Walker County’s former sole commissioner told the developer of a controversial development across the street from Ridgeland High School that the property was zoned residential two weeks before he rezoned it so to allow construction of 156 units of affordable workforce housing.
The Messenger, through an open records request, obtained a letter from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in which then Sole Commissioner Shannon Whitfield, now chairman of the Board of Commissioners, notified the developer of the property’s zoning.
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