Skip to main content

the city council voted against the rezoning so the plans for those townhomes are officially dead. im honestly blown away by how much this community stepped up to protect our neighborhood. we still need to keep an eye on what happens with that lot but for now we won.

May 5, 2015

Say NO to Ashford Park Rezoning!

Say NO to Ashford Park Rezoning!

🏆 Won — 221 supporters Verified

Final supporters

R
Rob C.
K
Kim J.
K
Katherine N.
J
John B.
K
Kristin R.
C
Cindy P.
J
Jenny T.
A
Andrea S.
D
Dan K.
S
Someone
+211 more
AP
Started by Ashford Park 11 years, 6 months ago
Redwood Contractors purchased a single-family home wanting to build 6 townhomes (paid $285k for 0.52 acre lot). The land must first be rezoned from the current single-family status its held since 1951. The mature treescape will then be replaced with asphalt and 3-story townhomes increasing runoff water, traffic, and noise. This development guts the Brookhaven-Peachtree Overlay District goals and guidelines including not being within 15ft of the sidewalk (they're over 90ft), no sidewalk pathways, not being pedestrian friendly, not facing the street, exceeding height limitations, and not providing proper pedestrian and landscape zones. The Brookhaven Planning Commission has already voted (5-2) to deny these townhomes and the BPCA is against these townhomes because they do not conform with the Overlay. This development also does not meet underlying zoning requirements to RM-100 (min 2 acres and 100ft street frontage).


Please help us preserve Ashford Park / Brookhaven by signing this petition against the rezoning! Redwood Contractors can easily build a new single family home on the property as there are numerous examples nearby. Please include your street address to show support throughout the neighborhood! Tuesday 4/21 7pm City Council meeting info below please attend to show support!

http://brookhavencityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=1335

Updates

Reached 100 supporters

March 2, 2015

83 Comments

T
Thomas Porter
11 years ago Featured

This is not better for the community overall, it only represents one entity's desire to profit at the expense of many.

R
Ruth Blackstock
11 years ago Featured

There is no need for this kind of rezoning / tree decimation / increase in asphalt and run off. The rezone does not keep in the character of the neighborhood, and needs to be denied categorically.

N
Nellie Navidi
11 years ago Featured

I am completely against the request for rezoning. I live off of Caldwell and there is already too much traffic on Caldwell. This will makes it worse! There is already excessive building going on in our neighborhood and replacing a home with 6 townhomes is a terrible idea! .

P
Phil Rogers
11 years ago Featured

Seems to me this property is more suited for single family homes and not townhouses. One of the things that's most disturbing is that the purchaser has made an assumption that they will be able to manipulate the zoning board into allowing the variance.

D
David Sewell
11 years ago Featured

Ashford Park is a neighborhood of single family homes and should stay that way. Townhomes are inappropriate per the B-P Overlay District Guidelines. This could just as easily be a developed as a single family home.

A
Amanda Sullivan
11 years ago Featured

This is a single-family home neighborhood, and should remain that way. Keep the high-density to Peachtree if you must! It is unfair to all those surrounding neighbors to destroy the quaint street they paid top-dollar to live on.

K
Kim Johnson
11 years ago

This would be crazy.

K
Kristin Rader
11 years ago

Please deny re zoning. My address is 1466 Sylvan Circle 30319