Residents of

the Rico community will soon have a juvenile home in their community.

Last week,

the Fulton County Commission approved the center despite objections from

neighbors in the area.

The center

will be on a six-acre tract on Rico Road and house six girls, ages 11

to 17.

Commissioner

Bill Edwards voted against the center.

The center

was the source of heated debate earlier this summer when neighbors turned

out in force to state their opposition to the home.

Many of the

neighbors are concerned about security at the facility. Proponents claim

the girls would be under 24-hour security.

The home is

the first in South Fulton County and organizers of the home maintain that

residents of the home will be runaways and that nobody at the home will

have a criminal record.

Organizers

of the home said the land was donated to the Fulton County Juvenile Justice

Fund to be used as a youth home.

The commissioners

approved the use for the home, but said if the center ever abandons the

home, the use will revert to residential.

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