Warehouse buffer reduction denied apartment ideas announced

A distribution warehouse is currently being prepared for house alongside Raymond Hill Street, but buffer variances for the 30-acre property have been denied by the Coweta County Board of Commissioners.

Whilst voicing worries about the buffer reduction, the consultant of adjoining assets homeowners stated they hope to at some point build flats on their home, which fronts Highway 154.

That 81-acre tract is owned by Dixon Serious Estate et al. and Charles J. Waters et al.

Eric Johansen, representing the Waters home homeowners, claimed the land has been in the household for around 60 years, long ahead of Interstate 85 was developed. There have been many possibilities to sell it off, but they made the decision to keep on to it and “wait for the county to continue to blossom like it has.”

Johansen reported they were being Alright with lowering a buffer, but only if the developer of the warehouse site will create a berm, plant a few rows of trees, allow for access to future sewer and promise not to oppose rezoning of the Waters house.

“If you decrease this, our following action is coming in and inquiring for apartments,” Johansen stated. “We experience that is the optimum and finest use.”

The county’s rules demand a 100-foot buffer in between industrial assets and residential home. On the again facet of the warehouse assets is the Ivy Trace subdivision, and the builders are inquiring for a reduction from 100 to 50 ft. On the side is the Waters residence, and the builders are asking to cut down the buffer down to 25 feet.

Residents of Ivy Trace expressed potent opposition to the buffer reduction. They also have problems about targeted visitors influence.

Engineer George Harper, symbolizing the warehouse home entrepreneurs, All South Attributes, claimed the purpose for the buffer reduction is the need to have to adjust the grade of the house. The 50 ft will be essential to generate a slope down from the buffer to the building website.

There’s a quite significant grade alter on the house.

“We have to reduce the rear of the assets down and move that dust to the front to fill it,” Harper informed the commissioners. The 250,000-square-foot warehouse will be about 34 toes tall.

“Because of the quality changes, the neighbors in the back again definitely won’t be in a position to see a great deal, if any, of the constructing – just the best of the developing,” Harper mentioned.

Harper also asked for the removal of a prerequisite for a left turn lane into the residence. County staff agreed, due to the fact most truck site visitors will be coming from I-85 or Highway 154 and will be turning suitable into the residence – not still left.

Commissioner Rodney Brooks expressed issues about the sound from the warehouse procedure, which includes trucks backing up and getting unloaded.

“That sound is likely to travel,” he reported.

Brooks manufactured a motion to approve removing of the flip lane but to deny the buffer variances, and the movement handed unanimously.