Restaurants, office, retail and a new gas station might be coming to Castleberry Road
Howdy, I am Luke Crawford, I live in Cumming close to Sawnee Mountain and like to keep my neighbors up to date with what is happening in our county.
On June 9th, Abernathy Development Company submitted a re-zoning request (ZA4134) to re-zone 16.944 acres of land at the corner of Castleberry Road and Bethelview Road to build 56,859 sqft. of restaurant, retail, and office buildings. In addition, their application requests two conditional use permits to build a 5,300 sqft gas station that would conduct around-the-clock business.
The applicant also requested three variances. The first is to increase parking from 470 to 685 spaces. The second is to reduce the minimum setback from dedicated right of way from 40 feet to 20 feet and the third is to reduce the minimum landscape strip between internal boundary lines from 10 feet to 0 feet.
Abernathy Development Company is based in Lawrenceville, Georgia. According to their website, “Abernathy Development Specializes in retail development centered around destination-driven end users. We strive to deliver the highest quality of service possible to a select number of retail, restaurant, entertainment and automotive end users by carefully listening to their criteria of site selection and demographic needs. This service comes through 40 years and Seven million square feet of retail development projects and experience throughout most of the Southeastern United States. Today we are focusing our energy and efforts on the major metro markets and high growth suburban markets that are trending upwards in population growth and income growth. This will allow our clients the opportunity to grow sales organically as the demographics grow alongside their locations.”
The Forsyth County informal staff review was non-supportive of this request based on variance one, this variance was a request to increase the maximum number of parking spaces from 470 to 685.
This application is currently in progress and will still need to go before both the planning commission and the board of directors before being approved.
