At that meeting, elected officials will decide if the city planning commission is correct in approving the development of a maximum 12 homes per acre in some areas and eight homes per acre in others. The density decision is crucial to the city's proposed multimillion-dollar redevelopment plan for Downtown.
Area brokers who attended the last public hearing tell GlobeSt.com. residents fear allowing too many homes per acre will usher in land speculators who will buy up lots and homes and further increase the density in and around Woodstock, 30 miles north of Downtown Atlanta. Many area homes are located on one-, two- and five-acre tracts.
Consultants urging the city to consider higher-density development point to other established intown Atlanta neighborhoods inside the Interstate 285 boundary such as Inman Park and Virginia-Highland which allow about eight homes per acre. The typical lot size ranges from 35 feet wide by 100 feet to 50 feet by 100 feet.
The Woodstock redevelopment plan would rezone a rectangular area 1.5 miles wide and two miles long. The district would stretch from Interstate 575 on the west side of Woodstock to Springfield Drive and the intersection of Dobbs Street with Arnold Mill Road.
Area brokers tell GlobeSt.com the city hopes its redevelopment program will complement Hedgewood Properties' $75-million, 37-acre mixed-use neighborhood of offices, shops, single-family house, townhomes and condominiums already under construction Downtown.
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