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Cobb County Studies Controversial Rezoning Application

ATLANTA-Olympia Development wants to create office space, retail and restaurants on a residential-zoned tract here. But opponents tell Cobb County officials the area needs more green space, not more commercial projects.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on February 09, 2004

ATLANTA-Land prices are rising and developers are striving to build more projects on smaller parcels, Cobb County commissioners will be told by a developer this month who is trying for the second time in three months to have its five-acre tract rezoned from residential to commercial.

Olympia Development Group wants to build an undetermined amount of office space, retail and restaurants on the tract at Dallas Highway and Kennesaw View Road. But opponents from nearby neighborhoods tell county officials the area needs more green space, not more commercial projects.

Commissioners tabled the rezoning request when it first came up in December. The commission previously rejected a comparable rezoning request from another developer at Dallas Highway and West Sandtown Road.

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