Plans to carve out a 16-home subdivision on a challenging 7.5-acre tract off Kinridge Court in Northeast Cobb are being recommended for denial by the Cobb Zoning Office.
An application submitted by Atlanta-based Green Community Development, LLC is scheduled to be heard Tuesday by the Cobb Planning Commission.
Most of the parcels at 2077 and 2079 Kinridge Court are largely undeveloped on a sloping wooded area, although there is a homesite on the latter.
Green is proposing changing the existing R-20 zoning category, which would permit up to 12 homes, to R-20 OSC.
That stands for Open Space Community, a special “overlay” zoning designation meaning that some of the land would be protected as open space. Green plans to designate 35 percent as “green community space.”
The only point of access would be on Kinridge Court, between two homes in the Sandy Plains Estates subdivision.
In addition to the 16 single-family homes, recreation amenities, and passive amenities are included (you can view the agenda item here and the site plan here).
Green is calling the proposed development Serenesee on Kinridge, with homes at least 3,000 square feet made of four-sided brick, stone and/or hard coat stucco. Parking, according to a stipulation letter, “will have 4 spaces per home on Grasspave directly across the street from homes.”
But in its analysis, Cobb zoning staff said that while the topography of the land allows an OSC designation, the density of the project (2.34 units an acre) is over the OSC limit of 1.75, as well as Sandy Plains Estates, which has a density of 1.49.
Nearby Cambridge Park is zoned R-15 but has a density of 2.21 units an acre, according to the staff analysis.
The zoning staff also cited potential runoff issues, noting the Cobb Stormwater Management comments that “due to the steepness of the topography downstream properties could be adversely affected by this project.”
A number of variances reducing front and side setbacks and reducing the width of the subdivision road present traffic and fire safety concerns, the analysis concluded:
“With the number of variances necessitated by the currently submitted plan, Staff believes that the property can be more suitably developed under its base R-20 zoning or, perhaps, with a more compliant OSC plan that may include less lots.”
In other cases in the East Cobb area, the Planning Commission will hear a request by Parallel Towers III to build a cellular tower at 4648 Canton Road, a convenience store and gas station at 3705 Trickum Road and a personal care home at 1900 Sandy Plains Road.
Zoning staff is recommending approval of all three applications with conditions.
The zoning hearing starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta).
The consent and summary agenda can be found by clicking here; here’s the thumbnail agenda and full packet agenda.
Planning commission recommendations will be considered by the Cobb Board of Commissioners on July 19.
The hearing also will be live-streamed on the county’s website, cable TV channel (Channel 24 on Comcast) and Youtube page. Visit cobbcounty.org/CobbTV for other streaming options.
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