New Ebenezer Road senior-living complex to have gated entry

Ebenezer Road senior-living complex

A proposed senior-living development at Ebenezer Road and Sandy Plains Road received final approval Tuesday from the Cobb Board of Commissioners.

The major snag—about access to the 9.45-acre tract—was resolved when commissioners voted 4-1 to include a gated entry for what will be a 31-home community.

The application by Traton Homes had been delayed from December after the developer proposed Sandy Plains Road access only, involving U-turns, that prompted objections from commissioners and members of the nearby Sandy Plains Baptist Church.

For Tuesday’s meeting, Traton revised its site plan to provide for access only on Ebenezer Road. The community would be located just below Addison Elementary School.

But Northeast Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell’s motion modified what Traton had proposed—the creation of a left-turn lane into the new development from northbound Ebenezer Road, just above its intersection at Sandy Plains Road (the red star on the right of the map).

Her motion also included right-in, right-out access from southbound Ebenezer to southbound Sandy Plains (red star at the bottom).

“Ebenezer, with school traffic, is really dangerous,” Birrell said. “Without a gate, [Ebenezer-to-Sandy Plains access] is going to be a cut-through.”

That change was acceptable to Traton as well as Cobb DOT, which was concerned about Ebenezer left-turn access so close to the Sandy Plains intersection.

Kevin Moore, an attorney for Traton, said the RSL category—single-family, detached homes for those aged 55 and up—would have less of a traffic impact than the current residential category. The property currently has a vacant home built in 1931.

Commissioner Keli Gambrill voted against the Traton application, which requires Birrell to approve the final site plan.

Another East Cobb zoning case is being delayed until March. An application by Legacy Christian School to operate a preschool and kindergarten at Bethany Presbyterian Church (4644 Sandy Plains Road) still needs some traffic and parking revisions, according to Cobb commissioner Bob Ott.

Legacy Christian currently operates a preschool at the nearby  Woodstock Church Shallowford for 68 students, and wants to move its facility.

The Bethany church previously housed a preschool facility, and there is 5,483 square feet available. But a special land-use permit is needed to add kindergarten. The proposed capacity would be 65 students, with parking for 131 cars.

The Legacy Christian School would operate from 9-1 Monday-Friday.

 

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Sandy Plains U-turn proposal prompts delay in senior project

Sandy Plains U-turn proposal
A revised senior-living proposal would have primary access on Sandy Plains Road (bottom right in the rendering).

Imagine that the primary means of access into your neighborhood is performing a U-turn across two lanes of traffic on Sandy Plains Road, then making a quick right turn onto your residential street just below the intersection of Ebenezer Road.

Some Cobb commissioners were aghast at a revised proposal by Traton Homes that would call such a deft (daring, even) piece of driving at a Tuesday zoning hearing, and that Cobb DOT concurred.

They voted instead to delay the case until their February zoning hearing.

“I have serious concerns about any access from Sandy Plains,” commissioner Bob Ott said. “I don’t know how you allow U-turns there.”

(More details about the proposed changes here)

After getting a favorable recommendation from the Cobb Planning Commission earlier this month for a proposed 31-home senior-living community, Traton attorney Kevin Moore presented a revised site plan that provided main access along Sandy Plains.

Under the revision, residents heading southbound on Sandy Plains would make a simple right turn into the community from a deceleration lane.

But residents traveling northbound on Sandy Plains would have complete a U-turn that Cobb DOT transportation engineer Amy Diaz said was doable.

“You’re kidding me?” Cobb commission chairman Mike Boyce said. “You’re asking for trouble.”

He said the U-turn “may be difficult, but you know drivers.”

Sandy Plains U-turn proposal
The blue star is the proposed senior-living development, with U-turn access indicated in red at the Sandy Plains-Ebenezer intersection.

The initial application called for sole access on Ebenezer Road, close to the Sandy Plains intersection, which Cobb DOT indicated would be problematic, as did some residents living in the adjacent Kerry Creek subdivision.

Traton’s new submission includes right-in access southbound along Ebenezer into the development, and a right-out exit to turn northbound on Sandy Plains.

Diaz said a senior-living development typically yields less traffic than other residential subdivisions, and there had been “no safety red flags at Sandy Plains at that location” to recommend against a U-turn.

