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Community | 3
APRIL 2020 ■ www.ReporterNewspapers.net
Developer wants to build
61 for-sale townhomes in
Brookhaven’s Lenox Park
CITY OF BROOKHAVEN
Design concepts for the 61 for-sale townhomes proposed
to be built in Brookhaven’s Lenox Park.
BYDYANABAGBY
dyanabagby@reportemewspapers.net
A developer hoping to avoid the controversy of past rezoning requests to build apart
ments in Brookhaven’s Lenox Park on the Buckhead border is proposing to build 61 for-sale
townhomes it says would be the “best fit” for the currently vacant property.
Atlanta-based Minerva Homes seeks to rezoning the approximately 5-acre grassy field
at 1035-1065 Lenox Park Blvd. from “office institutional” to a residential townhouse district.
The developer was scheduled to go before the Brookhaven Planning Commission on April 1,
though the coronavirus pandemic may change that timeline.
The developer’s application, filed with the city in February, notes that past attempts to
build apartments
on the site have
failed due to com
munity backlash.
“The site has
been zoned for 6-8
story office build
ings for almost 20
years, and those
plans have failed
to materialize,”
the developer said
in the applica
tion. “Of the oth
er potential uses,
the community
has been strongly
opposed to rent
al units. We feel
townhomes are
the best fit and are
a perfect balance between the nearby residential uses and the dense commercial uses.”
In a letter to the city, representatives from the developer said they held meetings with
a group of homeowners and leaders from nearby neighborhoods and “have received feed
back that our proposed high-quality for-sale townhomes will be a welcome addition to the
community.”
The property is owned by AT&T, which has not been able to find a developer to build any
thing other than residential on the site. Two previous attempts by different developers to
build apartments on the site were soundly rejected following organized opposition by sin
gle-family homeowners in the area. The homeowners said apartments would increase traf
fic and their property values would sink if the city approved them.
The Planning Commission rejected last year recommending approval of a 199-unit
apartment building for those 55 and older after the developer sought a waiver to the city’s
workforce housing mandate. The city requires new apartments to include at least 10% of
their units as workforce housing. The developer withdrew its rezoning request after learn
ing it would not receive the waiver.
In 2017, another developer withdrew its $65 million plans to build more than 200 apart
ments on the site following community backlash.
CITY OF BROOKHAVEN
The area where the new townhomes would
go is currently a grassy field.
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