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Residents oppose request to cut required access points for 47-unit Evans Mill-area development
Summary
Developers asked to reduce the city's required access points from four to three for a proposed 47-unit residential project near Hunters Hill and Bramblewood. Residents told planners the change would worsen traffic and emergency access; the developer plans to appeal to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
A developer seeking a variance to reduce the city's required number of access points for a proposed 47-unit residential development faced sustained opposition from nearby Hunters Hill and Bramblewood residents at Stonecrest's Community Planning Information Meeting on Oct. 9.
Michelle Battle of Battle Law, the applicant's counsel, told staff the plan would add 47 units and that, when combined with adjacent subdivisions, the area would exceed the 300-unit threshold that triggers a four-access-point requirement. Battle said the team proposes access through Foxcroft Court and two Hunters Hill streets, and that an earlier plan to use Reynard Trail and Fox Den Trail was revised after the DeKalb County fire marshal objected.
"We are proposing to add an additional 47 units to the site," Battle…
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