602 N Franklin St · Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia
A 0.55-acre B-2 commercial corner inside the city of Dublin, with two street frontages and every utility a small building needs running past it. If you are a Dublin business paying rent, this is the cheapest corner in town to stop.
Lot lines are approximate, from county parcel data. Not a survey.
On a rural acre, the utilities are the whole problem: a well, a septic field, a power drop, and a permit for each. On this lot the City of Dublin already runs all three services past the property, and the city's own utility maps show where.
Screenshots from the City of Dublin's public utility maps. They show where the mains run. They are not a commitment of service. Tap locations, capacity and fees are yours to confirm with the city.
A corner lot is only worth its corner if you can cut into it. Curb cuts here fall under the City of Dublin's jurisdiction, not the state's, so we wrote to the city and asked before putting this on the market.
“On the curb cuts, we'll be happy to review a site plan with more than one. No guarantee it will be approved but we'll certainly consider it. It falls under our jurisdiction.”
“Being there is less traffic on Moore I feel like Moore would be the best access point, and perhaps one on Franklin as well if two were desired. The intended use will factor into this.”
- Matthew Bradshaw, PE, Engineering Director, City of Dublin, January 21, 2026, on a thread with City Planner Sharon Eveland. Copy available on request.
That is guidance, not a permit: the city was clear that a real answer follows a site plan, and that what you intend to do there factors into it. But you are not starting from zero, and you are not guessing which street to design against.
A flat, wooded, quarter-block corner in a working part of Dublin: retail and service businesses up and down the street, the county seat a few minutes away. It is raw: no structures, no clearing, no site plan.
162 feet on N Franklin Street and 154 feet on E Moore Street. Corner parcels carry the visibility and the access flexibility that interior lots do not, and this one is 0.55 acres, enough for a small building with parking, without paying for land you will never use.
Section 5.9 of the Dublin zoning ordinance. B-2 allows everything permitted in the B-1 central business district, which is where the broad line lives: “any retail, professional, financial or other personal business or service establishment.” On top of that it adds automobile service stations, hotels and motels of at least twenty units, plant nurseries and outdoor flower shops, and mortuaries. It is not an industrial district. We asked the city planner about a parking lot and she answered in writing: parking is allowed, as long as it is road vehicles. Equipment storage is not. Details below. Confirm your intended use with the Dublin city planner before you buy. We would rather you hear that from us.
Elevation runs 207 to 216 feet with an average slope under 9%. Zero percent of the parcel is in a mapped FEMA flood zone and zero percent is mapped wetland. There is nothing on it to demolish and no fill to import.
Noble Land Partners® owns it free and clear by warranty deed recorded December 12, 2025, Laurens County Book 3651 / Page 99. We ran a title search before we bought and it came back clean. No HOA, no covenants running with it that we are aware of, taxes current at $49.26 for 2025.
The 2025 tax bill was under fifty dollars. If your building is two years out, the carrying cost of owning the corner in the meantime is close to nothing, which is not true of the lease you are signing instead.
N Franklin runs through this part of Dublin toward the US-441 corridor and the I-16 connection south. Downtown Dublin, the courthouse and the hospital district are all a few minutes out. Dublin City School District.
B-2 is narrower than it sounds. Dublin writes its districts as closed lists of permitted uses, so a use that is not named is a question rather than a right. Section 5.9 gives B-2 the uses of the B-1 and P districts plus service stations, hotels and motels, plant nurseries and outdoor flower shops, and mortuaries, and the only conditional use it names is an establishment serving alcohol. Several of the uses that draw people to a cheap corner are missing from that list: a contractor's yard, equipment storage, an open-air market. B-1 goes further and excludes warehousing and storage facilities from the wholesale category it does allow. If that is your plan, get the city planner's answer in writing before you buy. Sharon Eveland, City Planner, evelands@dublinga.org, 478-277-5070. If your plan is an office, a clinic, a studio, a shop or a small service business, you are in the middle of what B-2 is for.
