lot houses food trucks and a pedestrian plaza in a renaissance of the old Greenwood Bottoms Black business district near Downtown Macon.

Roxy Theatre’s history brings new life to a Macon Black business district

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
December 1, 2020
Lynmore Estates Ambassadors take care of odd jobs for older residents in a program originally created through Habitat for Humanity.

‘Ambassadors’ help older residents in once-troubled Macon neighborhood

Rylee Kirk, Center for Collaborative Journalism
June 1, 2020
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