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Planning commission tables Winslow Park PD amendment after staff finds plan "incompatible" with 2023 comprehensive plan
Summary
Athens-Clarke County planning staff recommended denial of a 944-unit amendment to the Winslow Park planned development, citing reduced mixed‑use character, loss of design principles and connectivity. The applicant asked for a table; the commission voted unanimously to table the item for up to 90 days.
Planning staff recommended denial Tuesday of a request to amend the Winslow Park planned development to allow 944 housing units, and the Athens‑Clarke County Planning Commission voted to table the application after hearing hours of staff and applicant presentations and discussion.
The project, covering roughly 200 acres at 4545–530 Atlanta Highway and 145 Bedgood Road and historically proposed as a mixed‑use traditional neighborhood, would reconfigure lots and internal streets and increase the approved unit count from 800 to 944. In a staff presentation, Steve Mahickweez, planning staff, said the current submittal ‘‘is incompatible with the 2023 comprehensive plan’’ and listed concerns about reduced housing variety, the decision not to build the originally intended neighborhood…
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