240 new apartments on Cobb agenda

Commissioners to hear details for north Cobb project.

Cobb County Board of Commissioners will hear plans for a 240-unit apartment complex during the commission’s monthly zoning hearing today.

Atlanta developer Quin- tus Development plans to build five four-story apartment buildings on an undeveloped 19.9-acre lot at the south end of Roberts Court in unincorporated Kennesaw.

The complex, which has been coined Avonlea Heights, would be situated between Interstates 75 and 575 just south of the Town Center Plaza shopping mall within the Town Center Community Improvement District.

Avonlea Heights, if approved, would included a combination of one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments ranging from 781 to 1,035 square feet, according to developers. The complex would include amenities such as a swimming pool, a clubhouse and fitness cen- ter. Site plans the developers submitted to the county did not include proposed rental prices for the apartments.

Quintus is asking the county to rezone the prop- erty, currently in a general commercial district, to a mixed-use zoning designa- tion that would allow the apartment complex.

Cobb’s planning commission approved the rezoning measure Sept. 7, advancing it to the Board of Commissioners despite objections from the Bells Ferry Civic Association as well as Cobb County School District officials.

The civic associa t ion said the apartment complex would increase traffic congestion and might lack access roads for fire trucks and emergency vehicles and sound buffers to mitigate noise.

School district officials said they had concerns that the complex would intensify overcrowding at Bells Ferry Elementary School about a