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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 lodged complaints about traffic, stormwater and environmental impacts. The applicant presented a traffic study and compared trip generation for the proposed RSL development against a hypothetical 94-unit single-family subdivision; the RSL plan generated roughly 40% fewer AM peak trips, Moore said, which he and others described as a local advantage given the signal configuration on Hopkins Road.
CobbDOT reviewed the traffic study and asked the applicant to consider a $35,000 contribution toward a system improvement at the unsignalized Hopkins–Macklin intersection to help address an existing right‑turn bottleneck. The applicant agreed to the contribution during the hearing. Stormwater staff said it expects the applicant to complete detailed hydrology and sediment studies and to manage runoff on‑site; stormwater’s representative said the applicant indicated it will not use downstream lakes as a substitute for on‑site stormwater control.
The revised plan also moved lots away from small wetlands and expanded the detention and water‑quality areas around a primary lake the developer proposed to protect. The project team agreed to use low‑glare amenity lighting to reduce light pollution and to follow stormwater and buffer protections included in the stipulation letter dated May 27, 2025.
The commission’s motion recommended approval with the staff‑recommended limit of no more than 2.5 units per acre (the applicant’s revised plan yields about 2.4 units per acre), final elevation and site plan approval by the district commissioner, and standard reviews by county departments. Commissioners praised the applicant’s outreach and the changes made after the community meeting.
The case will go to the Board of Commissioners for final action.
