Affordability Drives Commission Split on Plan for Eastside Housing

A discussion about a large housing development on the Eastside at an Athens-Clarke County Commission meeting last week brought up a familiar topic—affordable housing. The second phase of the Lakeshore development off Barnett Shoals Road would include up to nearly 800 housing units, a mix of apartments, duplexes, townhouses and single-family homes of varying sizes close to the North Oconee River Greenway and a new library soon to be built near Carriage Court. But it will be a market rate development, which did not sit well with some commissioners. Eastside representative Carol Myers, who supports the project, said that the developer declined…