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Neighbors raise traffic and privacy concerns as developers seek variances for Derrick Road gas station
Summary
Monarch Equity Partners’ engineer presented plans for a gas station with 12 pumps, a convenience store, urgent care and quick-service retail at 4740 Derrick Road; neighbors objected to traffic, privacy and buffer reductions and asked staff to verify a city 3-mile proximity restriction for new gas stations.
Clemente Quijones, engineer of record for Monarch Equity Partners, on Jan. 5 presented a conceptual plan to rezone and develop 4740 Derrick Road in South Fulton as a commercial center anchored by a 12-pump gas station and attached convenience store, along with an urgent-care clinic, retail parcel and a quick-service restaurant. The application requests multiple variances, including removal of a 100-foot buffer tied to an adjacent Georgia Department of Transportation parcel and reductions to front and rear setbacks and a 35-foot landscape strip so a two-way road and parking can be constructed.
The proposal drew repeated objections from nearby residents. John McDay asked whether the development would be screened and what form the buffer would take; Quijones said the team expects either a green-screen planting or fencing and that trees on the north property (the DOT parcel) would remain untouched. “We are…
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