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Council approves Mount Pisgah Christian School's 15-year phased expansion with conditions
Summary
After a planning commission recommendation and a series of community statements in support, the Johns Creek City Council approved a special-use permit allowing Mount Pisgah Christian School to expand its campus in phases over 15 years with required buffers, stormwater measures and phased traffic mitigations.
The Johns Creek City Council approved a special-use permit July 29 allowing Mount Pisgah Christian School to expand its campus onto an additional 21.515 acres in a phased plan that could extend up to 15 years. Director Song presented staff's recommendation and the planning commission's unanimous approval with one updated condition about materials.
The expansion covers a 45.988-acre site and includes two new academic buildings, a performing arts center, a natatorium, six outdoor tennis courts and ancillary parking and circulation improvements. Staff emphasized required protective screening: a 90-foot undisturbed buffer on one side and a 25-foot buffer along another, plus a 30-foot landscape strip along Nesbitt Ferry Road and additional stormwater management facilities. The proposal also includes a 10-foot-wide multiuse trail and a pedestrian bridge connecting the school parcels and a sequence of road-access improvements tied to each phase.
School representatives and neighbors—Curtis Hicks (head of the church community) and Chris Harmon (head of school)—outlined a phased fundraising-and-build approach and described measures to mitigate traffic and visual impacts. A Chartwell neighborhood representative, Paul Blessie, spoke in favor, saying the school had been a good neighbor.
Council members discussed traffic mitigation, LDP sequencing and the importance of phasing for ensuring that off-site improvements occur in step with on-site development. Director Song said multiple LDPs will likely accompany the phased development so the city can review traffic and stormwater controls as each phase arrives.
Council voted to approve the SUP with the conditions forwarded from the planning commission. The approval requires the applicant to implement the specified buffers, stormwater facilities, parking strategies and the staged roadway improvements spelled out in the staff report and conditions.
