Thursday, September 6, 2012
The City Council on a split vote rejected an apartment zoning request by Crescent Resources.
The Milton City Council split in a vote on a Deerfield Parkway apartment rezoning, with the 4-3 vote denying the 256-unit apartment complex application. Council members opposed to the rezoning didn't want the city to lose what little commercial property that is left for development. Only 114 acres of property would remain that would allow uses such as retail and office if the 21-acre property had been rezoned for the residential use. The property is located on Deerfield Parkway next door to the office park where City Hall can be found, and is across the street from a Verizon Wireless office building. Walmart and Fry's Electronics are to the rear of the property. City Council Vote Crescent Resources wanted to build 12 units per acre on the …
Monday, June 18, 2012
The form-based code zoning puts form over function. Council also decides if it wants to put beer "growlers" on a future agenda.
Alpharetta already has two "growler" stores announced, and the sale of draft beer in a sealed, big glass jug will become a regular occurrence. On Monday at 6 p.m., June 18, Milton City Council will decide if it wants to put the issue on a future agenda for possible adoption. Growlers can't be sold in restaurants. Stores selling growlers must have a package beer sales license. A recently adopted state law allows cities to amend their alcoholic beverages ordinance to authorize growler sales, making it a city-by-city decision. (Counties make the call for their unincorporated areas.) Monday's vote at Milton City Hall will not be about the ordinance. On first presentation, City Council decides if it will hear the proposal at a future meeting, …
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Staff and Milton's Planning Commission have recommended approval for the Deerfield Parkway rezoning request, which is expected to be put on a future City Council agenda by a vote tonight.
While Alpharetta continues to reject most apartment zoning applications, Milton City Council gets its first look at a 256-unit apartment development that has its staff's recommendation for approval. The council meets tonight at 6 p.m. at Milton City Hall, but the zoning application by Crescent Resources is just at first presentation stage, which is when the City Council decides if it will consider an item. No vote other than to place it on a future agenda will be taken. The 21.4-acre apartment development site is on Deerfield Parkway, next door to the office development in which City Hall is located. The latest site plan shows a single driveway entrance to Deerfield Parkway. The site has multiple zoning designations, with a C-1 (Community …
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The green swatch of property next to City Hall is the development site.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The developer wants to change the land use from office to high-density residential on property along Westside Parkway just north of Avalon.
A developer wants to build 300 apartments off Westside Parkway just north of Webb Bridge Road – and the recently approved Avalon project. The application is scheduled before the Alpharetta Planning Commission on Thursday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. Community Development Director Diana Wheeler said the developer has been told about the city's goal of 85 percent for sale to 15 percent for rent residential ratio. Avalon was approved after North American Properties told Alpharetta City Council it had an agreement with a developer who had vested rights to apartment units to swap them for commercial property use. The property owner wanting to develop this property, Webb Bridge LLC, has not yet returned a call about this application. Facts…
Monday, April 23, 2012
Alpharetta City Council would have to approve any transfer of development rights–in this case apartments–so North American Properties has no guarantees for its development.
Since Alpharetta doesn't have an ordinance on its books that allows for transferring development rights, North American Properties would have no guarantees that it could get rights to apartments from another site. The city's Planning Commission recommended this as the way the developer could build its mixed-use Avalon project at the former Prospect Park site and still keep the 250 rental units above retail shops it says are critical. "We don't have a TDR [transfer of development rights] ordinance on our books. So absent that ordinance, there's not a smooth, clean process about which to do a transfer of development rights," said Assistant City Administrator James Drinkard. What will you tell City Council during tonight's Public Hearing at …
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Roswell City Council approved nearly five years worth of work on the Groveway community's hybrid form-based code.
After nearly five years of preparation, a first approval in March and four hours of discussion both for and against the Groveway community hybrid form-based code, Roswell City Council passed the locally unprecedented ordinance Monday night. "This is an exciting time. It's a change that will keep Roswell going," said Councilman Jerry Orlans, noting the "sense of place" that will be added to Roswell through the ordinance. Opponents of the zoning plan worry that it will permit thousands of apartments in the community. In the end, five of the six council members voted for approval of the ordinance, having taken a considerable amount of time to flush out some of the details that bothered them during the weeks since the first reading in mid-…
Monday, March 26, 2012
Avalon's developers say 'don't call them apartments,' but that's exactly what the rental housing in the mixed-use proposal is considered by the city.
Alpharetta's Planning Commission has scheduled a work session tonight, March 26, for the sole purpose of discussing the Avalon development proposal. The meeting will be held at Alpharetta City Hall immediately after a short City Council public hearing. The commission had tabled North American Properties' application for a master plan amendment during its March 1 meeting. Planning Commissioner Francis Kung'u made the motion, saying there was too much information to digest at the time. His motion included a proposal for two Planning Commission workshops before the April 5 meeting, though this was the only one scheduled. He said they particularly needed to consider the following: The city already exceeds the ratio of apartments its policy …
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Dave Holland
2:34 pm on Sunday, September 9, 2012
I question that Mike. more ›