Zoning Battle Ends in Victory

A zoning battle lasting one year ended Tuesday morning during the Cobb County Board of Commissioners zoning hearing when the Georgia House Rabbit Society (GHRS) received a permanent zoning of low-rise office.

The Society has operated the nonprofit shelter out of a two-story Shallowford Road residential home on a temporary land use permit granted by Commissioners in September.

"It had been a drug house. We bought it as a foreclosure. We thought, given advice by a friend, that we were zoned correctly to begin with," GHRS shelter manager Edie Sayeg told Northeast Cobb Patch on Tuesday. "There were people who opposed us being here, but we're grateful to the friends and neighbors who signed the petition and came to the zoning hearing to support us."

To celebrate Tuesday's victory, Society members distributed chocolate Easter bunnies to the commissioners and audience.

In another case, Brooks Chadwick Capital LLC applied for subdivision zoning. The 45 homes would be located at the corner of Mountain and Sandy Plains roads. Attorney Garvis Sams Jr., of the Marietta law firm Sams, Larkin & Huff said the minimum house size would be 3,100 square feet and each would have a price tag of about $300,000 to $400,000. About nine acres would be open space. The company has not yet decided on a builder, but is considering Ashton Woods, Traton Homes, or Lenar Homes.

The subdivision was approved 5-0.