Staff Report
Case Number: PZ 21-031
APPLICANT: City of Powder Springs: City-initiated Rezoning
PETITION: Rezoning: NRC to CRC of the City owned property located at Pine Grove Drive and Powder Springs Road, within land lot 867 of the 19th District, 2nd Section, and Cobb County, Georgia. To consider a city-initiated rezoning of city owned property, NRC to CRC at Pine Grove Drive and Powder Springs Road.
PURPOSE OF THE REQUEST: This rezoning is intended to make the zoning of the subject site consistent with the zoning of the adjacent property to the east along Powder Springs Road.
LOCATION: Pine Grove Drive and Powder Springs Road, within land lot 867 of the 19th District, 2nd Section, and Cobb County, Georgia.
PARCEL ID NUMBER: 19086700080.
BACKGROUND: The road realignment project at the intersection of Powder Springs Road and Flint Hill Road resulted in Pine Grove Drive crossing the future development site at a different point. This resulted in inconsistent zoning (NRC and CRC) on that future development site. This rezoning request would make the entire future development site CRC zoning. The lot highlighted in red is NRC, while lot to the east is zoned CRC. On the map below, these lots are separated by the previous path of Pine Grove Drive, however, Pine Grove Drive now runs to the west of the subject site as shown. Pine Grove is now directly across from Flint Hill Road, forming a four-way intersection at Powder Springs Road.
Figure 1 Parcel to be rezoned from NRC to CRC at the intersection of Flint Hill Rd., Pine Grove Dr. and Powder Springs Rd.
SURROUNDING LAND USE:
To the north exists NRC zoning, and a mix of residential commercial uses exist along Pine Grove Drive. MDR zoning district exists immediately north of the future development site. The zoning district to the east along Powder Springs Road is CRC in the City and GC (General Commercial) in the county. Commercial uses predominate to the west along Powder Springs Road within the City,...
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