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Revised plans for the development at the intersection of
Windsor Parkway and Roswell Road near Chastain Park.
These plans were created when the proposal was 700
units, not the 630 approved by the City Council.
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Wieuca roads in Atlanta’s Buckhead
community, just south of the project.
District 8 Atlanta City Councilwoman
Yolanda Adrean said without a dedicat
ed funding source, the city will have to
get creative.
“I don’t know how we can allow left-
hand turns into that development because
there’s no way for traffic to queue up,” Ad
rean said. “It seems to me the driveway is
going to have to be a right in, right out.”
In addition to the Gateway project,
on July 16 the Sandy Springs City Coun
cil also approved a project at 6558 Ro
swell Road, a redevelopment of a 259-unit
apartment complex by Cortland Develop
ment.
City Councilman Gabriel Sterling
said the projects are a sign of an economy
on the mend. “The economy has turned
around to a point where we can actually
get some of this done,” Sterling said. “We
had a sea change in 2007 and 2008. You
saw credit markets lock up. No deals were
moving on anything.”
New apartments on the city’s main
roads are going to increase, Sterling said.
“In a perfect world, you’d replace these
with single-family homes,” Sterling said.
“The economics of that is simply not a re
ality, especially along Roswell Road.”
Adrean said it’s also a sign that traffic
problems in Atlanta are likely to get worse
before they get better.
“As we become denser and lack the
transportation infrastructure to support
the density, we’re just going to increase
gridlock,” Adrean said.
In 2013, Sandy Springs issued four
building permits for three apartment proj
ects: Perimeter Town Center Apartments,
Sandy Springs Mansions Apartments and
Hammond Center Apartments. The city
issued no multifamily permits in 2012. At
lanta classifies its permits differently than
Sandy Springs, and includes townhomes.
Atlanta issued 72 permits for apartments
and townhomes in 2012, and 83 so far in
2013.
Sandy Springs classifies townhomes
as “single-family attached.” In 2012, San
dy Springs issued 113 permits for town-
homes, and has issued 61 so far in 2013.
The recently-approved Gateway proj
ect will demolish dilapidated apartments
currently on site, Chastain and Versailles,
and replace them with apartments target
ed at tenants who can pay higher rents.
The project will consist of 630 apartment
units, reduced from 700 the developers
initially proposed. The development will
also include office and retail space.
Sandy Springs City Councilwoman
Karen Meinzen McEnerny said the city
needs to put in place policies that will re
strict the number of new apartments be
ing developed. McEnerny was the one
“no” vote against the Gateway and Cor
tland projects.
“I think we need to develop a pol
icy that limits the amount of densi
ty in a number of bedrooms that can
be built on these old apartments, or we
will continue to increase substantially
the apartment count in Sandy Springs,”
McEnerny said. “That’s very concern
ing to me because of the growing imbal
ance of the number of owner-occupied
to rental.”
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