A townhome developer who wants to build a dense project on undeveloped land on Canton Road has asked for a delay in having its rezoning case heard until December.
Garvis Sams, the attorney for Smith Douglas Homes, notified the Cobb Zoning Office on Oct. 25 that his client was seeking a continuance.
The Smith Douglas proposal was for 61 attached units on 6.6 acres at Canton Road and Kensington Drive. It was to have been heard Tuesday by the Cobb Planning Commission, but has been continued to Dec. 3, according to the meeting agenda (view it here).
The Cobb zoning staff had recommended denial of the proposal (read it here), which would convert land zoned for office and industrial (it’s located across Canton Road from retail and commercial properties) to RM-12, a dense multi-family residential category.
Surrounding land is zoned RA-6, for lower-density homes, and in his letter, Sams indicated Smith Douglas Homes would be reducing the density of the proposal, likely for detached homes (read the letter here).
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I think this is sad that a proposal to build multi-family dense housing would be turned down. Wake up East Cobb. Affordable housing is a crisis impacting all of us. Families need to have access to our schools and amenities and not everyone can afford the $800K or higher single family home residence. By not approving this, you are keeping commute times long for people, contributing to global warming by having more cars on the road, and you are increasing the housing burden on people who would otherwise be able to live in this area if this proposal would go thru. It is classic NIMBY-ism (not in my backyard) and we simply need to part of the solution and not the problem.