Stockbridge elected officials will get a raise in a little over a year.

The City Council voted Nov. 14 to increase the mayor’s annual compensation from $14,000 to $22,000 and raise the council members’ compensation from $12,000 to $20,000. The increases do not take effect until January 1, 2024. 

In other business, the council tabled until early 2023 an annexation and rezoning request for a 20-acre site on the west side of Hwy. 42 North, across from Summit View Drive and north of the Campground Road extension. The land is currently zoned in unincorporated Henry County for mixed use and the applicant wants to combine it with an adjacent 22-acre parcel for an age-restricted residential development.

The rezoning request involves the latter parcel, where the applicant seeks a planned unit development zoning. A request to amend the comprehensive plan is also in the mix. All of these requests are scheduled to be heard January 9.

A proposal for an industrial development in downtown Stockbridge was rejected by the council, which voted to deny two requests related to the same project. A rezoning from Suburban Residential to Heavy Industrial was requested for a site consisting of about two acres at 443 Martin Luther King Sr. Heritage Trail, and an amendment to the comprehensive plan was also requested for the site. The votes on both items were unanimous.

The council approved a zoning modification request for a 16-acre site with frontages on Brush Creek Court and Shields Road to allow for a proposed townhouse development. A number of conditions were attached to that decision.

The council voted to accept three separate grants related to the city’s police department: a $17,495 law enforcement training grant; a $175,000 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act grant; and a $22,400 award designated as a reimbursement for half the cost of the department’s purchase of 56 bulletproof vests.