ATLANTA-After reviewing a rezoning application for a proposed seniors condominium community for the third time in the last 18 months, Cobb County commissioners have rejected Marietta-based Palladian Inc.'s request in a 4 to 1 vote.

Neighborhood residents convinced commissioners the project's density didn't fit in with the surrounding subdivisions consisting largely of single-family homes on five-acre lots, residents attending the public hearing tell GlobeSt.com.

Palladian had planned to develop 10 four-unit buildings on a 9.3-acre tract on Old Canton and Robinson roads in east Cobb County. The condo homes would have sold for $300,000 to $400,000. Area construction sources tell GlobeSt.com the project's hard construction cost would have been in the $15 million range.

Cobb commissioners first studied the project briefly in July 2004 and again in October 2004, as GlobeSt.com previously reported. At that time, the county's planning commission denied the rezoning request outright. Palladian was asking the county to rezone seven acres for Grand Arbor, a planned seven-building 28-unit condo project at Bill Murdock and Sewell Mill roads, also in east Cobb County.

The density issue plagued the project from the start, area residents tell GlobeSt.com. Palladian's principals are registered architects Craig Wrigley and Patt Bittinger.

In an unrelated nearby rezoning issue, Gwinnett County planning commissioners voted 7 to 2 to deny an application from Ruby Forest Inc. which had planned a commercial subdivision on Oleander Drive.