Two young people are finding a way to affordable housing after the Bartow County Planning Commission approved rezoning measures allowing them to put up manufactured houses on agricultural land.
Colin Mulkey requested rezoning 1.09 acres of agricultural land at 11 37 Taylorsville-Macedonia Road to R-4. Mulkey, who lives nearby, said he wanted to put a manufactured home on the land to make his permanent residence. He said the cost of buying a home elsewhere was too much for him, even though he had a stable job.
Timmy Sanders, who owns an acre of agricultural land at 433 Towe Chapel Road, requested a similar rezoning. He said he wanted to subdivide the acre out of his nearly 5 acres of family land and put a manufactured house on it for his daughter to live.
The board also approved removing a mining designation on the Chemical Products site on Old Mill Road. Officials said the change was because some are showing interest in the land but needed the mining designation removed to make the light industrial zoning uniform to all the land.
The change on the county’s portion of the land doesn’t affect the request on a portion of it before the Cartersville City Council. In that case, the property owner wants rezoning to place a trailer yard on the property.
All three agenda items will go before Bartow County Commissioner Steve Taylor in the next commissioner’s meeting on Jan. 7, 2026.
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