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Council approves rezoning for 21-home development on Spalding Drive with traffic and HOA conditions
Summary
The Sandy Springs City Council unanimously rezoned five parcels on Spalding Drive from RE1 to RD9 to permit a 21-home detached neighborhood, attaching conditions including entrance alignment at Pitts Road, underground stormwater facilities, minimum lot sizes, site-plan similarity and HOA maintenance of buffers and fences.
The Sandy Springs City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance rezoning five parcels at 1265–1369 Spalding Drive from RE1 (one-acre minimum) to RD9 (9,000-square-foot minimum), clearing the way for a 21-home single-family detached subdivision.
Planning and zoning manager Michelle McIntosh Ross told the council staff and the planning commission recommended approval with conditions designed to preserve the neighborhood character and require infrastructure protections. Conditions include placing the new subdivision entrance at the Pitts Road/Spalding Drive signalized intersection, two underground stormwater detention facilities whose surface areas become usable amenity space, an average lot-size minimum within the Sandy Springs portion of at least 10,500 square feet, parking restrictions for construction vehicles onto the subject site only, and that development be substantially similar to the site plan provided to council.
Applicant representatives said they had met repeatedly with neighbors and revised the plan accordingly, adding a left-turn lane and a double row of evergreens and a 6-foot privacy fence to buffer adjacent properties. Alex Brock, representing the Providence Group of Georgia, told the council the plan includes traffic-study recommendations and accommodations for future right-of-way expansion.
Several nearby residents, including Melinda Cobb and Rhonda Smith of the Spalding Springs neighborhood, spoke in support while stressing that turn-lane installation and traffic mitigation be required as part of approval. Councilmember John Paulson moved approval and explicitly added two clarifications to the motion: a condition that the homeowners association maintain exterior fencing and landscape buffers, and that the approved ordinance be substantially similar to the submitted site plan including the turn-lane layout and directional arrows. Planning staff said the site plan and arrows would be attached to the ordinance.
Council members discussed the cross-jurisdictional aspect with nearby Dunwoody parcels and affirmed a separate condition limiting access from the Dunwoody side to no more than three homes. The motion passed on a voice vote.
Next steps: the attached conditions and site plan will be incorporated into the ordinance and recorded with the final plat and development review process.
