CASE NUMBER: PZ23-013
APPLICANT: Joseph McGorrey, 20 West Transport Partners, LLC.
VARIANCE REQUEST: Flood Protection Variance. Variance Request to UDC Section 10-11 related encroachment in the floodplain and floodway.
LOCATION: 4815 Innovative Way
ZONING: LI ACRES: ac PINs: 19109600010 and 19112600010
Staff Recommendation: APPROVAL Planning and Zoning Recommendation: APPROVAL
BACKGROUND: The applicant is seeking relief to locate the previously developed trailer storage gravel lot, and five storm water ponds within floodplain and floodway.
On November 15, 2021, the City Council approved the annexation and rezoning of the property at 4815 Innovative Way, to develop a 338,550-SF (approx.) Logistics and Distribution Center and a 60,000-SF (approx.) warehouse and business service building. In addition to the annexation and rezoning, variances were granted to the following code sections: Section 8-74 and 8-75 (curb gutter and sidewalk requirement); Section 4-230; Section 8-23 (buffers and impervious setback requirements); Section 7-21 (to allow an existing billboard); Section 10-12 and 10-13 (to allow development within or adjacent to flood hazard area). Additionally, an administrative variance was granted to Sec. 8-23 in May 2022 to allow encroachment into impervious stream buffers.
The applicant is seeking a flood protection variance for the area currently developed with areas graded and graveled for the use of trailer storage. Some of these previous improvements are located within the FEMA mapped floodplain and floodway. The intent is to provide an overall stormwater management plan for the previously developed site that will fulfill the stormwater management requirements of the City of Powder Springs. The gravel lot is currently located within the FEMA mapped floodplain and floodway. The proposed water quality ponds receiving runoff from the site will be located outside the floodway but within the floodplain and capture runoff fr...
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