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Good evening, everybody.

My name is Brady McDonald.

I'm the developer for this project at the corner of Riverside Drive and Fulton Industrial Boulevard.

We just handed out a packet.

You can see there's three individual parcels within the development.

The development is just over nine acres.

And so three individually owned and developed and operated properties.

This is not under unified control.

And so the intention here is to have a self-storage facility, a restaurant pad, and a retail pad.

We have done extensive work.

This has been deferred many, many, many, many times, as you may know, to get this right.

We've met with Sand Town multiple times, although we do recognize this is not in Sand Town.

We've met with the closest residents and business operators in the area, all of which, uh most of which support.

In the package, you'll see 32 names of uh who support this full development, including the self-storage.

Um, you know, we've done an immense amount of research, you know, with regards to the the different uses and and the actual feasibility for uh particularly the storage component.

The closest storage, um, because this is the one aspect that we seem to be getting a little bit of pushback on, is uh the closest storage is over four point four miles away.

Um, a self-storage market itself is actually within three miles.

So people uh do not like to drive with uh further than that.

Now we have actually um spoke to some of the residents uh at the riverside um apartments that actually use the storage at the highway that's 4.4 miles away, and they don't feel safe going there.

So this is definitely a desired use here.

Um it is strategically parked uh you know on a in you know against industrial the industrial boulevard.

Obviously, it's a good transition from residential to the industrial uses that are along this highway.

And um, you know, often we get lots of questions with regards to who uses storage.

So I'm not gonna go into all of it, but it is in your packet there.

We've done a lot of uh research and due diligence.

And the one thing I'd just like you to note is the the renderings uh on page two of the packet is that this is a class A self-storage facility.

This is not you know the dark dungey, you know, garage doors types of things.

This is something that looks more like an apartment building than a storage facility.

Um, you know, so one of our biggest challenges with this was one of the conditions that you're that uh the staff um had on there.

We worked very closely with staff to come up with a condition that was amended um a few days ago that is suitable for us.

Um the language on the initially proposed is on the cover letter that does not allow us to get financing, and not just the storage component, but any the either the retail or the um restaurant pad.

Nobody will get financing, so this is making this site undevelopable.

The amended language that we've worked very closely with staff does allow us to do that.

So that's all I'll I'll I'll pause there for now and I'll I'll uh pass it to Jeff.

Uh

good evening, council.

My name is Jeff Haymore.

I'm a land use attorney with the law firm of Dillard Sellers.

Our firm address is 1776 uh Peace Tree Street in Atlanta.

The comprehensive plan, and you spoke to that in your earlier meeting, uh, does support this uh rezoning.

It's consistent with your land use designation.

As you know, your professional planning staff as well as your planning commission have so found, and each uh recommends that you approve this rezoning.

Now they both recommend that you adopt three conditions, and we concur with conditions one and two regarding condition number two.

Uh, we have in writing from GDOT uh that access to Fulton Industrial Boulevard uh district will not be a problem.

Uh

as you've heard, the original condition three language does prevent us from developing this property.

Now, last November I stood in front of this council uh on behalf of a different development uh in district three that had previously been approved but did require a change in condition in order to finance uh that project.

That was Donald Washington's project, uh the Courtney on Yates Road, and you kindly worked with us to modify that language, and I appreciate your working with us in that case.

And we're here to ask uh that you do the same thing with us here, that we find a reasonable compromise.

We've passed out that language uh is uh my client said, what you have before you in your staff report is that revised language that does work for us.

It achieves the intent of concurrency without being so rigid that the lenders will not lend.

Now, while conditional zoning in Georgia is lawful, um the Supreme Court has put some guardrails on that.

And what it says is it must be adopted to ameliorate uh adverse effects of that rezoning on surrounding property owners.

Here, there are no surrounding property owners that have voiced any concern, quite the opposite.

They are here in support of this rezoning, and you'll hear from them hopefully in just a little bit.

Uh just to conclude, also wanted to point out that in your code as Section 804.04, it lists 16 types of zoning conditions that this body may impose on rezoning or special use permit approvals.