24-acre mixed-use development seeks OK in Cobb (Atlanta, Roswell: 2015, home)

[hautemomma]

This development has been rejected.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by hautemomma

This development has been rejected.

Well, Cobb can continue to stagnate. Development is welcome in the city.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by jsvh

Well, Cobb can continue to stagnate. Development is welcome in the city.

They are building the same old SFH homes and low density, car centric development all over the county. Cumberland and Town Center is seeing multifamily development.

[primaltech]

Speaking as an ITP Cobb resident with an Atlanta address, I don't give a crap what kind of density levels they approve or not in the boring cookie cutter suburbs of West Cobb. They'll never have transit out there, and the area is so car-dependent that it will just add more traffic, so maybe they don't want the traffic.

No need to urbanize Dallas Hwy. Urbanization (development and improved and new transit to support it), should be occurring in Marietta proper, Smyrna proper, Cumberland, Town Center, Vinings, Mableton, the Atlanta Rd corridor, Powers Ferry area, and maybe a bit in East Cobb along Roswell Rd.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by cqholt

They are building the same old SFH homes and low density, car centric development all over the county.

A whole lot of people like that kind of living and not just in Cobb.

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[whodean]

Originally Posted by primaltech

Speaking as an ITP Cobb resident with an Atlanta address, I don't give a crap what kind of density levels they approve or not in the boring cookie cutter suburbs of West Cobb. They'll never have transit out there, and the area is so car-dependent that it will just add more traffic, so maybe they don't want the traffic.

No need to urbanize Dallas Hwy. Urbanization (development and improved and new transit to support it), should be occurring in Marietta proper, Smyrna proper, Cumberland, Town Center, Vinings, Mableton, the Atlanta Rd corridor, Powers Ferry area, and maybe a bit in East Cobb along Roswell Rd.

Here we go!. Congrats for being a rare CD poster who can forego hasty generalities

And LOL about Cobb stagnating, there's more of that rare jsvh humor!.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by whodean

And LOL about Cobb stagnating, there's more of that rare jsvh humor!.

Let me guess, this development just doesn't make the cut for the quality developments Cobb deserves unlike the "rampant uncontrolled growth" going on elsewhere?

[Atlwarrior]

When is Cobb County gonna repaved Windy Hill Road?

[DJDeadParrot]

Having spent only a little bit of time out that way a couple of years ago, I seem to recall that the Kennesaw Mtn Battlefield Park is something of a barrier to the denser development along hwy 120 west from Marietta Sq. With the exception of the commercial zone at 120 & Barrett Pkwy, that area looks like lower density than the other side of the Park

I don't recall what traffic was like on the 2 or 3 occasions I was over there. But, it seems to me that if Cobb County rejected the plans because they were too dense that they are making some effort to limit how much additional traffic that area sees.

[evannole]

Originally Posted by jsvh

24-acre mixed-use development seeks OK in Cobb Co.



Cobb thinks 58 senior homes and retail on 24 acres might be too dense? No wonder they are missing out on much of this development cycle.

If you ever came up that way, you'd discover that you are quite mistaken by generalizing so much. Cobb is a vast county. Many parts, like Marietta Square, Cumberland and Smyrna are absolutely booming. There's about $300M in new high end residential development going on right now within less than a mile radius from the Square, with more in the pipeline. East Cobb is largely built out and houses there are both too expensive and too new to be likely candidates for tear-down, so it's not surprising that there's less growth over that way.

Density is laudable in many cases but not always, particularly when the local infrastructure is not able to support it. Whitlock Avenue, which becomes Dallas Highway once it leaves the Marietta city limits, is a narrow (and, for much of its length, charming) two-lane road, and it gets pretty congested at rush hour. (I am glad to live on the east side of the Square and that I never have to go near Whitlock at rush hour.) The road isn't going to be significantly widened anytime soon (and that's the right decision) and they are putting new sidewalks in as we speak, which is a plus. Without some additional investment in transportation infrastructure, including transit, which I would support, a development like this just adds to the problem, high density or not.