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COMMENTARY
Fix Glenridge/Roswell intersection before Windsor Parkway
To the editor:
I am extremely upset to hear that
Sandy Springs’ mayor and City Coun
cil are “determined to get the JLB proj
ect done,” and have been meeting to
come up with taxpayer funding for the
relocation of the Windsor Parkway/Ro
swell Road intersection. The only avail
able funding I have seen referred to in
city paperwork is being taken from oth
er capital projects previously voted on.
It seems to me to be a slap in the
face to existing residents south of 1-285
to eliminate the Glenridge/Roswell
Road intersection improvement, and
use those funds for a development that
is too dense for the area and will tre
mendously increase traffic. Along with
the apartments planned for Glenridge
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Point/Johnson Ferry Road and the Lake
side redevelopment, the JLB/Core proj
ect will add significant car traffic to an
area that is already clogged at peak traf
fic times.
Pictures from a recent Friday at about
5:30 p.m. show what happens on Ro
swell Road at Glenridge. Keep in mind
that this is on a summer day, before a
holiday, and a day with unusually light
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Please note the line of cars waiting
to turn left on Glenridge from south
bound Roswell Road. Not only do they
block anyone from turning left into the
Round Hill Condominiums, they take
up a good deal of the left traffic lane.
On a typical day, between 5 p.m. and
7 p.m., traffic is at a standstill on Glen
ridge, Johnson Ferry, Peachtree Dun
woody, and Roswell roads in every di
rection. I shudder to think what it will
be like with the new JLB/Core project.
Those of us living between Glenridge
JAN RABINOWITZ
Cars waiting to turn left onto
Glenridge from southbound
Roswell Road. Sandy Springs
resident Jan Rabinowitz says
on a typical day, between 5-7
p.m., traffic is at a standstill in
this area. She hopes City Council
and the mayor take notice when
discussing road improvements.
and Windsor Parkway off Roswell Road
will basically be stuck in our homes!
Mayor and council members, please
consider those of us who have been pay
ing our taxes since before Sandy Springs
was a city, and who want to retain our
quality of life here. Please update the
Glenridge/Roswell Road intersection
before undertaking a realignment of
Windsor Parkway/Roswell Road with
our money.
Jan Rabinowitz
Redeveloping Sandy Springs
could bring consequences
To the editor:
I am writing regarding redevelop
ment in Sandy Springs, specifically the
Gateway proposal, also known as JLB
Partners Development.
In 2005, when Sandy Springs be
came a city, Eva Galambos and Tibby-
Dejulio sold us on cityhood for several
compelling reasons. Fulton County was
neglecting us and forcing unfair zoning
upon us. Our quality of life was being
squandered. So we formed our own city,
elected representatives and went about
making years of needed improvements.
Eight years later, you can often tell
where Sandy Springs city limits are due
to pavement alone. But our zoning de
cisions are looking more and more like
Fulton County’s reign. Businesses too
often trump taxpaying residents. In
creasing tax revenues trumps protecting
our quality of life.
At nearly every zoning hearing, I hear
attorneys cite previous decisions that
created precedents they believe now con
done their request. Examples: Church
of Scientology, Lakeside on Glenridge,
Gallery 63 Auction House.
The Gateway proposal would replace
436 apartments with 630 — plus add sev
en buildings (120,000 square feet) of com
mercial space. The building heights (up to
five stories) and density are way over our
Comprehensive Land Use Plan and even
required review by ARC and GRTA.
GRTA ruled our current infrastruc
ture can’t handle this density, so condi
tioned their approval on several things,
including relocating the intersection
of Windsor Parkway at Roswell Road,
north of its current location. And with
nine buildings proposed, JLB doesn’t
have enough required parking, so they’re
also asking for a parking variance.
The development’s benefits are:
1) replacing aging apartments with
upscale ones;
2) likely reducing crime in the area;
3) reducing the number of students
attending High Point schools;
4) adding restaurants and shopping
in walking distance of residences.
The development’s unintended con
sequences:
1) adding 8,554 trips (weekdays) and
10,374 (Saturdays) to our already over
loaded stretch of Roswell Road, mainly
due to the commercial space (based on
GRTA/Foresite Study);
2) setting dangerous precedents on
building height, density and parking,
which could allow other apartment to
increase their numbers by 44.5 percent
in five-story towers, plus add major re
tail with inadequate parking;
3) necessitating a multi-million dol
lar relocation of Windsor Parkway at
Roswell, which takes land from resi
dents, and severely impacts several busi
nesses, and which cannot possibly allow
an additional 8,000 to 10,000 cars with
out reduction in our traffic flow.
JLB has made several compromis
es with its residential neighbors, and we
heartily thank them. This development
is welcome — but at a lowered densi
ty that will not create gridlock, overflow
parking onto residential streets, and ruin
the quality of life we all moved here for.
This application gets a City Coun
cil vote on July 16, so residents, email
councilpersons your views.
Jane Kelley, prejident, IVindoor
Park Community Ajjociatum
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