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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before August 8. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Where: 2095 W. Park Court, Stone Mountain
What: Mountain East Business Park
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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before July 11. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Where: 4850 Stone Mountain Highway, Lilburn
What: Tidal Wave Carwash
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The following actions were taken by the Gwinnett County Planning Commission at their meeting on Tues., June 17, 2008. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Denied without prejudice: A requested rezoning from office-institutional district to general business district to allow 56,900 square feet of a shopping center and hotel on 4.54 acres east of Dekalb County and south of Stone Mountain Highway. The property is at the 2400 block of West Park Place Boulevard, 2200 block of Rockbridge Road. The applicant and owner is A. Omotayo Idowu, Tucker.

Denied: A requested special-use permit on a 0.87-acre parcel zoned general business district to allow a 7,655-square-foot dog kennel/pet day care facility. The property is located at the 2000 block of Westside Court just off Stone Mountain Highway in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay district. The applicant is T-P Land, LLC., Grayson and the owner is Donald Bohne, Tucker.

Tabled until Aug. 19: Two requested special-use permits to allow a 120,075-square-foot, four-story, self-storage facility on a 1.08-acre parcel zoned general business district. The property is located at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road in the U.S. Highway 78 Overlay District. The applicant is Rockbridge Self Storage, LLC., Lawrenceville and the owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain.

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DEVELOPMENT PERMITS ISSUED - The following are development permits issued by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before June 6. Development permits allow the developer to clear and grade the land, but it does not give the go-ahead for building the structure. This is a partial listing edited for our community.

Where: 2188 Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain
What: K Minter Office renovation

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DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS - The following are development permits received by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before May 23. Developers have submitted plans for these sites but have not received the Planning and Development Department’s authorization to begin clearing the land.

Where: 1100 block Garner Road, Lilburn
What: Garner Creek at Parkview recreation area

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DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS - The following are development permits received by the Gwinnett Planning and Development Department on or before May 16. Developers have submitted plans for these sites but have not received the Planning and Development Department’s authorization to begin clearing the land.

Where: 4000 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lilburn
What: New Mercies Christian Church

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Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Public Hearing Agenda for Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The following is a partial list edited for our community.

2008-0441 RZC-08-058, Applicant: A. Omotayo Idowu, Owner: A.
Omotayo Idowu, O-I to C-2, Commercial Retail Uses (Reduction in
Buffers), District 6 Land Lot 058 Parcel 018, 2400 Block of West Park
Place Boulevard and the 2200 Block of Rockbridge Road, 4.54 Acres,
District 3/Beaudreau(Tabled on 4/22/2008)(Public hearing was not
held)[Planning Department Recommendation: Deny][Planning
Commission Recommendation: Tabled - Date: 06/17/2008]

2008-0558 CIC-08-016, Applicant: Vesmont Nash Preserve, LLC,
Owner: Vesmont Nash Preserve, LLC, to Change Conditions of Zoning
for Property Zoned R-100 CSO, District 6 Land Lot 089 Parcels 001 and
002, 3600 Block of Five Forks Trickum Road, 74.88 Acres, District
3/Beaudreau[Planning Department Recommendation: Approve with
Conditions][Planning Commission Recommendation: Approve with
Conditions]

2008-0559 SUP-08-050, Applicant: Vesmont Nash Preserve, LLC,
Owner: Vesmont Nash Preserve, LLC, for a Special Use Permit in a R-100
Zoning District to Allow a Single-Family Conservation Subdivision,
District 6 Land Lot 088 Parcel 101, 3600 Block of Five Forks Trickum
Road, 3.0 Acres, District 3/Beaudreau[Planning Department
Recommendation: Approve with Conditions][Planning Commission
Recommendation: Approve with Conditions]

2008-0562 SUP-08-039, Applicant: Pawnmart, Inc, Owner: Rehan and
Saima Syed, for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 Zoning District to Allow a
Pawn Shop, District 6 Land Lot 053 Parcel 123, 3700 Block of Stone
Mountain Highway, 0.58 Acres, District 3/Beaudreau[Planning
Department Recommendation: Approve with Conditions][Planning
Commission Recommendation: Deny]

