STAFF REPORT: PZ 21 - 045
APPLICANT: Adam Baker, SA Land Group
PETITION: To rezone from NRC and R-20 to PUD-R
LOCATION: 3149, 3189, 3215, and New Macland Road, within land lots 725 and 682 of the 19th District, 2nd Section, and Cobb County, GA. PINs: 19072500020, 19072500090, 19068200030.
ZONING: NRC and R-20 ACRES: 6.2 Units: 41 Townhomes Proposed Density: 6.6 Units/AC
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval
BACKGROUND: The applicant proposes developing 41 residential units in a townhome development at the site. In September 2017, Council approved a Special Use Request to house a wireless communications tower on approximately a quarter acre of the southern parcel of the proposed site. That tower currently exists at the parcel cut-out area shown in Figure 1, at the southern boundary of the proposed development.
The PUD-R zoning district is intended to promote high quality residential developments. The PUD-R district is intended to allow flexible site planning and building arrangements under a unified plan of development so that innovative land planning methods may be utilized which foster natural resource conservation and neighborhood cohesiveness as well as neo-traditional developments. The proposed site plan submitted does not include a recreation area, nor a 35-foot perimeter buffer as prescribed by the UDC for PUD-R zoned districts.
Figure 1. Proposed Site Plan. New Macland Road.
SURROUNDING AREA: Residential zoning districts (R-20, MDR) are predominant in the surrounding area to the north, east, and west. Adjacent to the south is CRC zoning - the southern boundary proposed residential development would abut the commercial development at the corner of New Macland and Macedonia Roads.
A 170-foot wireless telecommunication tower and facility currently exists at the southern boundary of the site at 3215 New Macland Road. A Special Use Request was approved in September 201...
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