Plans filed for Brookhaven Marta Redevelopment (Atlanta, Dunwoody: tenant, university, utilities)

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Thanks, GeorgiaPeanuts.

How much would an affordable 1 or 2 BR go for in one of these new projects?

1 br was normally 1700-2000; The affordable units were 1300 but mostly lower floors of the high-rise

[ATL Golfer]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

1 br was normally 1700-2000; The affordable units were 1300 but mostly lower floors of the high-rise

I need to raise my rents.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by ATL Golfer

I need to raise my rents.

Rents are definitely rising in Atlanta at a feral pace, but the transient population flocking in from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Boston and Seattle apparently aren't batting an eye. I suspect that the same thing is happening in Dallas and Houston.

[arjay57]

Sounds like it is not just MARTA apartments that Brookhaven has an issue with. They are getting hammered from all sides with apartment requests.

Who can blame them for wanting to tap the brakes a little?

The vote follows the Planning Commission’s vote to deny recommending approval three weeks ago of the request as well as the city staff’s recommendation the rezoning request be denied.

Terwilliger Pappas was seeking to rezone four tracts of land at the corner of Dresden Drive and Appalachee Drive to build Solis Dresden, a four-story apartment complex with a restaurant and retail on the ground floor.

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Councilmember Bates Mattison pointed out that Mayor John Ernst is seeking a six-month moratorium on high density development — a direct result of the backlash to the Solis Dresden project and another proposed and contentious project, Dresden Village, also on Dresden Drive. The Dresden Village rezoning request, which includes 194 apartments, is slated to go before the Planning Commission on Aug. 3.

Brookhaven City Council denies controversial Dresden Drive development - Reporter Newspapers

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Sounds like it is not just MARTA apartments that Brookhaven has an issue with. They are getting hammered from all sides with apartment requests.

Who can blame them for wanting to tap the brakes a little?

Last night, the Brookhaven Planning Commission voted to deny the application for an apartment-anchored mixed-use development, bowing to vocal neighborhood pressures opposed largely to the density of the proposal.

Brookhaven effectively quashes density near MARTA station - Curbed Atlanta

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Brookhaven effectively quashes density near MARTA station - Curbed Atlanta

Maybe someone else could answer this for me: does Brookhaven have a parking minimum? Perhaps, since part of their concern is with traffic, they aught to remove that, and instead put up a parking maximum? Especially within a certain range of the the station.

Then they could, in addition, have a entry fee for buildings going in (though not enough to keep them from going in) that would pay for sewage upgrades the buildings would be requiring from the county. Maybe on a per-unit basis.

If the developers still think they can get tenants, then let the units go in. Especially if they can get it done with, like, 10%-20% affordable units.


It just reads a lot like, at this point, Brookhaven is fighting the density, not the negative effects of density.

[arjay57]

This part I don't get.

However, the denial doesn’t mean the project won’t happen. The Atlanta City Council has the final say, and will vote on the project near the end of the month. Effectively, the Brookhaven Planning Commission indicated that if the applicant can come to the meeting of the city council with decreased density (the neighbors were pushing for 30 units per acre, or around 100 units total), there could be a big thumbs-up in the project's future.

Brookhaven effectively quashes density near MARTA station - Curbed Atlanta

Seems like these developers might get a better reception from the taxpayers if they came in with a proposal for 2BR and up condos. But that is just reading between the lines.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by arjay57

This part I don't get.

That is an error by Curbed.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Gulch

That is an error by Curbed.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

[wasel]

This developer is asking for higher density than what the MARTA TOD will be. The residents want it the other way around...highest density at the MARTA station, then the density transitions downward as you move away from Peachtree into the SF neighborhoods.