Announcing Mill Creek GA Homes

Announcing Mill Creek GA Homes Site

The Jarvis Team is proud to announce Mill Creek GA Homes (http://MillCreekGAHomes.com), a site dedicated to the home owners in the Mill Creek area.  This area includes Buford Homes, Hoschton Homes, Dacula Homes all in Gwinnett County.

Additionally, the site, Mill Creek GA Homes, focuses specifically on house values in Hidden Falls, house values in Hamilton Mill, house values in Chateau Elan, and initially house values in Trilogy Park.

The Jarvis Team wanted to set out to give real hard facts to the homeowners due to the discrepancy they uncovered.

• 90% or more home buyers start their search online and research up to 8 months before buying a home. 

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• 80% of home sellers list with the first real estate agent they meet and never do any market research on their own. 

The site itself won't likely draw out sellers to it, but the Jarvis Team is starting a door to door campaign to let seller's know about this site. 

Home buyers may find the information interesting but can still search for homes in GA from GAHomesDigest.com.

Tour de Georgia, Hoschton Art Trax and Braselton Bash all merge this Saturday

As temperatures warm and spring blossoms, children and adults are flocking outdoors, looking to get out of the house and have a little fun in the sun.
The coming weekend should provide ample opportunity for outside escapades — three separate outdoor events, the Tour de Georgia, Art Trax and Braselton Bash, are merging in the West Jackson area to bring out a bevy of crowds and maybe a little traffic, too. The following is a weekend guide to the events:Art Trax, downtown Hoschton, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Artists from across Georgia have been “juried,” or screened, before being allowed to show and vend their wares at this new downtown event, one that organizers hope will stick around for years to come.

“How many [attendees] would I like to see? I’d like to see 1,000,” said John Schulte, city council member and Art Trax organizer. Check out the various booths and exhibitions crowded into the downtown square and depot from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attractions will include an on-site potter’s wheel, music, food, children’s entertainment and even a wine tasting at Vinny’s Restaurant in the nearby Towne Center.

Directions: Downtown Hoschton, on Highway 53, just south of Braselton. Parking will be available in nearby streets. Admission: Free Tour de Georgia, 12:30 to 1 p.m., northern Gwinnett County, northern Barrow County: Take a break from Art Trax and arrive early to catch a glimpse of the field for one of the nation’s premier cycling tours, a warm-up of sorts for the prestigious Tour de France, later in the summer.

Pick one of three roadways in the stage six route: Cyclists will enter Highway 124 from Spout Springs Road, ride east past Mill Creek high school, merge into Old Hog Mountain Road, and turn into Highway 211 to continue south into Bethlehem.Also, be sure to look for Braselton resident Nathan O’Neill as he vies for a top spot in the Tour. This is the fifth Tour de Georgia for the Australian-native. He rides for the Health Net team.Directions: Parking should be available in nearby shopping centers and on road shoulders. Arrive early, before the roads are shut down in anticipation of the field. Check www.tourdegeorgia.com for more information on the Tour and the stage six route. Admission: Free Braselton Bash, Year One parking lot, Braselton, 3 to 9 p.m.: After the excitement of the Tour de Georgia and a brief return to Art Trax, get ready for an evening of muscle cars, hot rods and cool classics at the monthly Braselton Bash in the YearOne parking lot. The restoration auto parts manufacturer invites car owners and enthusiasts to cruise the company parking lot, talk shop and enjoy the atmosphere from 3 to 9 p.m. Participants can also vote for the top 25 cars in the show.Admission for car exhibitors is $10, all of which goes to this month’s charity recipient, the YearOne Children’s Charity.All other attendees enter for free.Directions: YearOne parking lot, Cherry Drive off Highway 53, just south of Interstate 85. Admission: Free

Source: Jackson Herald

AJC Reports Hoschton On Tour Of Homes - Paid Advertisement

In keeping with the tradition of non-news reporting, some builders have paid to be on the "Tour of Homes" - Here's the snippet.

... including three by Millard Bowen Communities. In Jefferson is Jameston
Place, with 87 cottage ranches and two-story homes from the $150,000s to
$170,000s, and Northminster Estates, an active-adult community from the
$170,000s to $230,000s. The 106-home Cambridge Farms in Hoschton has
single-family homes from the $220,000s to $320,000s. Information: 706-824-1957
(Jameston Place), 706-824-1933 (Cambridge Farms), 706-654-2010 (Northminster
Estates), www.bowenhomes.com; 706-367-0611, www.jacksoncountybuilders.com/paradeofhomes.htm (Parade of Homes).

There's enough great property in Gwinnett for us to host something that doesn't need to be tied to BOWEN or other tract builders in my humble opinion.

Amid public skepticism, Hoschton approves O-R district boundariesBY

The Hoschton City Council on Monday formally approved adding the boundaries of a new downtown district to the city’s comprehensive land use plan.

The Office-Residential (O-R) zoning district will denote an area of the city in which planners prefer to see buildings used as homes or professional offices, instead of commercial businesses. The district will be bound by West Jefferson Street on the north, Broad Street on the south, New Street on the east and a line from the intersection of Jefferson Avenue/West Jefferson street to Cabin Drive on the west.

