At last Tuesday’s meeting, the Cobb County Planning Commission voted to hold until its May meeting a recommendation on a rezoning request that would allow the applicant to operate a plumbing business on Old Floyd Road.
The request would change the zoning from NS, a retail zoning category no longer used in new requests to the county, to LI (light industrial).
The case number is Z-11-2024, and you can view the documents by following this link.
The property is in Mableton, on the west side of Old Floyd Road and the north side of Center Street.
The applicant is Salt Springs LLC, and its owner, Tom Miller, represented the company at the hearing.
“This building has been there since 1972,” Miller said. “In its current condition, it has been there for about 20 years.”
He said it had previously been used as a tool rental company.
“And currently, we would like to run a plumbing company out of it,” he said.
He said the company plans to remodel the upstairs interior of the two-story building, but has no plans for the exterior “except for making it nicer.” He said the company has done substantial cleanup work on the property, but
Robin Meyer, co-chair of the Mableton Improvement Coalition’s zoning committee, opposed the rezoning’s approval.
“We’re happy to see a use for this property which is more in keeping with the consumer-facing businesses that would like to attract our community,” she said. “But we are very disappointed that there does not seem to be a concrete plan for improving the property.”
“This is very close to Mableton Elementary school,” Meyer said. “It’s close to the new park and Town Square and also close to the new residential development and the old historic part of Mableton.”
“So this building has been here for a very long time, and candidly, it’s showing its age,” she said. “Things in this part of Mapleton are changing, and we would very much like to see this…
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