Developers propose 80 townhomes at 2342 North Shallowford Road in Chamblee

Matt Adams, Chamblee’s Planning Development Director, opened the meeting and turned the item over to staff and the applicant for a Design Review Board hearing on a Development of Community Impact application covering ten parcels along North Shallowford Road and East Johnson Circle.

Louisa Tovar, deputy director for the planning development department, told the board the application (DCI request PC-2026-1791) seeks a zoning map amendment from Neighborhood Residential (NR-1) to Village Residential (VR-2) to permit “the construction of a total of 80 town homes, with 7 variances and 10 waivers” on roughly 7.45 acres. She said the site includes eight existing single-family homes, two vacant lots, a pipeline easement crossing the property, and a stream buffer that occupies about 2.5 acres of the site. Tovar also gave the board the project’s headline numbers: about 190,000 square feet of building area, an FAR of roughly 0.598, and roughly 2.72 acres (36%) of open space; the applicant’s materials claim 844 inches of tree-canopy credit, exceeding the minimum tree-density requirement.

A project representative presented the design rationale and context, saying the development yields about 10.7 units per acre and that building types will range from roughly 1,400 to 3,000 square feet depending on unit type. The representative also noted access would be via a new private street with rear-loaded units facing the public frontages and internal sidewalks provided on both sides of the private street. The applicant identified Harrison Homes as the builder and described a palette of brick, board-and-batten siding and other materials shown in the submitted elevations and renderings.

Why it matters: the plan requests multiple waivers and variances and would change how the site transitions to nearby single-family areas, partly because pipeline and stream-buffer constraints remove a significant portion of the developable land.