Update

On Tuesday, October 7, 2025, the Mayor and Commission approved a Commission-defined option to acquire 4730 Old Lexington Road for the Fire Station #5 project with instructions to:

• minimize the footprint of the facility
• fully pursue ACC lighting ordinances, including full-cutoff and fully shielded fixtures
• uses planted buffers, berms, or other tactics to minimize the visual impact of the project from neighboring properties
• ensure that fuel and material storage on-site is managed to eliminate impacts to neighboring residents, agriculture, and wildlife; and
• waive the sidewalk installation requirement along Old Lexington Road

General Information & Timeline

The current Fire Station #5 is located at the corner of Whit Davis Road and Cedar Shoals Drive and was built in 1974. 

Revised site selection criteria were approved by the Mayor & Commission on May 7, 2024. These revised criteria were used to evaluate properties within the search area for the new Fire Station #5. Out of 113 properties in the search area, only nine properties were identified that met all of the revised site selection criteria. 

Two drop-in public meetings were held for residents to provide input on revised set of proposed site options at the ACC Tennis Center and the Hilsman Middle School Media Center. Public input was also accepted on the proposed sites through an online survey.

Staff met with the Site Selection Committee on October 22, 2024, to review the public input results. Staff met with Mayor & Commission during an executive session to discuss public input results and recommended Candidate Sites.

Earlier in 2024, residents provided comment on the revised site selection criteria. On November 7, 2023, the Mayor and Commission voted to reject the previous top three candidate sites and to direct staff and the Site Selection Committee to re-evaluate the site selection criteria. Staff presented the revised site selection criteria to the Mayor & Commission at the February 13, 2024, Work Session. The revised criteria were approved on May 7, 2024.

Approximately $6 million has been designated for the Fire Station #5 Replacement through SPLOST funds. This funding includes land acquisition, design, construction, a fueling station, station equipment, and other related costs to meet facility standards for a suburban design comparable to previous fire station design prototypes.