Monthly Newsletter

January 2024

Artificial Intelligence


Come to ECCA's January Meeting and learn what AI is all about and how it may affect you in the future.


Renee Ducre, visiting Professsor at Emory University, has worked with the Quantitative Methods Department at Emory creating a new course designed to teach skills needed by Data Analytics and business executives.

ECCA wishes everyone a healthy and prosperous year ahead!


ECCA welcomes its newly elected Board of Directors for 2024: Ben Alper, Jacquelyn Bettadapur, Chris Ensley, Jill Flamm, Len Greski, Richard Grome, Karen Hallacy, Helga Hong, and Chris Lindstrom.


ECCA Activities

2024 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND FUTURE LAND USE AMENDMENTS


The Cobb 2040 Comprehensive Plan provides guidance to future growth and development within the county. The Comprehensive Plan is mandated by the Georgia Planning Act (Georgia Law 1989, pp. 1317-1391). A 5-year update was completed and adopted in 2022. Now it is time for small amendments to be made. This approach aids analysis and evaluation of the future growth of a community and its future land use. 

 

ECCA has reviewed the 2024 Comprehensive Plan draft proposal and provided Cobb County Staff our recommendations including that the development of the Johnson Ferry/Shallowford Road intersection, North Point Ministries, Inc. project Z-72 (2020), be updated in the plan. This has now been included in the latest draft. 

Zoning, Variances, and OBIs

ECCA ZONING ACTIVITY


Past Zoning, Variance, and OBI Updates


Board of Commissioners Zoning Hearing, December 19, 2023:


Z-49 2023 (GUTHRIES): 4774 Lower Roswell Road (next to the CVS on Johnson Ferry and Lower Roswell). Intent to change zoning in order to build a drive-through only, fast food restaurant (Guthries). The property is located on a tract size of 0.317 acres.


ECCA’s major concern was having a back-up of cars onto Lower Roswell Road. ECCA recommended that a traffic study be completed and analyzed prior to a vote by the Commissioners. DOT told the Commissioners that they had analyzed the completed traffic study and believed that Guthrie’s would not impair Lower Roswell Road traffic.

COMMISSIONERS: APPROVED Z-49   5-0


OB-67 2023 (CLOSED WALGREEN’S): 3033 Johnson Ferry Road/Waterfront Drive. Applicant, NPS Ventures, LLC, proposed a Settlement of Litigation regarding Cobb County Superior Court Case No. 23 102 242 (NPS Ventures, LLC v. Cobb County et al.) regarding case OB-65 of 2022. The applicant proposed a compromise with regard to the allowed NRC uses as well as other stipulations in a “Settlement and Compromise Communication” letter dated November 21, 2023.

 

ECCA recommended that the BOC not approve the “Settlement and Compromise Communication” letter dated November 21, 2023 without changes.

 

Commissioners accepted the “Settlement and Compromise Communication” letter with minor modifications and allowed restaurants with drive through service and child care centers be permitted uses but would require a traffic study.

COMMISSIONERS: APPROVED OBI-67  3-2


ECCA COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Adopt-a-Mile


ECCA - Next Adopt a Mile

Sat, January 20, 10:00-11:00

Publix on Woodlawn

1100 Johnson Ferry Rd

We had a very good turnout in October and collected 6 bags of trash to keep Cobb Beautiful! Please mark you calendars for January 20!


Join ECCA for litter pick-up along Johnson Ferry Road. The more people there, the more fun we have.


Please bring gloves!

Community service hours can be logged for all interested students and scouts.

“Bring One for the Chipper”


This annual Christmas tree recycling program runs from December 26, 2023 through January 6, 2024. This is an opportunity to recycle your Christmas tree into mulch for park projects, lake projects, and soil erosion. Please remove all ornaments. 


The locations in our area include:

·      4101 Roswell Road NE, Marietta, GA 30062

·      3605 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, GA 30066

·      449 Roberts Court NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144




Dates to Note:


  • Saturday, January 20, 10:00 - 11:00: ADOPT-A-MILE. Meet at the Publix parking lot at Woodlawn and Johnson Ferry Road.


  • Wednesday, January 31, 7:00 pm: NEXT ECCA GENERAL MEETING, Fuller's Park Recreation Center, 3499 Robinson Road, Marietta, GA. Please look for the signs.



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