An initial look at the Cobb zoning calendar for February shows a significant revision to a proposed senior living development on Holly Springs Road that was held by county commissioners in December.
Loyd Development Services had sought zoning for a 16-unit single family subdivision for seniors 55 and older on 4.3 acres near the Davis Road roundabout, but nearby residents complained about traffic and density concerns.
Commissioner JoAnn Birrell asked the applicant to consider an R-15 residential zoning instead of RSL (residential senior living) to get under the Cobb zoning staff’s recommendation of 2.5 units an acre.
A stipulation letter filed with Cobb zoning office on Jan. 22 does more than that in reducing the number of units from 16 to 10.
Those 10 units would come to 2.32 units an acre, and Loyd has revised the application to seek R-15 rezoning.
Garvis Sams, an attorney for Loyd, indicated in his letter the developer is continuing to meet with residents in adjoining neighborhoods.
Part of the new site plan is a 20-foot buffer between the Loyd development and homes on Intrepid Close, an adjacent street.
Here’s the full letter, with additional stipulations and the revised site plan.
The Cobb Planning Commission meets next Tuesday, but this case doesn’t have to go back before that board and will be heard by Cobb commissioners on Feb. 19.
Here’s Tuesday’s full agenda. Individual case files can be retrieved at the Cobb zoning office website. (The county website is being overhauled and for now this is how zoning cases are being organized.)
A couple of East Cobb cases to note: The zoning staff is recommending denial of an application by Mohammed Vasigh to rezone 3.4 acres on Paper Mill Road at Gateside Place from low-density residential to R-15. Currently, one home is located there, and the applicant wants to build a 7-home subdivision.
There is R-15 zoning in the Gateside neighborhood, but the land up for consideration is in the low-density category on the Cobb future land use map. Vasigh also has hired Sams in a case that has been continued.
Something from the December zoning hearing that also was delayed is a proposed sports stadium at the Post Oak Tritt Road campus of Mt. Bethel Christian Academy that has drawn community opposition.
There’s nothing new in the case files on that and we’ll update that story when we get more. The Mt. Bethel proposal also will be heard on Feb. 19 since it’s in the “Other Business” category that doesn’t go before the planning board.
The Planning Commission meeting starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 2nd floor meeting room of the Cobb government building at 100 Cherokee St. near the Marietta Square.
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