June 12, 2008
www.northfulton.com
The developers of Ivy Falls Office Condominium Park on Medlock Bridge in Johns Creek are fine with their zoning classification, they just want more density.
DWP Ivy Falls, LLC presented its case before the Johns Creek Community Association on June 5. The project currently includes plans for three more buildings on the O-I (Office-Institutional) designated site, all of which are presently approved at two stories each with a maximum density of 10,275 square feet of gross floor area per acre zoned. The total square footage of what is currently zoned is 77,535.
However, that's not enough space, according to DWP representative, Woody Galloway.
The company is requesting just over 20,000 square feet of additional space on the project. And, while the new site plan will look "virtually identical" to what was originally approved, the developers are looking up. New plans call for one of the proposed buildings to include three stories and another to include four stories with a 20-space parking garage built underneath.
"Because of the fact that the property [slopes downward] from south to north the [four story] building will only be [nine] feet higher than the existing two-story structure located in the corner of the property," said Galloway, who also noted that the city's new proposed comprehensive plan does project four story heights for the area surrounding the office park in the future.
One resident at the meeting questioned whether any additional road cut-ins would create additional traffic on Parsons Road, but developers assured her that no more cut-ins would be constructed and the density impact would be minimal since parking spaces at the office park had been overbuilt in the original plan.
Another resident still had concerns about a look of consistency along 141 and wished to further discuss plans with DWP at a later community meeting.
The project will go before the Johns Creek Planning Commission on July 1. If given the final go-ahead by the city later this year, construction is expected to commence in December 2008.
For more information on the project, call 678-892-1705 or e-mail info@ivyfalls.net.
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