Mt. Bethel Christian Academy athletic facilities

In December the Cobb Board of Commissioners voted to hold a request by Mt. Bethel Christian Academy to change the site plan for its high school campus on Post Oak Tritt Road.

The private school, associated with Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church, was to have come back in February with revisions for its plans to upgrade athletic facilities.

But Kevin Moore, Mt. Bethel’s attorney, has requested a continuance to March. In a letter sent Tuesday to the Cobb Zoning Office, Moore said his clients need an additional month to continue working on site plan changes “in response to comments from the community.”

Nearby residents and the East Cobb Civic Association have expressed opposition to the proposed changes that would relocate a field house and add add 39 parking spaces for a total of 121.

They complained that the process is rushed, and that the athletic facilities would be placed too close to their property.

Mt. Bethel’s high school campus is located on 33.4 acres on Post Oak Tritt, near the intersection of Holly Springs Road, while the K-8 students attend classes on the main Mt. Bethel campus on Lower Roswell Road.

The full agenda for Tuesday’s hearing can be found here; it will take place at 9 a.m. in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta).

A link to the summary agenda can be found here.

The meeting is taking place in-person but there is an option to participate virtually. More details can be found here; and you can sign up to speak by clicking here.

The hearing also will be live-streamed on the county’s website, cable TV channel (Channel 24 on Comcast) and Youtube page. Visit cobbcounty.org/CobbTV for other streaming options.

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Mt. Bethel Christian Academy will be asking Cobb commissioners next week to amend the site plan for its high school campus on Post Oak Tritt Road to relocate an approved athletic field house and to accommodate more parking space.

The private school run by Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church has an “Other Business” item on the commission’s zoning hearing agenda that requests moving a planned field house from the north to the south end of campus.

The agenda item (you can read it here), the last to be heard on Tuesday, also requests relocating 82 parking spaces and creating 39 more parking spaces for a total of 121.

 Mt. Bethel Christian Academy was granted a special-land use plan permit in 2013 from commissioners in order to open its high school at 2509 Post Oak Tritt Road, near the intersection of Holly Springs Road.

Mt. Bethel operates grades 9-12 on what it calls its Upper Campus (with K-8 classes on the Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church grounds on Lower Roswell Road).

The original approval of the Upper Campus special-land use permit included a site plan for the athletic facilities on the northern side of the property, but any changes to the site plan or stipulations must come back before commissioners.

The new site plan modifications are needed, the agenda item states, after engineering work was done on the site and “to best utilize the Property now and in future years.”

Mt. Bethel Christian Academy had proposed building a sports stadium on the North campus in 2019 but withdrew the application after community opposition surfaced.

The southern end of the campus is located closer to Post Oak Tritt Road and away from subdivisions to the north of the property.

The zoning hearing starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta).

A summary agenda, including consent items, can be found here; a thumbnail agenda of cases can be found here; and the full agenda can be found here.

The hearing also will be live-streamed on the county’s website, cable TV channel (Channel 24 on Comcast) and Youtube page. Visit cobbcounty.org/CobbTV for other streaming options.

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• Cobb commission chairwoman, citizens wrangle over public comments
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• Cobb commissioners approve Sprayberry Crossing rezoning

 

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