At its meeting Tuesday, the Cobb County Planning Commission delayed making a recommendation on a rezoning request for a property on Austell Road in the City of Mableton.
It held the case until its May meeting. The case number is Z-10-2024, and you can view the case documents by following this link.
The property is located on the west side of Austell Road and the south side of Warren Drive.
The applicant is Paul A. Edjua, owner of POPOL LLC. Edjua owns an urgent care center adjacent to the property and wants to combine two small properties currently in different zoning categories.
The request is to rezone the property from GC (general commercial) and R-15, to NRC (neighborhood retail center) for the purpose of building a small retail center. Edjua also requests three variances with a reduction in the setback required by the code.
The variances are:
1. To reduce the front setback from the required 50 feet to 20 feet.
2. To reduce the major side yard setback from the required 35 feet to 15 feet.
3. To reduce the Landscape Buffer adjacent to residentially zoned property from the
required 20 feet to 10 feet.
Edjua said that the small size of the property and its location as a corner lot make the variances necessary to build to an economically viable size.
“I looked at the objection from some of my opposition, as well as the recommendation of the zoning staff,” he said. “I’ve already done some stuff which I saw online as a recommendation.”
“There’s already a 200-foot privacy fence that was the first thing I did a year ago in anticipation for this, between the property and the residential property to the west,” he said.
Edjua said that his parking area would not be visible from the residential property along Warren Drive because of the eight-foot fence.
“And I’m also going to do a good buffer … landscape buffer,” he said.
He said he could not build his project on the property without requesting variances…
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