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family attached dwellings uh at a density of 6.4. four four units per acre. This is Ark One Construction on

Cooper Lake Road. Joey, I assume you're going to handle the background. Yes, sir. Good evening, Mayor Council. I'm Joey Sts, Planner 2 in the community development department. The applicant is Ark1 Construction. Um, this was heard by the planning board on September 15th. They recommended approval 5 to one. This subject parcel is approximately 2 acres. It was reszoned limited commercial in 2006 for 19,000 foot medical building that was never constructed. The applicant is requesting to reszone this to TD conditional for 13 town homes at a density of 6.44 units per acre. Future land use will remain neighborhood activity center. Um to the north of it is the Wellstar office building and a daycare. To the south a little bit is um fire station and then there's residential on either sides. This is the proposed site plan. There are a few variances for the setbacks. So, I'll have a front set back on North Cooper Lake of 23 feet. On the Cooper Lake side, it'll be 10 feet. On the interior side will be 10 ft and the rear is 30 ft. There's 13 rear entry town homes, 24 by 50. They will all face North Cooper Lake. There are 17 guest parking spaces. And there'll be five foot sidewalk and two foot grass strip around around the whole perimeter of the property. Uh there's a 20- foot sanitary sewer easement along the front and a flood plane in the back of the property which kind of limits where development can occur on this property. Maybe storm storm water will be at the rear of the property. We're requesting a crosswalk along North Cooper Lake and a crosswalk along across Cooper Lake. These are the v variances that are requested. The front setback on North Cooper Lake from 25 to 23 feet. Reduction of the front sap set back along Cooper Lake Road from 25 ft to 10 feet.

Reduction of the side setback from 25 ft to 10 ft. and allow reduction of the side to side building separation from 20 to 16th. That's just for the one section of the town homes. These are some of the proposed elevations and this is a picture of the subject property and some adjacent properties. Community Development recommends approval of the reszoning from limited commercial to TD conditional for 13 town homes at a density of 6.44 units per acre with standard conditions regarding the architecture of the homes and the tree ordinance requirements. Special conditions are nine are the setbacks I discussed. 10 is a minimum 20 foot driveway length. 11 is if North Cooper Lake Road is damaged, it'll be milled and overlaid um after construction is uh complete. We will document that before and after for the developer to know what our expectations are. 12 is the crosswalk across Cooper Lake Road. Um that may be modified where the location is, but uh that's what we're expecting is some type of crosswalk to get to the southbound um sidewalk on Cooper Lake Road. 13 is a rideway dedication of 5T. 14. uh the retaining wall and footing shall not encroach the FEMA zone AE. 15. A guardrail shall be in installed on top of the retaining wall. 16. A letter of no conflict from Cobb Water and Sewer regarding the sanitary sewer easement. 17. Curbon gutters will be installed along Cooper Lake Road for the length of development. 18 and 19 tie this to the site plan and the elevation submitted with the application. I'd be happy to answer any questions questions of Joey. Thank you. I'd like to invite the applicant up. Where are you in? Before you sit down, Councilman Welsh is asking if we can pull back up the elevations. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Josh Mahoney.

I'm an attorney at Battle Law PC 3562 Hashammer North Lake in Tucker, Georgia. and I'm here this evening to speak on behalf of the applicant for this uh resoning. We're looking to develop 13 high-end luxury town homes uh on this on this property and I've got a short presentation to walk you through um what we've come up with. So, the property we're discussing is at the corner of Cooper Lake Road and North Cooper Lake Road, just across the street from WellStar Medical and Woodchase at Vinings Preschool. Um on the other side of WellStar Medical, you've got the East West Connector and to the south of the property, Smyrna Fire Rescue 5. Um just kind of give you an idea of where we are in the world. So I'm showing you the zoning map. Now, this red hatch, that's the uh limited commercial zoning that's in the area. You can see there's this little small pocket of commercial, but everything else in the area is zoned residentially of some kind. Um, so we'll be moving away from the commercial use into something a little less intense, a little closer to what we've got in the area. So this is our latest site plan and this um has been a process. This has come about uh as a result of a lot of work with the planning staff uh even some work with Cobb County DOT. So, we've landed on this um this layout here. Uh and we think it is ultimately the the best product that we put forward so far. Uh we've got some connectivity, some pedestrian connectivity for folks who are walking along Cooper Lake Road. We've got a really nice inviting layout with these tower homes being uh facing out. Um so, as you're walking along North Cooper Lake Road, you're not looking at the back of someone's house.

