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Forsyth Park-area rezoning for mixed-use office and city-owned parking draws split response; first reading set for Jan. 9

Savannah City Council · December 19, 2024
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Summary

Council took first reading on a petition to change land-use and zoning for four parcels near Forsyth Park to allow a mixed-use office complex with an underground garage that the developer said would be deeded to the city; neighbors raised concerns about scale and construction impacts while the Victorian Neighborhood Association expressed conditional support.

A proposal to reclassify four parcels near Forsyth Park from traditional-neighborhood (TN1) to traditional-commercial (TC2) — enabling a developer’s plan for several office buildings over a subsurface parking garage — drew both neighborhood opposition and institutional support at a public hearing Dec. 19.

Harold Yellin, attorney for the petitioner, said the plan calls for three office buildings over an underground parking garage that, under a development agreement…

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