O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 32-6-153 (2019)

Factors to be considered by department in making recommendations to planning commissions and in approving or rejecting plats

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Where the department is required to make recommendations to a planning commission under Code Section 32-6-151 or to approve a proposed plat under Code Section 32-6-152, the department, in addition to considering other factors, shall base its recommendation or approval on the following being provided for in the plat:

(1) Dedication to the department in fee simple of any portion of the subdivision which includes any part of the state highway system, such dedication to include land necessary for future widening of the state highway system; and

(2) An adequate provision for traffic safety in laying out public roads, drives, driveways, or access ways which enter the state highway system.

History

Code 1933, § 95A-951, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 613, § 4.