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East Point residents press council over recent warehouse approvals, cite health and property concerns
Summary
Residents from Lakeside Preserve, Heritage and Savannah Walk urged the East Point City Council to reconsider recent warehouse approvals, arguing the projects lower property values, harm quality of life and lacked promised community benefits; council members responded that legal and zoning limits constrained their options.
Residents from multiple neighborhoods used the council’s public-comment period May 5 to urge the East Point City Council to reverse or limit recent approvals of warehouse development in Ward D and other parts of the city.
The speakers said warehouses and related industrial uses reduce property values, increase traffic and noise, and do not bring meaningful benefits to nearby neighborhoods. Several called out a vote in April that they said approved a warehouse project despite resident opposition and a proposed community benefit being removed.
“Why do you, those who voted for the warehouses, consider the residents unworthy of development that’s beneficial to the community?” Lakeside Preserve resident Barbara Jackson asked the council. Sonia Lowe of Heritage said the warehouse vote was “not…
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