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Commission backs contractor/service‑garage office park on Tamachichi but residents push access and truck limits
Summary
The planning commission recommended rezoning for a planned contractor/service professional office park with a gas station on Arthur K. Bolton and Tamachichi roads, approving staff conditions but facing neighborhood objections about access to Tamachichi, truck traffic and buffering.
The planning commission recommended approval of two rezoning requests (applications 2511Z and 2512Z) for a proposed contractor/service professional office‑garage park with an accessory gas station fronting Arthur K. Bolton (AKB) and with planned internal access toward Tomachichi Road.
Applicant counsel described the project as a series of small tenant suites that combine an office in front with a roll‑up garage door for contractor and service professionals; total projected building area is about 93,000 square feet across seven buildings and an accessory fuel station. Counsel and staff said a gas station could be permitted by right on the C‑1 parcel as currently zoned, but the planned development proposed a single coordinated site with conditions limiting truck stops and prohibiting exterior public repair garages.
Neighbors who live along Tomachichi and Chi‑Chi Road urged stricter access controls: they wanted the Tamachichi connection to be emergency access only (as in a previous nearby approval) rather than a through route, and they asked the commission to prevent parking on the Tamachichi right of way. Staff pointed to a condition (adopted by commission) that no parking on Tomachichi right of way be permitted and said public works and GDOT review would cover construction‑phase traffic. Commissioners discussed limiting truck sizes and including measures that would prevent the site from becoming a truck thoroughfare.
Staff recommended multiple conditions: AKB overlay compliance on materials/landscaping; final civil and structural plan review; no truck terminal or truck stop at the gas station; repair garage and public garage uses not permitted; and that the final site plan not vary significantly from the rezoning concept (especially the gas station location). Commissioners approved both rezonings with staff conditions; applicants asked for clarity allowing diesel pumps at the station and for interior repair uses, and staff and the commission clarified that diesel pumps were acceptable but exterior public repair operations would not be permitted.
The planning commission’s approval is a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners, which will consider the matter on May 22.
