Many community members turned out to comment and share from the heart what South Oconee and their farms and land mean to them. The Commissioners unanimously voted to approve their resolutions drafted to send to Georgia Department of Transportation. Several of these resolutions request solutions within the city limits and among those, fixes we as a community have asked for, for many years.
Read up on the resolutions and view the public comments here at Lee Becker's Oconee Observations.
https://www.oconeecountyobservations.org/2026/05/oconee-county-commission-votes-to-send.html?m=1
Based on data gathered by the Georgia Department of Transportation as part of its Traffic Monitoring Program, the volume of traffic flowing through downtown Watkinsville on Main Street decreased from 2019 through 2024, the most recent year for which counts are available.
https://www.oconeecountyobservations.org/2026/05/georgia-transportation-department-data.html#more
Several affected home and landowners attended the Oconee County Commissioners meeting on April 28th, 2026. We successfully petitioned the commissioners to add discussion to their agenda for the next meeting on May 5th, 2026 at 6pm EST at the Oconee County Administration building. Read all about it here with Lee Becker's Oconee Observations.
https://www.oconeecountyobservations.org/2026/04/oconee-county-commissioners-put.html
On the ground at the Power Line auction with Randy Wilkes as host. We were able to discuss the situation and preservation with locals and out of towners.
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