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Council approves Technology Park overlay; rezones Avamore PUD, removes planned residential
Summary
After several hours of public comment and questions from council, Villa Rica officials adopted a new Technology Park overlay and approved the Avamore planned-unit development rezoning and two annexations, subject to conditions that the PUD conform to the overlay and that previously approved residential units be removed.
Villa Rica’s City Council approved a text amendment creating a Technology Park overlay district and then voted to rezone and annex the Avamore property into an amended planned-unit development subject to that overlay.
The council adopted the overlay – language that defines permitted technology-oriented uses, new lot and buffering standards, noise and lighting rules and minimum lot sizes – by a 4-1 vote after a staff presentation by Interim City Manager Diana DiSanto. DiSanto told the council the overlay is intended “to promote the development of technology centers in areas of the city where existing or proposed infrastructure could adequately support the proposed uses.”
The vote on the Avamore rezoning followed. The applicant had owned an earlier Avamore PUD approval that allowed housing and mixed uses; the new application would bring roughly 204.5 acres (plus an additional 35.03-acre parcel included in…
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