Why we oppose townhomes at this location. 

• Adding excess traffic on La Dawn Ln when there's an alternative option to route traffic to Dunseath Ave via the Anne St right of way - thereby providing more direct access to a major road out of the neighborhood. (without adding additional traffic on La Dawn Ln)

• Squeezing 30-40 townhomes into the center of a neighborhood surrounded by single family homes interrupts the character, flow and connectivity of our neighbors. 

• A townhome community with an HOA is very different from detached single family homes. 

• Townhomes are being priced at nearly $700,000 which is double the value of neighboring single family homes. This will attract a very different kind of resident to the development and result in gentrification and destruction of the legacy neighborhood and comradery that currently exist. 

• This will force up property values of neighbors resulting in higher taxes. This will result is pushing fixed/lower income neighbors out of our neighborhood because they wont be able to pay the new taxes. 

• We already get daily phone calls / letters from speculators/developers who want to buy our properties.  

• The developer wants to convert Anne Street into a spur to the trail to connect his development to Westside Village (shopping center). He claims this adds value to our neighborhood that residents can use. This spur is not needed. We have side walks in close proximity that more directly connect our neighbors to the shopping center. The sidewalk along La Dawn better serves our neighbors than this spur could.  The spur trail would actually be a further distance to walk for our neighbors. 

• The spur would only benefit the residents of this new development to get to the shopping center; it would be an amenity that the developer can use to market the sale of townhomes and increase prices further. 

• Anne Street would better add value to our neighbors by serving as the vehicular access point to this property by diverting new/additional traffic off of La Dawn Ln and provide the property with more direct access to Marietta Blvd. 

• Anne Street is the only access to 1921 Anne Street (different owner). Converting the Anne Street Right of Way to a trail would cut off access to that lot and the lot owner and City will not agree to that.

• The development doesn't add any affordable housing which would be a benefit to the community at-large.

Both of the developer's site plans include: 

• 3 story town homes

• 2,000 sqft each

• Increased traffic on La Dawn LN 

• Egress onto La Dawn  Ln

• $600,000 price (nearly double that of historic homes) 

What's different? 

• Number of units decreased

• Square footage of each unit increased

• Zoning request was MR-3 originally, now PD-H 

Why did it change? 

• MR-3 was rejected by  both Bolton and NPU-D votes

• Amended application to PD-H for a 2nd chance

Neither proposal meshes with the neighborhood