Welcome to the City of Johns Creek Board of Zoning Appeals meeting for October 20th, 2026.

The meeting will now come to order.

Let the record show that we have a quorum.

So absent today is Mr.

Sandip and CHAP.

We have our agenda for the current meeting and the minutes from our meeting in September.

If all members have had a chance to review, are there any changes or motion on the agenda and minutes?

I'll make a motion to approve the last meeting minutes.

So Krishnan has made a motion to approve, and um Jean has seconded the uh

the

minutes.

All in favor of approving the agenda and minutes as presented, please say aye.

Anyone opposed um agenda and minutes are approved as presented for the public hearing portion tonight.

We have one case.

The staff will present the case.

After the staff presentation, the applicant will have 10 minutes to present their case.

Any opposition will have a total of 10 minutes.

If the applicant does not use their full 10 minutes, the remainder can be reserved for rebuttal.

Anyone that wishes to speak should step up to the podium and be sure to state your name and address for the record.

All questions for staff, applicants, and oppositions will be held after the public hearing is closed.

Our case tonight is V 26015.

We will begin with the staff's presentation of the request.

Good evening, board members.

Um thank you.

And my name is Ruchi Agarwal, and I'll be presenting tonight's variance case, which is V-26-0015.

The subject property is located at 10390 Forest Bridge Drive.

And it is located in the Cameron Forest subdivision.

The parcel size is approximately 0.415 acres.

And the lot was platted by Fulton County in 1985 with a 30-foot drainage and sanitary sewer eastment along the rear property line.

There is a creek, uh a creek was not identified on the recorded plant.

So just to kind of reiterate.

Subsequently, the property owner submitted an as-built survey.

The applicant has since removed the partially constructed retaining wall, but proposes to maintain the stone steps in their current location.

And

these are the steps you're seeing there in the

graphics.

Buffer and setback requirements.

First, an undisturbed natural vegetative buffer shall be maintained for 50 feet, measured horizontally on both banks as applicable of the stream as measured from the point of rested vegetation.

Second, an additional setback shall be maintained for 25 feet measured horizontally beyond the undisturbed natural vegetative buffer, in which all impervious covers shall be prohibited.

Grading, filling, and earth moving shall be minimized within the setback.

So

the variance request by the applicant is to encroach 50 linear feet into the fifth city's 75 foot stream buffer.

And this is to maintain the new stone steps in which is shown in blue.

It's very small graphic here.

And to bring the existing deck and portion of the home shown in green here into compliance with the stream buffer ordinance.

So let me explain this graphic right here in front of you.

As you can see, these are the buffer lines.

So this is the line beyond which everything is the state buffer.

So the steps that are shown in blue right here are very close to the buffer line, and then this box around the steps is the limits of disturbance, kind of to show how much area they'll need to build the steps.

So because this is an undisturbed buffer area, we kind of see the encroachment based on limits of disturbance.

That's why the linear encroachment is 50 feet from the beginning of the buffer to the end of the encroachment, which is the limits of disturbance.

So that's all 50 feet right there.

The proposed improvements would result in 128 square feet of new disturbance, 2,120 square feet of total impervious surface in the stream buffer, including the portion of the home, deck, driveway, and existing retaining wall.

15 square feet is the net increase in impervious surface within the stream buffer.

So 15 square feet is what the steps uh are going to be.

No land disturbance is proposed within the state's 25-foot stream buffer.

So no land disturbance is there or impervious beyond that red line 25 feet.

The applicant is proposing to offset the stormwater and environmental impacts associated with the requested stream buffer encroachment by having 144 square feet of planting area, which includes one small tree, two shrubs, and three ground cover, which are shown on the plan here.

The

stream buffer variance review criteria.