Zoning board approves 213,000‑sq‑ft warehouse and stream‑buffer impacts after EPD and Army Corps signoffs

The Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 18 approved a variance allowing a portion of the City of South Fulton’s stream buffers to be impacted at 4105 Roosevelt Highway so a developer can build a roughly 213,000‑square‑foot light industrial warehouse, after staff amended an earlier recommendation of denial to conditional approval following receipt of state and federal approvals.

Reggie McClendon, the city’s managing director for community development, told the board staff’s recommendation changed after the applicant provided an approval from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and a nationwide permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “Subsequently to that, we have received…the approvals from the Army Corps and the EPD,” McClendon said; staff therefore recommended conditional approval subject to the conditions those agencies imposed.

Henry Bailey, counsel for the applicant, described the proposed redevelopment as a company‑led redevelopment of…