2008-0566 SUP-08-043, Applicant: Rockbridge Self Storage, LLC,
Owner: Noorallah Alimohammed, for a Special Use Permit in a C-2
Zoning District to Allow a Self-Storage Facility (Climate Controlled),
District 6 Land Lot 060 Parcel 009, 5300 Block of Stone Mountain
Highway and the 1900 Block of Rockbridge Road, 1.08 Acres, District
3/Beaudreau[Planning Department Recommendation: Approve with
Conditions][Planning Commission Recommendation: Tabled - Date:
06/17/2008]

2008-0568 SUP-08-049, Applicant: Rockbridge Self Storage, LLC,
Owner: Noorallah Alimohammed, for a Special Use Permit in a C-2
Zoning District to Allow a Building Height Increase to Four Stories,
District 6 Land Lot 060 Parcel 009, 5300 Block of Stone Mountain
Highway and the 1900 Block of Rockbridge Road, 1.08 Acres, District
3/Beaudreau[Planning Department Recommendation: Approve with
Conditions][Planning Commission Recommendation: Tabled - Date:
06/17/2008]

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ZONING CASES - ACTION TAKEN: The following action was taken by the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners on May 13, 2008

Tabled to June 17: A requested rezoning from office-institutional to commercial for 4.54 acres west of Snellville to be developed as a retail shopping center and hotel. The property is at the 2400 block of West Park Place Blvd. and the 2200 block of Rockbridge Road. The applicant and owner is A. Omotayo Idowu, Tucker. RZC-08-058

Table to June 17: Requested special-use permits for 1.08 acres west of Snellville to allow a four-story, climate-controlled self-storage facility. The property is at the 5300 block of Stone Mountain Highway and the 1900 block of Rockbridge Road. The applicant is Rockbridge Self-Storage, Lawrenceville, and owner is Noorallah Alimohammed, Stone Mountain. SUP-08-043, SUP-08-049

Deny: A requested special-use permit for .58 acres west of Snellville to allow a pawn shop. The property is at the 3700 block of Stone Mountain Highway. The applicant is Pawnmart, Inc., Norcross, and the owners are Rehan and Saima Syed, Lawrenceville. SUP-08-039

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By Michael Pearson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/13/08

A proposed hotel and retail complex in Gwinnett’s Park Place community near Stone Mountain likely won’t be considered by the Planning Commission tonight as originally planned.

A representative of the developer has asked commissioners to delay consideration of the project for a couple of months.

Planning Commissioner Chuck Warbington, whose district includes the project, said he is “leaning toward” postponing consideration of the project but will not make up his mind until tonight.

The commission typically agrees with district commissioners’ requests on such issues.

If the hearing is delayed as expected, Greg Sportsman of the Hobgood Group said he and others involved in the project hope to continue meeting with residents to work out a plan they can get behind.

Numerous residents told Sportsman two weeks ago that the 80-room, high-end hotel and retail complex at Rockbridge Road and West Park Place Boulevard was a poor choice for the area, which backs up to a subdivision.

Others believe there’s room to modify the proposal to create a development more amenable to residents.

Sportsman said ideas range from expanding the landscaping buffer behind the property, to adding walking paths to make the pro- ject more accessible to nearby residents, to eliminating the hotel entirely.

He said he wanted the delay to allow more time to meet with residents.

The project will be given a new hearing date at the Planning Commission meeting, which starts at 7 tonight.

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ADMIN Note: The following information was provided by a member of our community and is intended for informational purposes only. The sole desire is to provide pertinent information regarding our surrounding communities for you to use as you wish.

This is in regards to establishing a CVS on the corner of Killian Hill and Arcado. There was a meeting a couple weeks ago, hundreds showed up, but the vote was tabled until this month. The lawyer for the builder says it WILL happen. I hope not! We don’t need another place to buy medicine and sodas! Especially not on that corner.

- Citizens For Healthy Progress

WEAR ORANGE to show community support.

From Nancy Kenny, Nantucket Resident and former Planning Commission member:

I think it well said and puts an exclamation point to the need for all of us to stay watchful.

