Happy New Year!
2019 is here and the BOC has hit the ground running! We certainly have a lot going on in the county and especially in District 4. On Thursday night our board appointed a new chairman, Commissioner Laura Semanson, I was honored to be elected as Vice-Chair, and Commissioner Dennis Brown was elected as Secretary. We had a night of firsts. It was the first time a lady has ever been elected as Chairman and with the addition of Commissioner Molly Cooper to the board, it is the first time Forsyth County has had three women on the board.
In the coming year, there will be many things coming forward for our county and district. In the next month or so we will be having public hearings on the new residential design standards for the county. D4 has had a moratorium on residential zonings from 2000-2012 until these new standards are approved because the conditions approved in those days were lacking and not up to today’s standards. We are hopeful by July, the county will break ground on the much awaited four laning of 369 highway and the interchange at 369/400, along with the construction of the Coal Mountain Connector Road. We are also going to be bringing forward an overlay for the town center plan for Coal Mountain in 2019. I think folks in the Matt community will see dirt begin to move along Bannister Road and 369 as the developers prepare for the arrival of Publix. On the east side of District 4, land was bought at the end of December for a new fire station to replace one of the oldest fire stations in the county, Fire Station #9, with property at Browns Bridge Road/McBride Lane. Our east/west subarea trail plan starts again next week for the bike/ped plan that goes throughout D4 and connects back to the north/south trail plan. There’s work to do to begin anew on a search for land for a wasterwater treatment facility. I have great aspirations to create a large industrial park in northeast Forsyth as well.
2019 has much to offer but it will take all of us working together for it to be done correctly. I appreciate the faith you’ve placed in me allowing me to serve each of you. I will work hard to not let you down.
Cindy Jones Mills | Commissioner, District 4
Forsyth County Board of Commissioners
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