Curbed Atlanta reports that a disputed condo project in the Eastside Trail area which is just northeast of downtown Atlanta is moving forward despite neighborhood opposition to a zoning change. The neighbors contend that the rezone violates the area's Comprehensive Development Plan, the Beltline’s Subarea 6 Masterplan, and the Virginia-Highland Masterplan.
Just south of Piedmont Park on the Beltline, Capital City aims to develop a 37-unit condo building, which would stand about seven stories and include a two-floor, partially buried parking deck.The developer wants the roughly .4-acre property, which currently houses a single-story building with live-work space and some retail, to be rezoned from a light industrial designation to one that allows for mixed-use development.
That would allow builders to bring the structure to the very borders of the property—a move the organized neighbors detest because, they contend, it would cramp neighboring residences and frustrate deliveries to places like Diversified Metal Fabricators next door. To complicate matters, Capital City has no plans to include any commercial space at the development.
Neighbors in opposition of the condo project are also concerned about parking deck plans that show an automobile entrance fronting the nearest Beltline access point. That would be unsightly and counterintuitive to the multi-use trail’s goal of encouraging alternate modes of transportation, opponents say.
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