“I spoke with Lilburn’s planner and he had met with the applicants regarding the rezoning. I asked what they were changing and he said they were adding some walks and benches plus trees to make the project more green and more user friendly. The CVS will stay as it is the “most important part of the project” and the huge reduction in buffers also will have to stay as without them the whole thing is not workable. I am never for reducing buffers between differing zonings so would definitely not have voted for this when I was on the Planning Commission. We must show up and voice our opposition”.

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By Michael Pearson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/02/08

Park Place may be a good spot for a hotel in Monopoly, but to residents of Gwinnett County’s Park Place community it’s no such thing.

A developer wants to build a three-story Ramada-brand hotel and separate retail center topped by condos at the corner of Rockbridge Road and West Park Place Boulevard, just south of U.S. 78.

Traffic concerns top the list of complaints, but residents also worry the project would ruin views of nearby Stone Mountain, decrease property values and add more commercial inventory to an area that already suffers from significant vacancies in existing strip centers.

“We’re holding on with the hope that Gwinnett County would do what it said it was going to do and revitalize,” Rebecca Heitkam said. “This is the exact opposite of that.”

Heitkam and other residents who attended a community meeting on the proposal Wednesday night said the project is simply more of the same commercial development that already exists in the area. In many cases, those storefronts are empty.

Moreover, the project is located in an area that will adversely impact residents of the Rockbridge Acres subdivision, which backs up to the site, and other nearby neighborhoods, they said.

But Greg Sportsman of Hobgood Construction Group, which is managing the project, said there’s nothing in the area like the mixed-use proposal, which he said is modeled on Suwanee Town Center.

“We’re trying to do everything we can to make this something that will blend in with the community instead of standing in stark contrast,” he said.

Sportsman said the project design calls for a six-foot berm and 15-foot-tall trees to screen views of the buildings from Rockbridge Acres properties behind it.

The hotel would include 80 rooms, a full-service restaurant and meeting space that could accommodate weddings and other events, Sportsman said.

The two-story retail building would include condos priced at about $200,000 on the top level, he said.

He also said the project team is willing to accept conditions to forbid businesses objectionable to residents, as well as even more significant changes to the plan if that’s what residents want.

“If we put up something you guys don’t like, it’s not going to be successful,” he told residents.

Frances Smith, president of the Park Place Community Association, said she worries what might happen if residents run the developer off. The land is zoned for office and institutional use and residents would have little input if the site were targeted for such a project.

But there’s no question the project is a bad fit for the specific piece of land it’s being proposed for, she said.

“We need that kind of development, maybe even bigger, in one of the blighted areas. We need that closer to the mountain, not backing up to a residential neighborhood that obviously wants nothing to do with it,” she said.

The project is scheduled to be heard by the Planning Commission on May 13, but it is not uncommon for proposals facing significant community opposition to be delayed while developers and residents try to work out an agreement.

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By MICHAEL PEARSON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/01/08

Residents of Gwinnett County’s Park Place community in Stone Mountain aren’t interested in seeing a developer put a high-end hotel on vacant land near aging subdivisions.

About 50 people packed a small hotel meeting room Wednesday night to to oppose a plan to build a three-story Ramada brand hotel and a retail center topped by condos at Rockbridge Road and West Park Place Boulevard.

Resident Will Weston said one of the chief complaints is traffic. The area is often clogged with mile-long backups at rush hour as it is, he said.

“People just don’t want it,” he said.

Other complaints include ruined sight lines, decreased property values, adding more vacant commercial space to the area and the threat of sending an area already teetering on the edge of decline into a full death spiral.

Residents worry that adding more commercial space in the neighborhood could worsen conditions at existing shopping centers that already have vacancies, or make it difficult for the new project to succeed.

The 57,000-square-foot project is scheduled to go before the Planning Commission on May 13.

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GWINNETT JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER, AUDITORIUM
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008 AT 7:00 P.M.

