Just a few hours before its meeting Wednesday, the Marietta City Council tabled two rezoning requests in the Powers Ferry Road area that have drawn substantial opposition.
They’re for a mixed-use project and a townhome development by Macauley Investments, and the main property owner for the assemblages is real estate investor Ruben McMullan.
Kevin Moore, an attorney for the applicants, sought a delay before last Tuesday’s Marietta Planning Commission, after filing a revised traffic analysis with the city hours before.
But the planning board voted against tabling both, then voted to recommend denial of the requests in 7-0 votes in both cases.
Moore said he would seek another delay before Wednesday’s meeting, and the agenda was revised late in the afternoon to reflect that both requests were being tabled to the council’s April 14.
Residential opponents in both the city and unincorporated Cobb said the proposed developments are too intense and would have singular access via narrow streets in their neighborhoods.
Nexus Gardens would have apartments, senior living and restaurants on nearly 17 acres, mostly undeveloped and facing Interstate 75. Some of those parcels include 19 single-family homes.
The density of the project calls for two five-story apartment buildings totalling 280 units served by a three-story parking deck, a five-story senior-living building with 160 units, 39 townhomes and restaurants and retail space.
Laurel Park, with 204 townhomes, would be accessible via four residential streets in Cloverdale Heights, which residents said would be a traffic nightmare in their community.
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I am against the projects as they now stand. But I am not in tune with posts by Mr Wright about the developers. They are decent people doing their job. Hopefully he does not get sued for slander.
I spoke in opposition of these rezonings both tonight before City Council, and last week at the Planning Commission Zoning board meeting. I will continue to speak against the projects.