Jul. 5—A zoning software to transform an undeveloped parcel on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton into an automobile sections store is struggling with opposition from the Mableton Enhancement Coalition.
Sitting around the highway’s intersection with Buckner Road, Streamline Development hopes to develop an AutoZone on a 1.1 acre portion of a 3.8 acre parcel. The property does not demand a modify in zoning classification, but does have to have the elimination of pre-existing restrictions to permit the store to be created. The county’s Setting up Fee will contemplate Streamline’s application at its every month listening to Tuesday early morning.
Speaking with the MDJ final 7 days, MIC zoning committee chair Robin Meyer explained the parcel was at first rezoned for a substantial private school complex which never ever superior to development. By slicing off the portion of the parcel for the AutoZone, she reported, the “piecemeal” rezoning would “go away powering an awkwardly shaped piece of house.”
“We would like to see a complete prepare for this corner, not piecemeal zoning, and that extensive program would permit for an comprehension of how the traffic will flow,” she mentioned, arguing the proliferation of extra business driveways together that extend of highway would negatively influence congestion by growing truck visitors.
Meyer additional reported yet another vehicle components store—which are regularly cited as a a lot less-than-attractive land use in zoning hearings—isn’t what the space demands.
“Really candidly, Mableton is saturated with automobile-similar employs,” Meyer explained. “(It) simply will make our group unattractive to other types of business enterprise, and it normally takes up valuable commercial destinations, these types of as this one particular, for employs that … are additional correct for an up-and-coming group.”
Garvis Sams, attorney for Streamline, explained he is been in contact with MIC for their input on the challenge, but “this software is merely 1 software where our views vary.”
Sams conceded modifications in the very last decade to the area’s long run land use designation had stemmed the growth of “vehicle-centric” makes use of, but argued “it was not intended or made to rid (the place) of ALL automotive relevant makes use of.” He went on to define a half-dozen extra factors in favor of the rezoning, noting county staff members has recommended approval of the task and that the building will be matter to region-specific structure requirements.
In other small business, the Setting up Commission will revisit Tuesday the proposal by North Place Ministries to build a 125,000 square foot church and 129 houses at the intersection of Johnson Ferry and Shallowford streets.
When last heard in May possibly, North Point’s software stirred approximately as substantially controversy as the significant-profile redevelopment of Sprayberry Crossing in east Cobb. Dozens have turned out to the latest hearings, both of those in-human being and on the net, boasting alternately the church would be a blessing for the region or a catastrophe.
Planning Commissioner Tony Waybright signifies the region and reported in May that North Point’s strategy had shown “significant enhancements” and was trending in the ideal route. In advance of Tuesday’s hearing, he explained to the MDJ he was nevertheless studying a new site strategy from the developer.
North Point’s attorney Kevin Moore, in the meantime, mentioned the alterations to the most current variation are largely cosmetic alterations to the project’s structure.
