The Johns Creek Planning Commission met on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 7:00 PM at City Hall Council Chambers. The Commission reviewed two land use petitions: a rezoning and variance for a 48-lot single-family subdivision on the Johns Creek United Methodist Church campus, and a rezoning, special use permit, and variances for an outdoor dog run at an existing pet care facility. Both items were approved with conditions.
All right, good evening. My name's Arthur Holse, and I'd like to call the September 1st. Believe it, it's already September 1st. Meeting of the City of Johns Creek Planning Commission to order. At this time, I would like to ask everyone to please silence or turn off your cell phone. This body, the planning commission, is a recommending body to the mayor and the city council, and we follow guidelines in conjunction with the public hearing to assist in formulating a recommendation. Copies of the Planning Commission's procedures and staff reports are available at the entrance to this chamber here in the back. The presiding officer will call cases on the agenda for public hearing. First, the presiding officer shall recognize the planning staff to make a presentation of the case with recommendations, and then we will open to a public hearing. The applicant shall receive a time period of 10 minutes to present their case. If there is any concurrent variance, which we have tonight, each shall grant the applicant an additional 10 minutes. After completing this process, the presiding officer will indicate that the public hearing is closed. And upon that closing of the public hearing, the planning commission will no longer be addressed or cannot be addressed any longer by the applicant or opposition. The planning commission may ask questions of city staff at that time. And once all questions have been asked and addressed, the presiding officer will call for a motion, and if properly seconded, will call for a vote on the matter on the matter. The presiding officer will then state the vote and recommendation for the record. I would like to ask all to act courteously and refrain from any outbursts or comments from the audience. That's why they give me this handy dandy like. I've only had to use it once or twice here, just so you know. I would like to recognize my uh uh colleagues up on the stage, um, Commissioner Horton, Commissioner Cal Couch, Commissioner Carnwall, Commissioner Katzen, um Commissioner Anon could not be with us, and obviously Commissioner Judith Roth here on my left. Uh at this point, the first item of business on our agenda is to review the meeting minutes from June, right? Where am I? Yes. Where is my June, right? I'll make a motion to approve meeting minutes. I'll second. Great. All those in favor. Motion passes six to zero. The the first item of business on the agenda for this evening is zoning. Wait a second, sorry. Reading up the wrong thing. Is um land use petition RZ-26 0001 and concurrent variants VC-26-001. I was looking at the wrong thing. Hello, Planning Commission. I'm Tyler Barron, Planner 3 here with the city. This is my uh first presentation here to the planning commission, so I uh request your patience and bear with me with a little nerves, all right. This is RZ2601 with concurrent variants VC2601, located at 11180 Medlock Bridge Road with the associated acreage two point or 21.647 acres. Uh with the existing OI zoning. The and a proposed zoning move to C UP Community Unit Plan District. The applicant request the zoning to allow a 48-lot single family detached residential subdivision at a density of 2.2 units per acre on a portion of the existing Johns Creek United Method Methodist Church, JCUMC campus. VC2601 is to allow existing parking within the required 25-foot landscape strip along Bell Road. Belmore Park and its associated HOA Common Area to the northeast, Bell Road Connector, and it's bound by Bell Road Connector and Bell Road to the southeast and south, and Medlock Bridge Road to the west. You can see in this graphic here the location of all those items. The site is currently zoned OI Conditional pursuant to RZ09-006 and SUP09-003, allowing for a church and accessory uses, a scout center, and 10 recreational fields. The site is currently improved with a 19 or 190,000 square foot church building, those recreational fields, and 510 parking spaces. Access to the site is provided by one right-in-right out off of Medlock Bridge Road, another right in right out, and one full access driveway off of Bell Road. You can see open on the left, and allow a 48-lot single family detached residential development at a density of 2.2 units per acre on the eastern portion of the property, highlighted there with the dashed red line. These lots have a minimum lot size of 5,000 square feet. The remaining 33 lots shown in yellow have a minimum lot size of 36,000 square feet.