But members of the nearby Sandy Plains Baptist Church, located just below the 10-acre tract sought by Traton, said the new traffic plans would have a detrimental effect.

They’re not against the development and had no problem with Ebenezer Road access, but Sandy Plains Road access would affect more than Sunday worship traffic. The church also has a preschool during weekdays.

“It’s been said that the previous plan was dangerous,” said Edward England, a church deacon. “Sandy Plains Road is much more dangerous than Ebenezer.”

The proposal comes as major road construction along Sandy Plains between Piedmont and Ebenezer roads is due to be completed this month.

“I know DOT said that’s a good alternative,” church leader Walter Stevens said, referring to Sandy Plains access, “but I’m telling you it’s not. I think this is a bad alternative to what was originally proposed.”

Boyce said he thought the U-turn proposal was “trying to make a traffic pattern fit a development. This just doesn’t fit.”

Commissioner JoAnn Birrell, who represents the area, made the motion to hold the application. It won’t be heard until February, since commissioners don’t consider rezoning cases in January.

Moore said “we’ll have to take a look at” whatever would be proposed as a traffic alternative, but he reminded commissioners that other types of residential zoning on that land would result in more vehicles on Sandy Plains.

 

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Ebenezer Road senior living project on planning board agenda

Ebenezer Road senior living

A request for a 33-unit senior living community on Ebenezer Road near Sandy Plains Road is slated to be heard Tuesday by the Cobb Planning Commission.

Traton Homes wants to convert less than 10 acres at 2891 Ebenezer Road that’s currently zoned for single-family residential (R-15 and R-20) for senior residential living (RSL).

(Read the case file here.)

All that’s there now is a house built in 1931, and the land owned by Luther Higgins Jr. is surrounded by the single-family Kerry Creek subdivision. Below the property are two undeveloped tracts of land, totalling 6.67 acres, owned by Sandy Plains Baptist Church.

The current zoning category of the Wiggins land would allow up to 16 units. Traton is proposing to more than double that total under RSL, a density of nearly 3.5 units an acre.

The “non-supportive” RSL community would not include services like transportation, medical or food preparation, as is the case with some “supportive” senior-living facilities.

The Traton Homes proposal calls for units of at least 1,500 square feet, and the developer is asking to reduce the distance between the homes from 15 to 10 feet and remove a landscape buffer of 20 feet along the south property line.

The property has been designated for low-density residential use in the Cobb future master plan. The Cobb zoning staff is recommending approval of the Traton request, without any variances and to maintain the landscaping buffer.

Another high-density residential request in the Northeast Cobb area is on Tuesday’s agenda, after being delayed and substantially revised.

Smith Douglas Homes had proposed building 61 townhomes on 6.6 acres on Canton Road at Kensington Drive. According to a Nov. 19 stipulation letter from its attorney, the developer is now proposing 39 detached single-family homes, or 5.9 units an acre.

You can view the rest of the agenda and read case files by clicking here.

The planning commission meets Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building, 100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta. Its recommendations will be considered by the Cobb Board of Commissioners on Dec. 17.

 

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Lower Roswell rezoning case withdrawn as Marietta deadline passes

Lower Roswell annexation/rezoning

A contentious rezoning application on Lower Roswell Road filed by a prominent Cobb homebuilder appears to be dead for now, as well as annexation into the city of Marietta.

Rusty Roth, the city’s development director, notified residents of the Sewell Manor neighborhood on Wednesday that Traton Homes had had not filed anything new after the Marietta City Council voted in July to give the developer a 90-day “stay.”

That 90-day period ended on Wednesday, and Roth said the request was not included on Thursday’s council agenda.

In his note, Roth wrote that without the applicant “giving written notice to reactivate the stayed motions . . . the actions shall be dismissed without prejudice.”

That means that Traton could refile the request at any time.

In a note to her neighbors, Sewell Manor resident Robin Moody, who led the fight against the rezoning and annexation, thanked community leaders, media outlets, Cobb commissioner Bob Ott and “the City of Marietta for being reasonable.”

The Marietta-based Traton had proposed building 39 townhomes and 13 detached homes on less than eight acres at Lower Roswell Road and the South Marietta Parkway, after asking Marietta to annex the land.

That property includes six parcels that once were part of the Sewell Manor in unincorporated Cobb. Three other parcels that front Lower Roswell Road were annexed into Marietta several years ago.

