Variance sought for corner lot at Aberdeen Parkway and Northlake Drive

Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:19pm
By: Cal Beverly

Nearly pristine Aberdeen Parkway is about to become a little less pristine.

Peachtree City has approved only the second curb cut ever allowed onto thickly wooded Aberdeen Parkway for an 11,000-square-foot office building planned for the southwest corner of the eastbound parkway’s intersection with Northlake Drive.

The driveway will have an effect on the city’s normally rigid buffer regulations, specifically the normal requirement for an undisturbed 50-foot buffer along Aberdeen Parkway.

The curb cut “will require the removal of the majority of existing vegetation within this area,” according to a staff memo on the subject.

The City Council will consider a buffer variance and two other variances for the property at its meeting Thursday night.

Prior to the newly-approved right-in, right-out curb cut, only the huge Dolcé Conference Center (built as a Pitney-Bowes training center in the mid-1980s) had even a single driveway access to the signature parkway in Peachtree City.

Now there will be two, including the new one for Northlake Woods office building, which will abut the historic Whitlock family cemetery next to Aberdeen Shopping Center on its south side and Westpark Court on its west side.

The site also will have another curb cut nearby on Northlake Drive, according to the staff memo.

The office building owners also are seeking variances from City Council to reduce the required 10-foot landscape strip along the rear of the property to 5 feet and to reduce the required number of parking spaces from 44 to 36.

City staff said in the memo to the City Council that it supports approval of all three variances.

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