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Press file photo Sk828 has been actively raising money for a skatepark since last summer. The organization has raised more the $10,000 but more funding is needed to make the park a reality.

More funding needed for skatepark

Mia Overton
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Representatives from Sk828 came before the Town Council on March 7 to request $35,000 to help pay for concrete and rebar for the skatepark to be built at Sunnyside Park (the Whitmire property).

Press photo/Mia Overton - The Franklin Board of Adjustment denied a variance for this mobile home in the Alpine Cottages neighborhood off Bellview Road. The community’s restricted covenants were amended to allow the mobile home, but that conflicts with the town’s zoning regulations for that area.

Board denies zoning variance request

Mia Overton
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

A Macon County couple bought a doublewide and put it on property they bought last spring only to recently learn that mobile homes are not permitted in the neighborhood under the town’s zoning regul