The proposed rezoning for a new neighborhood along Kathy Lake and Reed Roads near Varnell. (From: Whitfield County Planning Commission)

VARNELL, Ga. (WDEF)- Rapid development continues to be a topic of discussion all across the Tennessee Valley.

This week that conversation intensified in Whitfield County.

The backlash from the Varnell community is directed at a proposed neighborhood on 251 acres of land.

This would be located on Kathy Lake and Reed Roads north of Highway 201.

The proposal, brought forward by JAD and Levitt, would bring hundreds of new homes around the $300,000 range to the area.

They requested the Planning Commission to support a rezoning from an agricultural lot to the most dense version of a rural residential neighborhood, R-5.

Developers say that they would be o

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