After being delayed from consideration last month, a proposal to redevelop the former Mountain View Elementary School site into a mixed commercial complex will be heard Tuesday by the Cobb Planning Commission.
The meeting begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor meeting room of the Cobb BOC Building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta. The meeting can be seen live on CobbTV (Comcast Cable Channel 23) or live-streamed on the Cobb government website (link here).
The zoning application Z-053-2017 (link to packet item here) is being submitted by Brooks Chadwick Capital, LLC, which is proposing to convert the 13.8-acre site on Sandy Plains Road near Shallowford Road from residential (R-20) to CRC (community retail center). Brooks Chadwick and Jeff Fuqua, a private developer, are planning a facility that would include retail shops, banks, restaurants and possibly a supermarket.
Their plans call for 103,000 square feet of developable commercial space and around 600 parking lots.
The reason the land is zoned residential is because that’s the zoning category for most school properties. The sale of the land to the developers by the Cobb County School District is contingent upon rezoning.
In the zoning application, Brooks Chadwick indicated the proposed commercial complex would have daily opening hours as follows:
- 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., for the restaurants;
- 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. for the grocery store;
- 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. for retail.
The Cobb zoning staff is recommending approval, with the following conditions:
- a deceleration lane for each entrance on Sandy Plains Road;
- installing a flashing yellow arrow for left turn movements at the existing signal;
- developer contribute 100 percent of the cost for traffic signal modifications;
- keeping inter-parcel access between the development and Mountain View Community Center.
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Another major rezoning application in East Cobb is being delayed again. That’s an application by SSP Blue Ridge, LLC, which wants to rezone 21 acres at the northwest intersection of Terrell Mill Road at Powers Ferry Road for a commercial and residential development anchored by a Kroger superstore (agenda packet here).
First submitted in July, Z-012-2017 is being continued by Cobb zoning staff until November (previous East Cobb News story here).
Here’s the full agenda packet for Tuesday’s meeting. The Cobb Board of Commissioners zoning hearing is Oct. 17.
