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Roswell Mayor Kurt Wilson, left, debates City Councilwoman Sarah Beeson, right, over tighter rules on multifamily housing during a May 14 committee meeting.
Code change sparks debate on workforce housing By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell City Councilwoman Sarah Beeson questioned whether Roswell’s brand as the “No. 1 family community in America” could hold true when the council intends to limit multifamily housing in future mixed-use development. Up for discussion at the Administration and Finance and Recreation and Park Committee meeting May 14 was a text amendment to the city’s Unified Development Code that would require future development along Ga. 9 and Holcomb Bridge Road
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to have 51 percent of the square footage dedicated to non-residential use. “I’m very appreciative of our retirees and those who [have called] Roswell home for decades because Roswell is America’s No. 1 family friendly city,” Beeson said. “Family is grandma, but family is also the grandson who’s looking for a new job and a place to start their family.” Beeson, currently on track to earn a doctorate in city planning, cautioned the City Council against using an “arbitrary” percentage to dictate future development in commercial corridors that already have significant blight.
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She also raised concern about the update contributing to the issue of “missing middle” housing, or the lack of medium-density options. The city announced at the meeting that it is currently engaged in 19 new projects. Beeson said the type of mixed-used development the council has said it wants, and the general appetite, is in conflict with the limitation on residential. She referenced The Battery Atlanta which she said is not 51 percent commercial, as an example.
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