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Sandy Springs puts six-month
hold on rezoning requests
BYJOHNRUCH
Sandy Springs City Council put a
180-day moratorium on many new re
zoning applications on July 21—the
same night it dealt with major rezon-
ings on Roswell Road and the Glenridge
Connector.
The six-month moratorium affects
rezonings for apartments, commercial,
business, and office or mixed-use classi
fications. It gives the council breathing
room while the city updates its Com
prehensive Plan over the next year or
so. The current Comprehensive Plan
has proven inadequate or contradictory
in the current building boom, council-
men said.
“We have gotten into a bad pattern...
[of determining] land use by zoning
case,” Mayor Rusty Paul said.
The council had two prime examples
earlier in the meeting, where it tried to
tweak projects amid vague zoning def
initions.
A major, long-delayed mixed-use
project at 6075-6077 Roswell Road got
rezoning approval—but only for 291
multifamily housing units instead of
the 324 applied for. Amid density con
cerns from the public, that number was
the council’s best guess at hitting a num
ber closer to surrounding projects. It re
mains to be seen if homebuilder Cam
den USA will find that feasible.
At 5575 Glenridge Connector, the
council essentially asked Glenridge
Highland III, LLC to withdraw its ap
plication for a roughly 300,000-square-
foot office building amid traffic con
cerns. One complication: the property
is designated a “Live Work Communi
ty” in the current Comprehensive Plan,
even though it already has a 19-story of
fice tower on it.
Project attorney Woody Galloway
said the developers would give the city
an extra $500,000 for long-term traffic
fixes. But Paul said, “I’m probably going
to veto anything over 185,000 square
feet” with the traffic and long-term
planning concerns.
Galloway said the project has an in
terested tenant and will have to see if a
smaller building proposed by the coun
cil at 175,000 square feet would be fea
sible.
The rezoning moratorium does not
affect such projects already in the pipe
line. But it is in effect immediately on
any new requests and can be renewed if
the council finds it necessary.
Former mayor and sole Democrat
in runoff for House seat
Four candidates, three of them Re
publicans, campaigned for the District
80 seat in the state House of Represen
tatives. When votes in the July 14 elec
tion were counted, the sole Democrat
led the field.
Democrat Taylor Bennett, an attor
ney and former Georgia Tech football
player, will face Republican and former
Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis in an
Aug. 11 runoff election.
The district covers Brookhaven and
parts of Sandy Springs, Chamblee and
Dunwoody. But DeKalb County vot
ers in Georgia House District 80 went
to the polls at a much higher rate and in
much higher numbers than their Fulton
County counterparts, returns from the
July 14 election show.
Candidate
Percent
Votes
Taylor J. Bennett (D)
36.84%
1,473
J. Max Davis (R)
31.49%
1,239
Catherine S. Bernard (R)
30.09%
1,203
Loren Collins (R)
1.38%
63
Total votes
3,998
J. Max Taylor
Davis Bennett
Turnout in the DeKalb portion of
the district reached nearly 16 percent of
the registered voters. In Sandy Springs,
a mere 6 percent of the registered voters
made it to the polls.
Joe Earle
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