Parking: the city's answer, in writing. We asked the city planner about running a parking lot here. Her reply: “While parking is allowed, it has to be road vehicles. Anything that is not a road vehicle is classified as equipment and you couldn’t allow the storage of equipment on the property unless said equipment is for a type of business that would be allowed in a B-2 district.” Her example: a dump truck can be parked there because it is street legal; a backhoe cannot. She added that some council members are sensitive to this because of problems with another business in town, so expect it to be enforced. For a fenced lot she noted you would need a fence permit (and an electrical permit for a powered gate), that Ordinance 25-16 sets buffer, fence and parking lot requirements, and that with an existing curb cut on N Franklin, Engineering would likely allow only one. Anything that is not a road vehicle, such as a storage container, is a question to put to her before you buy.
We have not drawn a site plan. We do not know how many square feet you can actually build on once setbacks are applied, and we have not asked the city to tell us. The parcel is 23,958 square feet; the usable footprint will be less, and by how much depends on a plan nobody has drawn yet. Anyone quoting you a buildable-area number for this lot is estimating.
Everything we checked, who told us, and when. If a line says we haven't done it, we haven't done it.
| Item | What we found | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Warranty deed recorded December 12, 2025, Laurens County Book 3651 / Page 99. A title search was run before acquisition and came back clear. | Clear |
| Ownership | Noble Land Partners® LLC owns it outright. No mortgage or deed of trust of record. Taxes current: 2025 bill $49.26 on a $1,725 assessment. | Free & clear |
| HOA | None. | None |
| City sewer | The city's utility map shows gravity sewer mains along both N Franklin and E Moore, with a manhole at the intersection. No septic system is contemplated here. Tap and fees to be confirmed with the city. | Both frontages |
| City water | Water main runs along N Franklin past the property, with valves clustered at the Franklin/Moore corner. On the E Moore side the main terminates west of the lot, so a service would come off Franklin. Tap and fees to be confirmed. | At Franklin |
| Natural gas | Dublin operates its own gas system and the map shows mains in both streets past the property. | Both frontages |
| Access / curb cuts | City of Dublin Engineering confirmed on January 21, 2026 that curb cuts here are the city's jurisdiction, that they will review a site plan with more than one, and that E Moore is the preferred access point because it carries less traffic, with a second on Franklin possible if wanted. No guarantee without a site plan; intended use factors in. | City guidance |
| Zoning | B-2, Highway-Oriented Business District, City of Dublin, zoning ordinance Sec. 5.9. Permitted uses are those of the B-1 and P districts plus automobile service stations, hotels and motels of twenty units or more, plant nurseries and outdoor flower shops, and mortuaries; the only conditional use listed is an establishment serving alcohol. Broad commercial and service uses under the B-1 line, but not industrial, and B-1 excludes warehousing and storage facilities. City Planner confirmed in writing that parking is allowed for road vehicles only; equipment storage is not (a dump truck yes, a backhoe no). Buyer to confirm any other intended use with the city planner, particularly outdoor storage or outdoor vending as a primary activity. | Verify your use |
| Buildable footprint | Parcel is 23,958 sq ft. We have not had setbacks applied or a site plan drawn, so we are not quoting a usable-area figure. | Not determined |
| Access & frontage | 162 ft on N Franklin Street plus 154 ft on E Moore Street. Both paved public city streets. Not landlocked. | Corner |
| Flood & wetlands | 0% of the parcel in a mapped FEMA flood zone; 0% mapped wetland. | None |
| Topography | Elevation 207–216 ft across the parcel; average slope under 9%. Flat by any practical measure. | Flat |
| Electric | Not confirmed. We have not established the serving provider or the cost of a service drop. Ask before you budget it. | Unconfirmed |
| Survey | Not ordered. Boundaries shown are county parcel data and approximate. | Not ordered |
| Clearing | Not done and not quoted. The lot is wooded. | Buyer |
| Utility taps | No tap fees have been quoted for this parcel. Water, sewer and gas connections are the buyer's to arrange with the City of Dublin. | Buyer |
Buyers
Tick the box and I will call you about this tract. If it is close but not right, say what you are actually after instead: most of what I buy never reaches this page, and it goes to whoever already told me what they wanted.
602 N Franklin St, Dublin, GA 31021 · APN D15F-307 · 32.54596, -82.90666
It is a corner on two public streets. Drive it whenever you like. Open it in Google Maps and go stand on it. If you want the city engineer's email or the utility maps at full size before you make a decision, ask and I'll send them.
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