You are looking at the front of someone's house. So, it looks like it's nice and inviting. Uh there's lots of pathways that connect to the sidewalk. So, uh if you were visiting, you could even walk right into someone's front door and say hello. Uh our point of ingress and egress is right off of North Cooper Lake Road. We've only got one of those. And then we've got 17 um guest parking spaces, so folks won't be clogging this uh street. They'll have a dedicated place that they can go. Uh we mentioned these elevations a little bit. So at the top left, this is kind of what you'd see if you were standing on North Cooper Lake Road looking at these units. Uh to the right of that, that's what's on the back side. So there's a drop in grade. You go in, you can park. You won't see those garages from the street. And then down here at the bottom, you've got an idea of the types of finishes that we're talking about. High-end um using brick and other high quality materials. Uh here are some example floor plans for you all. Uh this is a really cool out in my opinion because here on the left you can see that ground level. Uh there's the garage but then there's uh one of the bedrooms. This is a bedroom but you know in my opinion I think I would convert that to an office. Maybe use it as a form of you know to work get away from everybody. Get down there and and get some work done. Uh whereas on the main level in the upper floor you've got your living room, kitchen, dining room, two more bedrooms uh as well as you know a couple of patios. Um, you can really see them here on this on this cutaway.

On the rear of the property, on the rear of these units, you've got two patios and then uh one on the front as well off of the primary bedroom. Um, so I appreciate um Mr. Stabs going through all of the conditions. I included them here just to let you all know. We appreciate you not going through them again. I'm not going to do it again. I just brought him here to say we agreed to each and every one of these. Uh it was it was a little back and forth there for a second, but we have landed on something that we all agree on and we are good to go for each and every one of these. Um I think I'll end by saying I was really happy to see that recommendation of approval from the planning staff as well as from the planning commission. Uh while I'm not sure if they're here this evening, we did have a couple of folks speak in support at the planning commission. I was really happy to see that as well. Um so with that, I'll reserve the rest of my time and if you'll have any questions, I'm here to help. Any questions of the applicant? Yes. What What do you think? Welch. Oh, sorry. Welch, you're recognized. Um, a couple of questions. Can you pull back up the the plan B first? I think this one. The plan B. The plan. Yeah. Um, it's showing on my screen. You see? That's close enough. I I just want to make sure the elevations look very nice. You got a front and a rear elevation. Nothing on the side. I just want to make sure and I have nothing against Hardy PL but I just want to make sure that we don't have one full side of that building that is nothing but hardy planks.

Um is that the case or do you have that decided at this point? So I've got the applicant here with me who can answer that question. Do we are we using Hardy Plank on the side? Come on up. This is my client. His name is Andy Kumar. He'll be the developer. He just wanted to make sure that we're not seeing that from the road. Yeah. Yeah. It's facing I I guess it's it's not North Cooper Lake. That's Cooper Lake. Oh, so Cooper Lake down here. Will this be Hardy Plank on this side? Uh we haven't really decided on the exact material and stuff. Whatever the recommendation for the TD zoning is, we'll comply with those particularly and then any improvements on that, we'll probably talk with them and make sure that they they recommend. All right. So from from our stand, from my standpoint anyway, u I would like to require that none of the end of those buildings be solid hard. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that sounds good. Thank you. Um what is the price point you're looking at? It's a great question. So, it's hard to nail down a price given the economic climate today um with things kind of coming online and going offline. Um that being said though, we're looking somewhere in the realm of 700 $800,000 potentially higher if things uh change. It's in line with what is in the market. So we kind of studied what is around there and keeping the price point around that and if the you know what's going on in the market with materials and labors and stuff. So things change then we have to adjust accordingly. If approved how long uh until construction begins and what do you how long do you expect the project to to take to build? Well um we generally uh estimate projects like this to be 18 months to 24 months.

