The Glynn County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 2 approved abandoning a 10‑foot‑wide southwest portion of an unimproved alley adjacent to 4311 Ninth Street, as requested in application AB‑25‑8. The motion, as amended to limit abandonment to the southwest segment, was made from the dais and approved by the board.

County engineer Jason Hartman, Glynn County engineering director and county engineer, told commissioners the application had been deferred from Aug. 21, 2025, and that the southwest portion was the only area the applicant now wished to abandon. "This is for abandonment 25Dash84311NinthStreet. This was previously deferred from the 08/21/2025 meeting to today," Hartman said, and he displayed photos and a plat highlighting the red‑outlined southwest area proposed for abandonment.

The staff presentation said the southeast alley has been used by the public while the southwest alley showed no evidence of public use. Hartman said utility comments applied only to the southeast portion and therefore were not at issue for the southwest abandonment.

The applicant, Steve D'Amico, confirmed the fences shown in staff photos were on adjacent properties, not on the applicant's parcel. Residents who had submitted opposition — Janine Brownie of 4301 Ninth Street and Terry Peaslee of 1929 Bruce Drive — were identified by staff as living adjacent to the southeast portion that is not being abandoned.

Commissioners questioned whether adjacent fences blocked county access and whether other property owners who had seemingly placed fences over the alley should file their own abandonment requests. Hartman told the board the county owns the alley and, if necessary, "you could tear that portion of the fence down" to access county property. A commissioner suggested referring code enforcement to investigate apparent fencing over county land.

A motion to approve the application as amended — "to permit only the southwest portion or the southwest alley, 10 foot wide portion adjacent to the applicant's parcel at 4311 Ninth Street be abandoned" — passed on a vote after a second, with the board clarifying the southeast alley would not be affected.

Discussion: staff described potential public benefits in continued public use of the southeast alley for access and utilities; staff also said abandonment would return the abandoned portion to the tax digest. No ordinance or statutory citation was offered in the hearing record.

Outcome: The board approved the abandonment as amended, limiting the action to the southwest, 10‑foot portion adjacent to 4311 Ninth Street. The southeast alleyway remains in county ownership and available for public access and utilities.

The record shows commissioners asked staff to confirm fence locations and to consider code‑enforcement follow up to restore public access where private fences block alley rights-of-way.