East Cobb Restaurant Row, Wigley Road zoning cases up for action Tuesday

Just a quick final glance at items we’ve tracked previously that are on Tuesday’s Cobb Board of Commissioners zoning hearing (agenda summary here), which includes the East Cobb Restaurant Row and Wigley Road applications, with information updated as of Friday:

Here’s the agenda item packet for the Restaurant Row application on Powers Ferry Road, which got a 4-1 vote to recommend approval from the Cobb Planning Commission but still has some vocal opposition.

Here is additional correspondence posted Friday, including a revised stipulation letter from Garvis Sams, attorney for Powers Ferry Investors LLC, the applicant, on Thursday, and a letter from Sheldon Schlegman, an architect with a practice nearby on Windy Ridge Parkway and a resident of the adjacent Horizons condominium building and who is against the application as presented.

Also in the Restaurant Row correspondence file are more traffic concerns about development in the Powers Ferry corridor and addressed to Cobb DOT by Patricia Zerman. She’s the president of the Salem Ridge HOA, which opposed the MarketPlace Terrell Mill project, and that county officials admitted would create more traffic problems in a clogged area:

“I am curious as to how the Cobb DOT plans on addressing the appalling outrageous increase in congestion, not withstanding the [MarketPlace] Development.”

Another Powers Ferry Road case, in fact just across the street from the Restaurant Row tract, also is on the docket. Here are the file details for the Chance Powers Ferry application to tear down the old Powers Ferry Woods office park for a mixed-use project on less than four acres, with 300 multi-family housing units and office space. The planning board also recommended that delayed request for approval.

Here is the agenda item packet for the Wigley Road application that was whittled down to 91 single-family homes when the planning board voted 4-1 to recommend approval.

A few East Cobb-area cases that won’t be heard Tuesday, after being continued by Cobb zoning staff to September:

• A long-delayed application for a regional retail commercial project on Terrell Mill Road near Water Place;
• A residential senior living proposal for 178 units at Bells Ferry Road, North Booth Road and I-575.

The Cobb BOC zoning hearing starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 2nd floor boardroom of the Cobb government building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta.