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City officially seeking ‘master
developer’ for downtown plans
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hopes of attracting a talented developer
to move the city’s plan forward.
City center plans will take nearly a
decade to implement, and will cost up
ward of $100 million, according to city
estimates.
When finished, the project will trans
form a 14-acre block north of 1-285 into
a mixed-use city center. The boundar
ies are Johnson Ferry Road to the north,
Roswell Road to the east, Mount Ver
non Highway to the south, and Sandy
Springs Circle to the west.
The master developer would be re
sponsible for project design, construc
tion, identifying the financing, and im
plementing “lifestyle” elements like
concierge services.
City Council in August released a
draft of the RFQ to gather input from
developers. Based on that input, consist
ing of 11 comments from local compa
nies, the council made some tweaks to
its request.
The RFQ now says, “Profes
sional Services of Master Developer to
Partner with the City of Sandy Springs
in the Development of City Center,”
with “partner” replacing the word “as
sisting.”
The council added language
in the “Project Overview” section to in
clude the Fidelity National Bank property.
Kraun said the banks owners are interest
ed in potential partnerships with the city.
The RFQ now includes lan
guage giving the city flexibility to “ex
pand the scope” of public and private
sector investment in the project.
Kraun said a pre-submittal confer
ence is planned for Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. at
Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone
Road. She said all questions asked and
answered during this conference will be
posted on the city’s website.
RFQ responses are due Oct. 25,
2013, Kraun said.
Current trees ordinance
not ‘cutting it’
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2007 isn’t cutting it.
“I served on the council when we
passed it,” McEnerny said. “We really
thought we were protecting the trees in
the buffers [between properties]. We’re
going to get a stronger tree ordinance.”
The ambiguity of the city’s ordinance
creates a lot of shadowy gray areas.
Some issues include:
Private owners can cut down
trees on their own property, but devel
opers need to get surveys and clear it
with city inspectors. In some cases, pri
vate owners are cutting down trees and
then selling cleared property to a devel
oper.
Developers want more flexibil
ity to work or park equipment around
trees on adjoining property to the prop
erty they are developing. Current rules
set up buffer areas intended to protect
roots of trees on neighboring properties.
Bill Harrison, a local architect, spoke
to City Council on Sept. 3, along with
several other residents who wanted the
city to update and clarify its regulations.
“The largest issue I have with it is
it essentially leaves out 80 percent of
the population,” Harrison said. “It
doesn’t apply to homeowners the way
it applies to builders and developers.
It’s the equivalent of passing speeding
laws and only applying it to trucks.”
McEnerny said that it’s a good
time to look at the existing laws now
that construction activity is picking
up again. She said the slow economy
could be a reason why the city’s overall
tree canopy increased from 52 percent
canopy cover in 2008 to 59 percent
canopy cover in 2010. Sandy Springs
has also been named a Tree City USA
for the last four years, a distinction
awarded by the national Arbor Day
Foundation.
McEnerny said she’s hopeful city
staff can come up with revisions that
will prevent further cutting of trees in
the city.
“The council has asked staff to re
view the tree ordinance,” she said.
I’m looking forward to something com
ing out the other end that will be a more
balanced ordinance than the one we
have now.”
According to city spokeswoman
Sharon Kraun, City Council during
its Sept. 17 meeting approved a list of
projects that will be paid for with the
city’s tree fund, money paid by devel
opers who receive tree removal permits
from the city. McEnerny was the lone
“no” vote on the project list, saying she
was concerned some of the money was
being used for other types of landscap
ing and not on planting trees. Accord
ing to a meeting summary provided
by the city, Councilman Gabriel Ster
ling said that in some cases the council
wanted to add more green space but
planting trees wasn’t possible due to
site conditions.
The full project list approved by the
council in order of priority: Abernathy/
Roswell Road island, $20,000; City
Center street trees, $35,000; Springs
Crossing landscape, $15,000; Mount
Vernon and Glenridge island, $25,000;
Glenridge Drive south of Abernathy,
$21,983.
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