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Tuesday's
Tip
Buckhead
plan now residential
Office towers opposed in past
A Phipps Plaza site that pitted
a neighborhood against a developer in a dispute that ended up in the
Georgia Supreme Court is back at center stage.
This time,
Finger Cos., a Houston luxury apartment developer, plans 925 homes --
condos or apartments -- in three buildings at Phipps Boulevard and Lenox
Road.
The 9.4-acre
site near Ga. 400 was the subject of a 2001 state Supreme Court decision
that left land use regulation in city and county hands.
In 1997, TAP
Associates, an affiliate of Cobb County developer Pope & Land
Enterprises, filed plans to build two office towers, a hotel and 200 homes
at the site.
Residents
worried that office towers and a hotel would bring traffic and other
problems to old-growth Buckhead neighborhoods nearby, said David Dollar,
vice president of the North Buckhead Civic Association.
The city of
Atlanta denied zoning for the TAP Associates project, and the developer
sued.
A Fulton
County Superior Court agreed with the developer, but the state's high
court ruled the city was justified in trying to protect the
neighborhoods.
John Gray,
Finger's executive vice president, had no comment on the current project's
details, but site plans call for three buildings, two of them high-rise,
totaling more than 900 units.
The
development calls for 1.3 million square feet.
Finger will
present its plans to neighborhood groups in July, said Waldtraut Lavroff,
head of the neighborhood planning unit.
The project
needs city zoning approval, which could take months. Neighbors haven't
seen the specific plans, but a strictly residential project is a kind of
victory, Lavroff said.
Dollar agreed.
"Nobody is surprised it's going to be developed," he said of the site. "In
my opinion, 900 units will fit fairly well. ... That doesn't go against
the Supreme Court's decision. How can you argue?"
The 1997 plan
would have brought 5,000 cars, while Finger's new project would draw
2,100, plans show.
And traffic
has not been a problem at the other high-rise residential towers near
Phipps Plaza, Dollar said.
Finger, known
for upscale touches like marble counter tops, built the Phipps Place
apartments on Kingsboro and Lenox roads and Lindbergh Place off Lindbergh
Drive.
BYLINE: WALTER
WOODS
DATE: July 1, 2004
PUBLICATION: Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, The (GA)
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