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A representative section of the Toccoa Historic District, Friday morning, showing a range of currently-permitted vinyl-siding color values. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

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Toccoa’s Proposed Vinyl-Siding-Color-Restriction Amendment Is The Most Substantively Contested Zoning Action Stephens County Has Seen In Eleven Years

The Toccoa Planning Commission’s next regular meeting will receive twenty-one minutes of public comment on the question, drawn from a single 1,400-word memorandum circulated last week to the city’s Historic District homeowners. The amendment’s proponents and its opponents agree on the importance of the matter.

By Margaret Holcomb · April 11, 2026 · 5 min read

The rerouted approach trail at Toccoa Falls, photographed Wednesday morning. The new trail segment is marked with fresh gravel and wooden post markers. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

Toccoa Falls College Reroutes Waterfall Approach Trail Around A Single Patch Of Poison Ivy That Predates The 1977 Dam Failure

Toccoa Falls College has completed a 140-yard rerouting of the public trail leading to Toccoa Falls, following a campus environmental review that concluded the existing trail passed too close to a patch of Toxicodendron radicans — poison ivy — that the college's botany department has documented in place at the same location since at least 1974, predating the dam failure that in November 1977 altered the falls and its surrounding landscape.

By Margaret Holcomb · Mar 11, 2026 · 5 min