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Commission recommends approval for Summit Heating & Air move and contractor-office use at 462–480 Roswell Street
Summary
The planning commission recommended rezoning to allow Summit Heating & Air to occupy 462 and 480 Roswell Street with an additional contractor-office use, attaching landscaping, screening and architecture conditions volunteered by the applicant.
The Marietta Planning Commission recommended approval on May 29 of a rezoning request for 462 and 480 Roswell Street that would retain CRC (Community Retail Commercial) zoning but permit an additional use as a contractor’s office for Summit Heating & Air.
Attorney Adam Rosen, representing Alice Holdings LLC and Summit Heating & Air, described the proposal as keeping the property in CRC while adding a contractor use to allow the longstanding local business to relocate. Rosen told commissioners the company has operated in Marietta for more than a decade and emphasized the applicant’s interest in preserving and improving the site’s landscaping and public frontage. He said the applicant volunteered to have architectural plans approved by council as a condition of approval.
Owners Tim and Jen Willis, who attended and spoke to the commission, described Summit as a locally rooted business with roughly 4,000 customers concentrated within a five-mile radius, and said their intent is to renovate the building to make it “an homage” to the city’s character rather than an industrial storefront. Tim Willis said: “When you drive by it, when we’re done with it, our intention would be for someone to say, I cannot believe or I am so surprised that this is a heating and air company.”
Commissioners asked about materials and whether materials and equipment would be stored outside. Tim Willis replied that materials will be stored inside the building and that only a small number of company vehicles would be kept behind a proposed fence and out of street view. The applicant stated dumpsters and a scrap-metal container would be located toward the rear of the site and largely unseen from Roswell Street due to the slope and fencing.
The applicant presented a revised site plan and architectural renderings, proposed street trees where missing and committed to supplemental buffering where existing vegetation would be preserved where feasible. The commission approved the motion to recommend the rezoning with the variances and conditions discussed; the recommendation will go to city council for final action.
The commission’s recommendation was recorded as its advice to council; final legal authority to adopt zoning and any binding architecture conditions rests with the City Council.
