The Cumming City Council recently OK’d plans for a 210-unit apartment complex on Ga. 20 near Forsyth Central High School — approving two variances sought by developer Charlie Roberts and a list of conditions set by the city.
The council signed off on Roberts’ request to increase the number of three-bedroom apartments in the Brookside Heights development from 10 to 21 percent of the mix while cutting one-bedroom units from 40 percent to 28.5 percent. Also approved was replacing tennis courts with a playground. City officials say Roberts wanted both changes as a way of attracting more longer-term residents.
Among conditions attached by the city were making the plan site-specific, meaning the developer can’t come back to seek further alterations. Others include sidewalk and landscaping mandates and preserving 14 acres at the front and east sides of the 37.6-acre tract as green space that could be developed into a future park.
The project is planned as a higher-end development with three-bedroom rentals initially running about $1,600 a month. There’s no timetable for construction, but the developer said he’d start clearing the property in the next month or so.
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