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Commissioners recommend senior-living plan for 54-acre Hopkins Road site after community meeting, developer concessions
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend rezoning 54 acres along Hopkins Road to RSL (Residential Senior Living) after the applicant reduced unit count, agreed to environmental protections and offered a $35,000 contribution toward an off-site turn-lane improvement.
The Cobb County Planning Commission recommended approval of rezoning case Z10 of 2025 to allow an age‑restricted residential senior living community on roughly 54 acres along Hopkins, Macklin and John Petrie roads.
Applicant attorney Kevin Moore told the commission the proposal had been revised in response to neighborhood concerns after an extensive community meeting. The revised layout reduces maximum units from 120 to 114 and preserves about 17 acres of the site — including existing lakes, stream buffers and wetlands — the applicant said.
Why it matters: Neighbors had…
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