Residents there said the project would be too dense and would add to existing traffic problems in  their community. In addition, Traton did not submit a traffic plan and included 15 variances in its request.

The density of the project allowed Cobb elected officials to lodge an official objection under a state home rule law, but the county development staff didn’t meet a January deadline for having county commissioners formalize that objection.

Robin Moody, Sewell Manor resident
Sewell Manor resident Robin Moody

The Marietta Planning Commission voted to recommend denial of the rezoning in April, then the council delayed a vote the first time the matter appeared on its agenda.

In June, Ott met with Sewell Manor neighbors at a town hall meeting and scheduled mediation between the city and the county to resolve the dispute.

But the city called off the mediation, and another zoning notice went up in Sewell Manor for the July council meeting.

At that meeting, council member Michelle Cooper-Kelly, who represents that area of the city, stipulated in her motion for a 90-day delay a provision for a withdrawal without prejudice by Traton.

“We do all hope that should this matter be taken up again, that everyone will band together again,” Moody said in her note Thursday. “Please stay positive and let’s say unified!”

She said Sewell Manor residents will have what they call a “Unity of Community” meeting Nov. 1 at the Sewell Mill Library (2051 Lower Roswell Road).

 

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Lower Roswell annexation case back on Marietta council agenda

Lower Roswell annexation case

The green zoning signs fronting the entrance to the Sewell Manor neighborhood have a new date etched in for an annexation and zoning case at Lower Roswell Road and the Loop that residents there have been fighting for months.

After the Marietta City Council twice delayed a vote, and after Cobb commissioners reaffirmed a letter of objection to the annexation, the proposal by Traton Homes to build 52 townhome and single-family units is apparently scheduled to be on the July 10 council agenda.

There’s not an agenda posted yet on the City of Marietta website, and there doesn’t appear to be anything new in the case file. We’ll update with more information.

The city council would act first on annexation before conducting a zoning hearing.

The city and county have been at odds over the case since Sewell Manor residents voiced their objection to the Traton project, on less than eight acres of vacant land.

The county had the right to object to the annexation since the rezoning would come to more than five units an acre, but commissioners didn’t formally ratify their opposition before a January deadline.

The Marietta Planning Commission did hear the case in April and voted to recommend denial of the rezoning.

The Marietta City Council held off on votes in April and May, then asked for mediation, and the county agreed. But commissioner Bob Ott of East Cobb, designated as the county representative, said the city wanted to change the process to something between mediation and formally binding arbitration, and cancelled the talks.

Earlier this month he held a town hall meeting with the Sewell Manor residents.

On June 11 commissioners discussed, but took no action, after Ott briefed them about the dispute.

He admitted that there was nothing the county could do to stop the annexation, but said Marietta Mayor Steve “Thunder” Tumlin had indicated the city would not act on the case as long as the county objected.

Sewell Manor residents have put together a flyer to urge their neighbors and others in nearby communities to turn out for the July 10 Marietta council meeting, which starts at 7 p.m.

What they previously labeled a “Save East Cobb campaign” is now being called “Annexation Without Representation.”

 

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Lower Roswell rezoning-annexation update: Cobb-Marietta mediation hits a snag

Lower Roswell rezoning-annexation

An update to the story we published Thursday about mediation talks between Cobb County and the City of Marietta about a disputed annexation-rezoning case on Lower Roswell Road and the Loop:

That mediation, scheduled for next Wednesday,  has been called off. Also, Cobb commissioner Bob Ott, who was to have represented the county and was scheduled to meet Monday with a small group of nearby residents opposed to the proposal, has opened the meeting to the public in a town hall format.

That word comes from Robin Moody (in photo), a leader of a group of Sewell Manor neighbors who are working to reduce the density and demand other changes from Traton Homes.

The prominent Cobb residential developer wants to build 37 townhomes and 15 single-family homes on 7.48 acres, which the neighbors say is too dense and would add to traffic headaches they already experience.

Some have called it a “Stack-A-Shack” proposal for how close the residences will be built on the property that abuts Sewell Manor.

(Read the revised case file here for Z-2019-04.)

In a message sent Friday to her neighbors and citizens in nearby communities, Moody said the City of Marietta wanted to change mediation from being overseen by retired Cobb Superior Court Judge James Bodiford to going before another, unspecified judge.