Though approval of the district does not automatically rezone the property within, it clarifies an intention in the city to deny commercial rezonings and approve O-R rezonings of those properties in the future. Though the city council could decide to rezone the entire district, members on Monday said they were merely setting a boundary, with no guarantees of rezoning every piece of land.

“What I see happening is we’re approving the amendment to the long-term land use plan, but we’re not really rezoning any land,” city planning director Wistar Harmon told the audience. “We’re putting in place that mechanism.”Harmon also told the audience the amendment would give prospective property buyers an idea of what to expect when they look at parcels in the area.

“This is a goal to shoot for,” he said.Hoschton resident Ken Gary, who owns a contracting business on First Street, and whose property is zoned commercial, told officials he viewed establishing the boundary as the first step in rezoning his land, an action he vehemently opposes.

“You’re doing more than setting the boundary,” he told the council. “You’re setting the boundary and you’re including the opportunity for council to change my zoning at any time.”

Gary equated the rezoning with a seizure of his land and told the council that other property owners on his street agree. “I would see any rezoning to O-R as a taking of my property...I haven’t seen the first owner of any property that wants their property devalued by going to O-R.”Hoschton city attorney Thomas Mitchell told Gary the city had the right to rezone property even without establishing the boundary. When asked by Gary’s son, Kelly, if establishing the boundary would make it more likely for the properties to be rezoned as O-R, Mitchell said it would not. Kelly Gary said Harmon’s earlier statement about establishing a “mechanism” contradicted Mitchell’s statement.

By: STEVEN BEARDSLEY

Braselton files lawsuit against Hoschton

Argues new development infringes upon town’s rights to provide sewer, water service.

Braselton is taking its neighboring city, Hoschton, to court over which municipality will provide water and sewer service to a new, large-scale subdivision.

On Thursday, the Braselton Town Council met behind closed doors for 30 minutes to discuss “pending or potential litigation.” The council later voted to file suit against the City of Hoschton, which was done on Monday.

The suit contends that when the Hoschton City Council recently approved an annexation and rezoning request for a proposed 302-lot subdivision on Maddox Road and Ga. Hwy. 124, the city violated state law. That law — House Bill 489, also known as the shared services delivery agreement — outlines which governments can provide which services, such as water and sewer services, without duplicating services. Braselton contends in the lawsuit that when the Hoschton City Council voted 3-2 last week to approve Hampton Homes’ request for the Maddox Road property, the city violated state law. Braselton officials say the property is located in the town’s water and sewer service area. The town will “aggressively defend its right to serve its territory,” according to the lawsuit.

“There will be irrevocable harm to the Town of Braselton and area residents if any action is taken in furtherance of Hoschton servicing the subject area with water and wastewater,” the suit states. At last week’s Hoschton City Council meeting, it was mentioned that approving the Hampton Homes proposal could bring an estimated $2.2 million in revenue to Hoschton in water and sewer tap fees. Hoschton has state loans totaling $5.6 million to improve the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

Braselton officials are asking the Jackson County Superior Court to place a temporary and permanent ban on Hoschton from issuing any permits for the property and prohibit providing, installing or planning for water and sewer service to the site.

Hoschton mayor Bill Copenhaver said Tuesday that he had not seen the lawsuit and didn’t want to comment about it

SOURCE: Kerri Testament from MainStreetNews.com

Little Mulberry Park Phase II Now Open!

Little Mulberry Park is a bit of a misnomer. As the second largest park in Gwnnett at 890 Acres, it's more of a monster of a park than many others that would even compare. For the longest time the entrance on Fence road has allowed many of us our own private park. Now with this phase opening we are having to share it with the rest of the world.

Phase two opens up a 2.2 mile trek around the lake itself. It's a mostly shaded walk and has all if not more charm than the older trails. What's spectacular about this addition is the ability to fish off part of the trail in the lake. There's something to offer everyone here, and plans are in the future for playgrounds and areas for seating and recreation.

Whether you're in Hamilton Mill, Trilogy Park, Apalachee Farms or even Reunion this makes an excellent park to have a picnic or a good walk. All of the aforementioned neighborhoods have oustanding amenities but sometimes it's just good to get out!

The official release is here:

Acres: 890Phase 1 of Little Mulberry Park encompasses 485 acres of the 890-acre park, and features five miles of trails including two one-mile paved multi-purpose trails, a handicap-accessible trail around a pond, and more than two miles of woodland foot trails. Other amenities include a large rustic picnic pavilion, two smaller picnic pavilions, restrooms, a playground, and an observation terrace at the peak of the West Meadow that is one of the highest elevations in Gwinnett County. Phase II (open September 15, 2006) includes the 200-acre Karina Miller Nature Preserve, additional trails including those designed for equestrian use, a connector trail to the rest of the park on the Fence Road side, a lake with several fishing piers, and a second entrance on Hog Mountain Road. An addtional parking lot, for equestrian use only, is located on the side of the park that faces Mineral Springs Road. Little Mulberry Park is the second largest park owned by Gwinnett County.

SOURCE: Gwinnett County Website