South Fulton zoning board approves sign, buffer and setback variances for 5746 Campbellton Road development

The South Fulton Zoning Board of Appeals on April 17 approved variances for a commercial portion of a mixed‑use development at the corner of Campbellton Road and Camp Creek Parkway (case V24‑014, property address listed as 5746). Staff recommended approval.

The applicant requested multiple variances to accommodate a commercial pad along Campbellton Road and visibility from Camp Creek Parkway. The board approved relief from the city’s sign regulations (table 7‑2): increasing the permitted freestanding sign face from 32 square feet to 150 square feet and increasing maximum sign height from 8 feet to 40 feet. The application also sought reductions to required landscape and buffer widths: reducing a 25‑foot landscape strip along Campbellton Road to 10 feet, reducing a 40‑foot natural buffer along Camp Creek Parkway to 15 feet, and eliminating a 10‑foot improvement setback along Camp Creek Parkway.

Attorney Hakeem Hilliard, representing Hutch Development, said the project was rezoned in 2022 as a mixed‑use development that includes for‑sale housing, rental townhomes and roughly 37,000 square feet of retail approved for the portion now before the board. He said the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and the Atlanta…