The Woodstock City Council Monday night approved plans for upgraded parking at the Outlet Shoppes of Atlanta, which mall officials say is needed for the holiday shopping season. The plan calls for what’s currently a gravel space to be improved to a striped, 272-space lot.
Council members also mandated the addition of dark-skies compliant lighting. A senior vice president of Horizon Group Properties said there had been no plans to add lighting to what will be primarily an employee overflow lot, because the mall is leasing the property and wants to limit making improvements that could be ripped out later. But Mayor Donnie Henriques and at least one other council member said safety needed to be a consideration.
The council also heard from a representative of the homeowner association board in a neighborhood adjacent to the lot, expressing concern about possible lighting and saying that neighborhood residents hadn’t had the opportunity to examine plans.
A Horizon official said the need for additional parking’s being driven by the planned opening of phase 2 of the mall in November, which will add several new stores.
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