Ott declined, since that change would require approval of the other county commissioners, and he is planning to bring the matter up with his colleagues on June 11.

A Georgia local government law called HB 489 (passed in 1997) allows counties to formally object to annexation and rezoning cases in certain high-density conditions, and sets up terms for arbitration or mediation to settle disputes.

Moody noted the time provided for public comment at commissioners’ meetings and added:

“We are grateful that Cobb County will now hear the viewpoints (at least how Ott explains it) that the community has been voicing since January of this year.”

The Sewell Manor residents live in 1950s-built single-family homes with a density of less than two units an acre. Traton’s proposal is 6.95 units an acre, higher than a threshold of four units an acre as specified in HB 489.

Although the Marietta Planning Commission has recommended denial, the Marietta City Council has never voted on the Traton proposal. It has been pulled twice over the last two months.

Ott’s town hall meeting will be 7 p.m. Monday at the Sewell Mill Library (2051 Lower Roswell Road). Moody said citizens from more than a dozen nearby subdivisions have signed petitions opposed to proposed development.

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An East Cobb community organizes to stop ‘Stack-A-Shack’ development

East Cobb community, Sewell Manor
James Rosich, an urban planner by training, calls the Traton Homes proposal a “stack-a-shack” development. (East Cobb News photos by Wendy Parker)

For several months, residents of an older East Cobb community—proud of their long-standing roots, and embracing those who’ve come to live there more recently—have felt increasingly cut off.

Cut off by increasing congestion at a major intersection. Cut off by vacant commercial and residential properties fronting their neighborhood that have become eyesores.

And, most of all, cut off in a matter between Cobb County and the City of Marietta over a rezoning and annexation request they worry may be settled next week without their input.

UPDATE: The mediation has been called off, and Cobb commissioner Bob Ott will hold a town hall meeting on the matter on Monday. Click here to read more.

For residents of Sewell Manor, a proposed development by Traton Homes for townhomes and urban-style single-family homes is more than just incompatible with their homes.

It’s become what some believe could be a troubling bellwether for the kind of high-density development that they moved there to avoid.

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A small-town feel

Sewell Manor is “the closest thing to Mayberry that you can find in Cobb County now,” said Theresa Gernatt, who grew up in Sewell Manor and lives there again, as a caregiver for her mother.

The small brick ranch homes that line Indian Trail and Worthington Drive were built in the late 1950s, as what became known as East Marietta suburbanized.

Most of them are valued at less than $200,000 today, bargain prices in highly affluent East Cobb, where new homes are routinely sold for $700,000 and up.

She said she and her neighbors understand the empty lots next to their neighborhood will be redeveloped, and they’re not opposed.

“Change is good,” Gernatt said Wednesday at a meeting she and her neighbors called at the Sewell Mill Library, just down the street on Lower Roswell, and that drew around 50 people, many from nearby subdivisions.

However, she said, “real progress is not always change,” and especially what one of the most powerful residential developers in Cobb County has in mind for their community.

East Cobb community, Sewell Manor
Sewell Manor residents William Warwick and Lindsay Field Penticuff.

The proposal by Traton would plop 37 townhomes and 15 single-family homes on less than eight acres at the northeast corner of Lower Roswell and the Loop.

The land includes three commercial parcels on Lower Roswell annexed by Marietta, as well as property on which six former homes stood in Sewell Manor.

The residential tracts are in unincorporated Cobb County—which Traton is proposing the city also annex—as is the rest of Sewell Manor.

Traton has come down from its initial proposal of 63 townhomes and one single-family home, dropping the density from around 12 units an acre to 6.95.

That’s still above the threshold of a state law that allows counties to object to annexations when rezonings include density of more than 4 units an acre.

(Read the revised case file here for Z-2019-04.)

City-county conundrum

When Traton submitted its plans earlier this year, Cobb officials did object. However, they didn’t formalize their opposition until it was almost too late.

Earlier this month, as the Marietta City Council was to vote on the Traton request, the county asked for a delay for mediation.

The city agreed, and they’re scheduled to meet next Wednesday with retired Cobb Superior Court Judge James Bodiford.

While the Sewell Manor residents are temporarily relieved, they don’t think their concerns are being taken seriously.

