A proposal by the owner of The Avenue East Cobb to extend opening hours for a fitness center and make monument sign changes won’t be heard by the Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday.
That’s because the case has been withdrawn without prejudice by the Cobb zoning staff, meaning it could be refiled at any time.
No reason was given for the withdrawal noted in Tuesday’s meeting agenda (read it here), but there hasn’t been anything new placed in the filings since September, when the case was initially delayed.
Poag Shopping Centers, LLC, had filed an application for site plan changes that were opposed by the nearby East Hampton neighborhood and the East Cobb Civic Association.
The proposal asked that the barre3 fitness center, which opens at 6 a.m., be allowed to open at 5 a.m. Nearby neighbors were opposed to that and suggested that instead of a larger monument sign (12 feet high by 20 feet wide) at the shopping center entrance, two smaller signs be erected instead.
The ECCA also is opposing a request by Eric and Rita Klein to convert a single-family home on Providence Road, behind the Providence Square shopping center, to community retail commercial for professional offices (case file here).
The home is next to My East Cobb Dentist, owned by the Kleins. In their application, they say their plans are to renovate the home to make it look like their current office building, and add a second story for storage for a total of 6,000 square feet.
The ECCA is recommending a low-rise office category instead, since that’s the zoning for the Merchants Walk Office Park next door, and that CRC “allows for too many intense uses.”
According to Cobb Tax Assessor’s Office records, the home was built in 1949 and purchased by the Kleins in December 2018 from the estate of Franklin Lanier McClure. He was a retired barber who died in July 2018 at the age of 96.
The commissioners’ zoning hearing begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government office building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta.
Get Our Free E-Mail Newsletter!
Every Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest. Click here to sign up, and you’re good to go!