But it will depend upon how quickly we go through the process of obtaining permits LDP to start with. Build on your question, Mr. Mayor, to make sure. Are will you will your company be the builder? Yes. To sell on the property after it's approved. Uh we don't have that part right now. Like to see it built. Yeah. Okay, great. That's what we intend to do. We're all on the same page then. That's good. Any other questions for the Right. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. This is Are Are you finished with your presentation? Yes, I am. Okay. This is a public hearing. I'd like to invite anybody who wants to speak for or against this item up now. Be sworn in by our city attorney. Come on up. Welcome and thanks for being here. Running away. If you'll just state your name and address for the record. Certainly. It's Rebecca Johnson at 568 Lake View Terrace Smyrna. Um, right down the street from where this development is going to be. So, I'll be very I thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council, for allowing um these these statements. I wish that I had uh been at the earlier zoning hearing, but I didn't know about it. So, um I wanted to make these uh comments um on not officially on behalf of a whole neighborhood, but unofficially on behalf. Um there are really four strong issues that that make us against this development. Um, traffic is, any of you who have been down there, uh, on Cooper Lake Road trying to get on East West Connector, horrendous. It's It's horrendous. Uh, particularly morning and evenings coming to and from work. Um, I mean, we see traffic back up from uh, east west all the way close to a mile up Cooper Lake, past Nicac, over the hill, and it it last and last and last.

So, um, this will only exacerbate, particularly because it's so close to east west, how those cars are going to get out in this little half block, not even a half a block area onto Cooper Lake in order to get on East Lake, East West is not is not practical in our minds because it truly is only a distance as from here to your police guy out front. It's very short. So that means that there's going to have to be some way for those cars to come and turn left to get on east west. So that's one big issue is traffic in general and that particular issue is is going to make it difficult. Um there are um concerns about the daycare center being so this being so close to the daycare center with the traffic and so on. Uh there are concerns about the fire fire department having uh the ability to get out easily. It's already difficult enough for them. I've been here for 22 years in this same home and have seen of course Smyrna's growing. We love that. Uh and particularly in that area. So um there's you know the fire department's right there and some and when they have to get out to east west it's it's difficult. And and finally, um there are at least 750 homes within a quarter mile of this intersection where this development will be. At least 750. Almost all are against this development. No, they're not here unfortunately. But um it may seems like seem like a small development because it's only 13 town homes, but it will have a very large impact we we believe on the um quality of our life and living in in this area of Smyrna that we moved to. Our safety as far as traffic, the accidents, I have pictures of the accidents at north at Cooper Lake and East West.

You don't want to see them. The number of accidents there are huge. It It's one of the most dangerous intersections in Cobb County. I'm you have probably heard things about this intersection before. Um so our safety is a big concern. Um and our home values were concerned about that. Although 700 800,000 is not where I would be able to go either. So, but um because of the traffic we and and and the other issues, we believe it could decrease our home values because nobody will want to come down there. So, that is my short presentation. I appreciate your your um attention and I don't know if you want to ask any questions or anything, but I appreciate it. Thank you. Sean Murphy, 3282 Lee Street, Forest Hills. Um I think my uh I'm generally in support of this uh project and I think uh when you look at the site um there's a medical office building across the street and for some of the same reasons she just said she's concerned about traffic. Well, if we don't zone it residential for 13 town homes, what's it going to be? It's going to be something commercial. that means it's going to be another retail building or an office building or something that's going to generate far more traffic than 13 town homes would. So, I would argue actually that town homes is probably the least amount of traffic you're going to get if you develop something on that corner. Um, the other thing is it's it just makes sense as a step down zoning. We're going from office, we've got a daycare, we've got a fire station, and then all around it, we've got fairly high density or moderate density uh very small lot residential developments except for the one house that's to the north. And so this these town homes, which in a town home sense, it's not even a very dense town home development.

There's quite a bit of green space there, just seems to me a good a good fit for that piece of land and a good a good way for us to get some tax revenue and do the right thing at that that corner. Thank you. Anybody else want to speak for against this item? All right, we'll close the public hearing and this is in ward four. I'll turn it over to Mr. Welch. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Could I call Joey back up for just a minute or just for a question on the um on the site plan? Yes, sir. Was there any question or discussion or consideration given to the traffic and being able to get in and out of this development? I I can understand the the first speaker's concern for pulling out there on the lake. U there's there's ways to assist it, but Was there any discussion during y'all's review? Our transportation engineer has reviewed it. Our fire marshall has reviewed it. They didn't have any major concerns. I I don't think we can do a three-way stop there. Potential to do a two-way stop, but uh anyway, that's that was my question. Um with that, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve item 7BZ25-011, the reasonzoning request as presented. We have a second. Can I ask one question? Are you adding the stipulation? Yes, I I appreciate you mentioning that, Scott. But I do want to add a stipulation that the in buildings contain no more than 50% party product or similar um needs to be a mixed use. Added that to the motion. And did I hear Mr. G? Everybody please vote. Mr. Lenley, how do you vote? I vote yes. That's approved unanimously. Thank you.

We're moving now to item C under community development items. This is a public hearing a reszoning uh for four