After hearing opposition from neighborhood residents – one of whom unboxed a box turtle – and receiving a request from the Ogeechee Riverkeeper organization, Statesboro City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 18, tabled to Dec. 2 a decision on a request to rezone a 28-acre tract on Cypress Lake Road at the bypass for a mixed-use development containing a Kroger supermarket.

Southeastern Property Acquisitions LLC, based in Augusta, has requested that the two adjoining parcels with the addresses 6850 Cypress Lake Road and 7406 Veterans Memorial Parkway, at the intersection, be rezoned from R-3 residential to MX “mixed use.” What makes the plan “mixed” commercial and residential is an area sketched for about 75 homes between the existing Whispering Pines neighborhood and the proposed Kroger shopping ce

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