CASE NUMBER :RZC-08-058
APPLICANT :A. OMOTAYO IDOWU
CONTACT :GREG SPORTSMAN
PHONE NUMBER :678.482.1581
ZONING CHANGE :O-I TO C-2
LOCATION :2400 BLOCK OF WEST PARK PLACE BOULEVARD :2200 BLOCK OF ROCKBRIDGE ROAD
MAP NUMBER :R6058 018
ACREAGE :4.54 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :COMMERCIAL
RETAIL USES :(REDUCTION IN BUFFERS)
SQUARE FEET :56,900 SQUARE FEET
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: DENIAL

CASE NUMBER :SUP-08-039
APPLICANT :PAWNMART, INC.
CONTACT :FRED J. STOKES
PHONE NUMBER :678.518.4341
ZONING :C-2
LOCATION :3700 BLOCK OF STONE MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY
MAP NUMBER :R6053 123
ACREAGE :0.58 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :PAWN SHOP
SQUARE FEET :5,040 SQUARE FEET
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS

CASE NUMBER :SUP-08-043
APPLICANT :ROCKBRIDGE SELF STORAGE, LLC.
CONTACT :R. LEE TUCKER, JR.
PHONE NUMBER :770.232.0000
ZONING :C-2
LOCATION :5300 BLK OF STONE MOUNTAIN HWY :1900 BLOCK OF ROCKBRIDGE ROAD
MAP NUMBER :R6060 009
ACREAGE :1.08 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :SELF-STORAGE FACILITY :(CLIMATE CONTROLLED)
SQUARE FEET :120,075 SQUARE FEET
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS

CASE NUMBER :SUP-08-049
APPLICANT :ROCKBRIDGE SELF STORAGE, LLC.
CONTACT :R. LEE TUCKER, JR.
PHONE NUMBER :770.232.0000
ZONING :C-2 LOCATION :5300 BLK OF STONE MOUNTAIN HWY :1900 BLOCK OF ROCKBRIDGE ROAD
MAP NUMBER :R6060 009
ACREAGE :1.08 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :BUILDING HEIGHT INCREASE TO 4 STORIES
SQUARE FEET :120,075 SQUARE FEET
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU DEPARTMENT
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS

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GWINNETT JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2008 AT 7:00 P.M.

CASE NUMBER :CIC-08-016
APPLICANT :VESMONT NASH PRESERVE, LLC.
CONTACT :LAWRENCE KASMEN
PHONE NUMBER :404.841.8910 EXT. 700
ZONING :R-100 CSO
LOCATION :3600 BLOCK OF FIVE FORKS TRICKUM ROAD
MAP NUMBER :R6089 001, R6089 002
ACREAGE :74.88 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURAL CONDITIONS
UNITS :123 UNITS
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS

CASE NUMBER :SUP-08-050
APPLICANT :VESMONT NASH PRESERVE, LLC.
CONTACT :LAWRENCE KASMEN
PHONE NUMBER :404.841.8910 EXT. 700
ZONING :R-100
LOCATION :3600 BLOCK OF FIVE FORKS TRICKUM ROAD
MAP NUMBER :R6089 101
ACREAGE :3.00 ACRES
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT :SINGLE-FAMILY CONSERVATION SUBDIVISION
UNITS :5 UNITS
COMMISSION DISTRICT :(3) BEAUDREAU
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS

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ZONING CASES - ACTION TAKEN: The following action was taken by the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners on April 22, 2008

Tabled to May 20: A requested rezoning from office-institutional to commercial for 4.54 acres south of Snellville to be developed as a shopping center and hotel. The property is at the 2400 block of West Park Place Boulevard and the 2200 block of Rockbridge Road. The applicant and owner is A. Omotayo Idowu, Tucker. RZC-08-058

Denied without prejudice: A requested rezoning from single-family residential to commercial for 1.47 acres south of Snellville to be developed as a shopping center. The property is at the 2900 block of Parkwood Road. The applicant and property owner are Billy and Brenda Ewing, Lawrenceville. RZC-08-048

Denied: A requested rezoning from low-density residential to office-institutional for .85 acres south of Snellville to be developed as cultural and community center. The property is at the 2300 block of Bethany Church Road. The applicant and the owner is Philippine American Center in Georgia, Lawrenceville. RZC-08-066

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