Prominent developer planning subdivision on Shallowford Road

*Single-family homes on half-acre lots are being planned by Brooks Chadwick. For a larger view, **click here**.*

A noted East Cobb development firm will soon submit plans to Cobb officials for a single-family subdivision on Shallowford Road near Blackwell Road.

Brooks Chadwick is proposing to build 29 homes on nearly 18 acres of the Powers property, which includes a 13-acre lake.

But the developer isn’t seeking a change from the present R-20 zoning, so there won’t be any public meetings.

Todd Thrasher, a managing partner at Brooks Chadwick Capital LLC, told East Cobb News that although there’s a denser R-15 neighborhood nearby, “we feel like our future community will be prettier, and allow for a better development as an R-20 community than if we were to rezone and cramming for density on our site.”

The issue of density has come up about the project, and Thrasher said “I wanted the community to know that we’re not putting up apartments.”

Density has become a hot topic in recent months in an area of Northeast Cobb that’s been undergoing substantial development.

Cobb commissioners last fall approved a 92-home subdivision on Ebenezer Road despite objections from nearby residents over density and stormwater issues, but the developer, Pulte Homes, later pulled out of the project.

The forthcoming redevelopment of a corner of the Johnson Ferry-Shallowford intersection for East Cobb Church and housing is still in plan review with the county, with the density of residential units still at issue.

Also last year, commissioners approved the redevelopment of the Sprayberry Corners Shopping Center that includes senior apartments. A plan to include market-rate apartments was scotched by the developer, Atlantic Realty, after commissioner JoAnn Birrell opposed them.

The Powers property is is in an area that is strictly single-family residential.

The homes being planned by Brooks Chadwick in its 23rd residential development in East Cobb would start at around 4,000 square feet, with prices starting around $1 million.

Thrasher said they’re just inside the Lassiter High School attendance zone and will have one access point, on Shallowford Road.

“A lot of our properties have been in the Lassiter area,” he added, including an 81-home subdivision on either side of Wesley Chapel Road near Garrison Mill Elementary School that was rezoned in 2020.

Brooks Chadwick sold off those 49 acres to other developers and Thrasher said his firm is likely to follow suit with the Shallowford Road property.

“We’ll buy the land, put the street in” as well as other basic infrastructure before selling off to another homebuilder, Thrasher said.

The Powers property includes 42 acres, and he said that land along the north side, bordered by Eula Drive, is being sold to another builder for nine residential lots.