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Applicant seeks rezoning at 11300 Johns Creek Parkway to allow two private colleges
Summary
At a Johns Creek public participation meeting, the applicant for RZ-25-0002 asked to rezone a nearly 2-acre property at 11300 Johns Creek Parkway from M-1A to ONI to allow two private colleges to occupy two tenant suites; the applicant also requested variances to reduce required parking and to allow existing parking to encroach into setback areas.
Ruchi Agarwal, planning and zoning manager for the City of Johns Creek Community Development Department, opened a public participation meeting on rezoning case RZ-25-0002 for property at 11300 Johns Creek Parkway.
Alex Brock, a representative with Smith Cambrel Russell lehi speaking on behalf of the applicant and owner JWG, presented the request to rezone the roughly 2-acre site from M-1A (Industrial Park District) to ONI (Office Institutional District) so two private colleges can occupy two tenant suites in an existing one-story office building.
The applicant is not proposing physical redevelopment of the site. Brock said the building is approximately 17,000 square feet divided into four tenant suites; two suites would be occupied by the colleges, one is currently leased to a financial tenant and one would remain vacant for potential future use or expansion.
As part of the rezoning application, the applicant requested two variances. Ruchi Agarwal identified the variance codes as VC-25-10 (a request to reduce required parking from 78 spaces to 60) and VC-25-11 (a request to allow existing parking to encroach into the minimum front yard and side-corner yard setbacks). Brock said the change from M-1A to ONI alters setback requirements (from 30 feet to 40 feet) and causes portions of the existing parking to encroach under the new standard, though he emphasized "nothing on the property will change visibly."
Brock also described the applicant's parking rationale: the college use would nominally increase the code-required parking to 78 spaces, but the site currently contains 60 spaces. He said the institutions "anticipate between 30 to 40 students and teachers, faculty on-site, at one time at the most," and that the existing tenant typically has about five cars on site each day.
Brock provided details on the prospective tenants. He identified Virginia University of Integrative Medicine as a nonprofit institution accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, noting it operates campuses in Virginia, New Jersey and a campus in Duluth, Georgia; he described Ivy College as TRACS-accredited and authorized by the Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission to offer baccalaureate and associate degrees. Both institutions would occupy the two suites if the rezoning and variances are approved.
The live-streamed portion of the meeting concluded after Brock's presentation; Agarwal announced the session would proceed to an in-person question-and-answer period. No formal votes or decisions were taken during this public participation meeting.
Next steps: the presentation materials and contact information were provided for follow-up; the transcript records only the live presentation and an announced Q&A to follow, not the results of any formal hearing or administrative decision.