“This is a city creating a problem for us, after we bought into the county to enjoy,” said Robin Moody, a relative Sewell Manor newcomer, who’s lived there 15 years.

She’s urged her neighbors to lobby Bob Ott, their county commissioner (who’s meeting with them on Monday), and to turn out in force for the mediation hearing.

East Cobb community, Sewell Manor
Sewell Manor resident Robin Moody.

Sewell Manor residents are asking Traton to reduce density down to four units an acre, which is still more than twice the density of their neighborhood.

But that’s hardly all of their objections to a proposal they say runs counter to city and county land use plans and basic rezoning standards.

Tration is asking for 15 variances. They include waiving landscape buffers along Lower Roswell and a waiver to build deceleration and acceleration lanes at the Indian Trail access point.

No traffic plan has been submitted by Traton, another requirement.

Some of the townhouses are only 900 square feet, well under the city’s minimum of 1,400 square feet for townhouses. No square footage sizes have been indicated for the single-family homes.

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At the intersection, there’s a massive billboard owned by Ray Boyd, the property owner, that Sewell Manor residents want taken down.

They also want minimum open space to be 25 percent, and a 60 percent maximum for impervious services.

“This is not a good site plan,” said James Rosich, who lives close to nearby Sedalia Park Elementary School. “It’s just not.”

Site plan markup

Rosich, who has an urban planning degree from Georgia Tech and governmental planning experience in Florida and North Carolina, dubbed the Traton plan “Stack-A-Shack.”

It’s lingo in his profession, he says, for high-density development jammed especially closely together. There’s not room for school buses to turn around in the new community, nor for residents to place trash for curbside pickup.

He annotated Traton’s plan to incorporate the community’s requests to get it to something they could accept.

East Cobb community, Sewell Manor
Sewell Manor residents’ objections to and recommended changes for the Traton plan. For larger view click here.

Sewell Manor residents say Marietta City Council member Michelle Cooper-Kelly, who represents the potential annexed land, has told them she’s against the project.

So is the Marietta Planning Commission, which voted in March to recommend denial.

That’s the only vote that’s been taken on the yet-unnamed Traton proposal tabled twice by the council.

Setting a trend?

Ott, who will be the county representative at the mediation, has said that Marietta could eventually exercise home rule and rezone and annex as it pleases without Cobb’s blessing.

(East Cobb News has left a message with Ott’s office seeking comment.)

East Cobb residents in other communities said they’re concerned about a precedent, similar to what’s taking place in the Powers Ferry corridor, if the Traton project goes through.

“If we don’t push back now, that’s what’s going to come along Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Road,” said Hill Wright, who lives in the Spring Creek neighborhood off Holt Road.

“It’s not just about this neighborhood. It’s the first battle in a war” to maintain a traditional suburban setting, he added.

 

East Cobb community, Sewell Manor
The Indian Trail home of William Warwick, which has been in his wife’s family for more than 40 years. It’s surrounded by land proposed for upscale townhomes and single-family homes. 

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Lower Roswell rezoning/annexation request tabled again; mediation looms

A controversial rezoning and annexation request on Lower Roswell Road at the Loop was tabled again on Wednesday by the Marietta City Council.

Cobb County officials delivered a letter to city officials earlier on Wednesday, reiterating their objections under a state law that gives counties that right in high-density cases.

Traton Homes wants to build 37 townhomes and 15 single-family residences on 7.48 acres at the northeast intersection of Lower Roswell and the Loop, a plan that residents in an adjacent neighborhood have opposed.

Many living in Sewell Manor are in the county, and they grew concerned when the Marietta City Attorney suggested Tuesday that a vote could go ahead because Cobb commissioners hadn’t voted on formalizing the objection.

At a town hall meeting elsewhere in East Cobb Wednesday, Cobb commissioner Bob Ott said the council tabled the request, and that he had spoken to Marietta Mayor Thunder Tumlin.

The parties “have agreed to follow the steps of HB 489,” Ott said, referring to the state law in question. That allows counties to enter mediation when there’s such a dispute.

The law kicks in when a city wants to annex unincorporated land that would be zoned for more than four residential units an acre. Traton’s initial request was for more than 11 units an acre, but it’s revised it to 6.5.

That still didn’t set well with Sewell Manor residents who think the project not only remains too dense (their neighborhood density is 1.75 units an acre), but that they also believe will contribute to traffic issues at a clogged intersection.

