November 5th, 2025 meeting of the City of Johns Creek Planning Commission to order.

This time I'd like to ask everyone to please silence or turn off your cell phones.

The Planning Commission, as you probably know, is a recommending body to the mayor and the city council, and we follow guidelines in conjunction with the public hearing that assists in formulating a recommendation.

Copies of the Planning Commission procedures and staff reports are available at the entrance in the chamber at the back of this room.

The presiding officer, me, will call cases on the agenda for public hearing.

First, the presiding officer shall recognize the planning staff over here to make a presentation on the case with recommendations, and then we will open it to the public hearing.

The applicant shall receive a time period of 10 minutes to present their case.

If there is any concurrent variance, each shall be granted the applicant an additional 10 minutes.

The time is kept by the planning staff.

The applicant may choose to use their entire allotment or reserve a portion of their time for rebuttal.

Any member of the hearing body upon recognizing recognition, excuse me, by the presiding officer, may ask questions of the applicant or agent of the application.

The period of questions from the planning commission is not deducted from the applicant's time frame.

The opposition, if there is any, is granted an equal time period per the application to present data, evidence, and their opinions.

If a large number of people wish to speak in opposition, it is advisable to designate a spokesperson to make that presentation.

The city is not obligated to provide the full time period to opponents if they elect not to use their time and the and the opposition is not granted a rebuttal period.

Any member of the hearing body, upon recognition by the presiding officer, may ask questions of any person giving public comment.

After completing this process, the presiding officer shall indicate that the public hearing is closed.

Upon closing the public hearing, the planning commission will no longer be addressed by the applicant or opposition.

The planning commission may then ask questions of city staff.

Once all the questions have been asked and addressed, the presiding officer will call for a motion, and if it is properly seconded, will call for a vote on the matter.

The presiding officer will then state the vote and recommendation for the record.

I would also ask that everybody here act courteously and refrain from any outbursts or comments, you know, et cetera.

I would like to address uh recognize the commissioner's attendance starting on my left.

We have Commissioner Katzen, um Commissioner Ross is in route, she'll be here shortly.

Um Commissioner Holst.

Um we have Commissioner Jackson and Commissioner Horton on my right here.

So the first order of business on the agenda is approval of the last meeting that we had, which was October 7th.

Hope everybody's had time to read it.

I'll make them any questions or discussion.

Great.

So motion everybody in favor, say signify by aye.

Motion passes 4-0 with one abstention because she's not here yet.

All right.

The first order of business on the agenda is land use petition RZ-25-0002 with two conferrations two concurrent variances, VC-25-0010, and VC-25-001.

Ms.

Argerwall, you're on.

Good evening, everyone.

Um, my name is Ruchia Garval, and I'm the planning and zoning manager.

We'll be presenting tonight's zoning case, which is as the chair read, RZ-25-0002 with two concurrent variances.

The subject property is located at 1130 Johns Creek Parkway, and it is two two acres.

The existing zoning is M-1E, which is the industrial park zoning, which is our tech park zoning.

And the proposed zoning uh is OI, which is Office Institutional District.

The request is to allow for a private college to use existing office building with two concurrent variances.

The first variance is VC-25-0010, which is to reduce the required parking spaces from 77 to 60 spaces.

The second is VC-25-0011, which is to allow existing parking lots to encroach into the minimum front yard and site corner yard setbacks.

And we'll um talk about these variances uh further in the presentation.

So the subject property, as you can see uh on the screen, is bounded by the sorry, mounted by um the black outline here.

It's very close to the city hall, diagonally opposite the Lifetime Fitness, is bounded by Johns Creek Parkway to the west, Lakefield Drive to the north, and an undeveloped parcel, which is zone C1, right here at the square thing, to the south, and some commercial uses, zone C2, which is six bridges property, and the Johns Creek Event Center to the east.

Sorry, yeah, to the east.

Actually, to the south here, the way it's written.

So a little background on this property.

It's currently zoned M1-A, Industrial Park District, conditional, which is pursuant to Fulton County zoning case 1983 Z-0141.

And the use condition for that zoning case is the property is currently limited to engineering, research, and product development facilities and related operations, including office light assembly and fabrication and storage and distribution as accessory uses related to the operation of such facilities.

The subject property is one story building, 17,158 square feet.

60 parking spaces currently exist on the site.

There are two vehicular access points, one full access curb cut off of Flakefield Drive, and another one right in right out driveway off of Johns Creek Parkway.

The building is divided into four tenant suites, which is from 100, 200, 300, and 400.

And suite 200 is currently occupied by Cornerstone Financial Partners LLC, while the remaining three suites are vacant.

This is the site plan submitted by the applicant.

The property owner seeks to lease suites 100 and 300, which totals approximately 11,059 square feet to two accredited sister college institutions, which are Virginia University of Integrative Medicine or View, offering graduate level programs in acupuncture and East Asian medicine, and the second college, which is as these are two sister colleges, Ivy College, offering associate and bachelor's degree programs in business administration, healthcare management and cybersecurity.