Beck v. Crisp County Zoning Board of Appeals

Blackburn, Judge.

We granted appellants’ application for discretionary appeal to review whether the Crisp County Zoning Board of Appeals (the Zoning Board) violated Georgia’s Open Meetings Act, OCGA § 50-14-1 et seq., when it granted Harold McCay’s petition for a conditional use permit for an airstrip on his 1,200-acre tract of land. Appellants are those landowners who opposed the conditional use permit granted to McCay. The issue before us is whether the Open Meetings Act is violated when the public hearing portion of a meeting is expressly “adjourned” prior to the Zoning Board’s decision and…