Ott said the mediation process would include going back to county commissioners, but the possibility looms that the city could annex the land under Georgia home rule provisions.

The property includes three tracts of land already part of the city that front Lower Roswell, and six residential parcels that were once part of Sewell Manor, a community of small homes built in the 1950s.

 

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Lower Roswell townhome project delayed again in Marietta

Lower Roswell townhome project
Traton Homes wants to build 57 three-story townhomes, similar to what’s above, on a cramped corner of Lower Roswell Road and the North Marietta Parkway.

A proposed townhome project on Lower Roswell Road that includes an annexation request and is opposed by nearby residents in unincorporated East Cobb has been tabled by the Marietta City Council.

The council announced the latest delay at its agenda work session Wednesday, and pushed the item back to May.

The developer, Traton Homes, wants to build 37 townhomes and 15 single-family detached residences at Roswell Road and the South Marietta Parkway, and is seeking rezoning from residential (R-20) and community activity center (CAC) to Planned Residential Development Single Family (PRD-SF).

The application is being fought on density and traffic grounds.

 

Lower Roswell townhome project

The council delay comes a week after the Marietta Planning Commission voted 4-2 to recommend denial of Traton Homes’ request, which covers 7.48 acres. Three of the parcels in the tract are already in the city and are zoned for commercial use—they once were sites for automotive repair shops and a recycling business—and six other lots were once part of a single-family subdivision that’s in the county.

The neighborhood is Sewell Manor, which dates back to the 1950s and features small ranch homes. Residents there have said the project is too intensified for their community, and already-bad traffic will be made worse with a single point of entry on Indian Trail.

Traton, one of the largest homebuilders in metro Atlanta, has come down on its original proposal, which was for 63 townhomes and one single-family home.

Lower Roswell townhome projecg
What Traton has in mind for the 15 single-family homes.

The developer filed a last-minute revision on April 1, the day before the Planning Commission hearing (see map above, and click here to view the case file), and included a site plan and requests for a 15 varianc

The variances include no acceleration or deceleration lane on Lower Roswell, and a reduction in the minimum greenspace requirement of 25 percent to 21 percent. That open space is more than the initial request, which was for 12 percent, but is tucked away in a back portion of the assembled property.

Traton first filed the application for consideration in February, but it was also opposed by Cobb County officials, also for density reasons.

The initial request had the project at 8.56 unites an acre, and the revised plan calls for a density of under seven units an acre.

Cobb officials said in their objection letter to the city that current nearby residential density is only 1.75 units an acre, and pointed to a citing a 2004 state law limiting newly annexed land to a maximum of four units an acre.

 

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Revised Lower Roswell townhome plans still face residential opposition

Lower Roswell townhome planx

Traton Homes has reduced the number of townhomes it wants to build on a corner of Lower Roswell Road and the South Marietta Parkway, but some living in the adjoining Sewell Manor neighborhood are still opposed to the project.

The home builder delayed a rezoning and annexation request with the city of Marietta last month (see previous ECN coverage here), and has submitted the new plans ahead of Tuesday’s Marietta Planning Commission meeting.

Traton’s request is for the Planned Residential Development Single Family (PRD-SF) zoning category, and the land is adjacent to smaller, older single-family homes in unincorporated Cobb.

(Here’s the revised zoning case file for Z2019-04.)

The original plans called for 63 townhomes and a single-family home on 7.48 acres. The number of townhomes now is 52, but William Watkins, who lives in Sewell Manor, said that other issues with the project remain along with density, including traffic access, short driveway lengths and a lack of preserving natural surroundings.

Watkins lives on Indian Trail, in one of two homes that’s directly fronting the land area. It includes three parcels of former commercial property in the city of Marietta, and six parcels in Cobb that were part of Sewell Manor, which dates back to the 1950s and 1960s.

The proposed density of the revised townhome project would be nearly seven units an acre, down from 8.56.

“There is no reason to annex residential lots into the City of Marietta to force high-density housing into a low density neighborhood,” Watkins said.

The three city parcels were annexed by Marietta in 1998. They formerly housed automotive businesses but were torn down.

The planning board meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday with a work session, followed by its business meeting, where it will make recommendations. The Marietta City Council will make a final decision on April 10.

 

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