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Smyrna council approves rezoning for 13 townhomes at Cooper Lake with conditions
Summary
After a public hearing with residents split, Smyrna Mayor and Council unanimously approved rezoning Z-25-011 to allow 13 rear-entry townhomes near Cooper Lake Road, adding conditions including setbacks, crosswalks and a material-mix stipulation limiting Hardiplank on end units.
Smyrna Mayor and Council on Oct. 20 unanimously approved a rezoning request (case Z-25-011) to allow 13 townhomes on a roughly 2-acre parcel at the corner of Cooper Lake Road and North Cooper Lake Road.
The vote came after a presentation from city planning staff and a public hearing in which nearby residents raised safety and traffic concerns while other residents and the applicant argued the townhomes are a suitable step-down from the site’s existing limited-commercial zoning. Councilman Scott Welch moved approval; Councilman Gould seconded. The motion included additional stipulations agreed during discussion and passed unanimously.
City planner Joey Stobbs told the council the applicant, ARC1 Construction, sought to rezone the site from limited commercial to "TD conditional" for 13 rear-entry townhomes at a density the staff calculated as 6.44 units per acre. Stobbs said the parcel has a constrained developable area because of a 20-foot sanitary sewer easement at the front and a flood plain at the rear. He…
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