Cobb approves rezoning for subdivision on Childers Road

Childers Road rezoning

A 2.24-acre infill lot on Childers Road that’s the site of an older ranch home will soon contain five single-family homes.

The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved by a unanimous 5-0 vote a delayed request by Galaxy Childers Land to redevelop the property at a higher density level for single-family use (revised site plan here).

Childers Road is located off Shallowford Road, near the Johnson Ferry Road intersection in northeast Cobb.

The request had been continued since December after some neighborhood opposition surfaced over density and stormwater issues.

Harry Joseph, the Galaxy Childers Land applicant, said the five homes are necessary to make the project feasible.

He said the R-15 category he was seeking (from R-30) would come close to the density of the nearby Coventry Green subdivision and is the same as that and other neighborhoods.

Among the stipulations presented by commissioner Jerica Richardson require the developer to maintain what would be a private road in the subdivision.

Other stipulations cover stormwater detention, tree replacement, landscape buffers and the creation of a homeowners association.

This was one of the few zoning cases in East Cobb that came before commissioners Tuesday.

The county continued the “JOSH” redevelopment plans for a church, townhomes and retail until April. Earlier this month, the Cobb Planning Commission voted to continue the Sprayberry Crossing rezoning case, also to April.

Both have been continued several times already. In moving to table Sprayberry Crossing, new planning commission member Deborah Dance said it was with the understanding this would be the final delay.