Sprayberry v. Board of Commissioners of Putnam County,, A22A1329
We must “seek to avoid a construction that makes some language mere surplusage.”13 Here, under the plain meaning of its text, § 66-158 allows a variance for an exceptionally narrow, shallow, or “shape[d]” piece of property that was platted of record at the time that Putnam County adopted Chapter 66 in 2007.14 Because the denial of the variance was based on an error of law, we reverse the superior court’s decision.
