Beer Tasting and Roommates on Agenda

Building before you have permission, and the number of people living at your house.

Both of those issues will come before the Tuesday night. The county is looking at amending its code, something done periodically throughout the year.

Another such amendment would involve beer tasting. Businesses that host wine tastings could also have craft beer tastings. Craft is beer brewed by independent brewers with an annual production that doesn’t exceed 6 million barrels.

But be careful.

“Right now, there’s nowhere you are allowed to have beer tastings,” Cobb Community Development Director Rob Hosack told the Marietta Daily Journal.

“We wouldn’t be comfortable with saying, ‘You can do beer tastings,' and say, ‘What the hell, you can have Budweiser.’ Because every Tom, Dick and Harry would have Budweiser tastings.”

Another code amendment looks at who is allowed to live in a residence. The county intended for more than two unrelated people to live together, Hosack said. The code says a family plus two more unrelated people can live together.

The amendment clarifies the wording.

On another issue, the county is looking at new guidelines to explain development rules around the county’s airport.

Hosack said the rules, crafted by the airport manager and the airport’s advisory board, would prevent numerous buildings from locating near each other. This would cut down on the fallout if there was a plane to crash near the site.

Another proposed change would implement fines of up to $1,000 for developers who start construction before getting a permit, and those who build bigger than originally approved.

“It will affect a couple of bad apples that, as opposed to asking permission, they seek forgiveness,” Hosack told the MDJ.