For the third time, the Sprayberry Crossing rezoning request is being delayed.
Cobb Zoning Staff is continuing the case, which was to have gone before the Cobb Planning Commission on Tuesday, to Dec. 1.
When the case was delayed last month, the reason cited was that a new site plan was in the works. The Sprayberry Crossing project would include 61,500 square feet of office and retail space (30,000 for a major grocer), 178 apartments, 122 senior-living apartments and 50 townhomes on more than 17 acres.
There are no changes shown in a preliminary agenda item or in any case folders with the Cobb Zoning Office. The continuance is being made at the request of the developer, Atlantic Realty Acquisitions Inc., as those proposed revisions are continuing.
Shane Spink of Sprayberry Crossing Action, a group of residents who’ve been pushing for redevelopment of the blighted shopping center, said “we have not had any conversations or heard from for the developer for many months so we are not privy to what those revisions may be or any other reason for the delays.”
Atlantic Realty is seeking a rezoning category called redevelopment overlay district (ROD), for the first time since it became a category in 2006.
The ROD use allows for redevelopment of blighted properties, and specified that any development would not set a precedent for the surrounding area.
But there’s been some opposition to apartments and some have questioned whether they’re allowed in the ROD category, citing stipulations approved by the Cobb Board of Commissioners for that specific property in 2006.
The December zoning meetings will be the last until February 2021, since zoning cases are not heard in Cobb County in the month of January.
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Maybe you forgot but the ROD has stipulations many of which the developer does not meet. Most of us would prefer a small tokyo store over high rise low income apartments lining East Cobb.