A mixed-use project that would turn an older single-family neighborhood into apartments, senior living and restaurant space at the intersection of the South Marietta Loop and Powers Ferry Road is being delayed again.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the Marietta Planning Commission agreed to table the proposal by Nexus Gardens, after the developer’s attorney added new stipulations and other changes the day before.
We first reported in November about Nexus Gardens, which would occupy 17.14 acres that also includes undeveloped land that fronts Interstate 75 at the South Marietta Loop exit.
The initial filing has since been revised (you can read it here) and here are the revised stipulations.
The assemblage includes 17 homes on Meadowbrook Drive and one on Virginia Place that are within the city limits.
Nexus Gardens would include two five-story apartment buildings totalling 280 units served by a three-story parking deck, a five-story senior-living building with 160 units and 39 townhomes.
A commercial building at the center of the project would have a restaurant with outdoor dining. An “alternate” three-story building would contain more restaurant and retail space, event space and a coffee shop. Two smaller retail buildings would line Powers Ferry at Meadowbrook Drive, the lone access point for the development.
The proposal also calls for a variety of amenities in and around the residential buildings as well as a community walking trail, courtyard areas, “gardenesque” landscaping, a dog park and a reflecting pond with water jets.
But plenty of community opposition has mounted since then, including from a nearby neighborhood that’s in unincorporated Cobb. They’ve launched a website, Save Our Marietta.
Among their objections is that Nexus Gardens would have only one access point—on Meadowbrook Lane, which is in unincorporated Cobb.
The Nexus Gardens developers recently commissioned a traffic study (that you can read here) and also submitted into the case filings.
The Save Our Marietta group is claiming the development would bring an additional 800 trips a day through that and other residential streets and is urging the county to ask that the traffic study be reviewed by Cobb and state DOT.
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