Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the City of John Screef's Zoning Public Participation Meeting. My name is Ruchi Agarwal and I'm the Principal Planner of the Community Development Department. Tonight we have one rezoning case and the applicant will be presenting that case. But before I move forward with that, let me explain you the format of the meeting. This, the formal presentation portion of the meeting where the applicant will be presenting information about the case will be live streamed and after that we will move into our interactive session with anybody who will, who will in future join us here in the meeting room for a more interactive question and answer session. So that portion will not be live streamed. So if you have any questions, you can reach out to City of John Street or directly to the applicant about the case for our online viewers who are watching this meeting. With that, let me introduce to the case. We have tonight's rezoning case is RZ-23-003. It is located, the subject property is located at 66650, Megan S. Ferry Road. It is 4.77 acres and the current zoning is C1, community business district. The applicant is proposing to change the conditions, current conditions of the zoning and so they are proposing C1 zoning with changing conditions. And the changing condition is to allow for a 74,192 square foot commercial development with a daycare, medical offices, retail, restaurants, and a liquor store. And with one concurrent variance. And the variance is VC-23-004, which is to allow encroachment into the stream buffer to provide public access to existing pedestrian trail and to also provide open space for public use. With that, I'll let the applicant explain more about the project. Thank you. Do I need to start from here? I got it. Yeah, you double-click. There it is. Yeah. There we go. There we go. My name is Wendy Crabe. I am a land-used attorney and I am working with vantage commercial contractors on this zoning matter. So in this matter, it's important to note that the property is at the corner of McGinnis Ferry Road and John's Creek Parkway and the property is already zoned commercial C1. What this process will do is basically approve a site plan and it will take whatever conditions are currently on the property and those will go away and whatever new conditions will go on to the property. So procedurally that is what is gonna be done. So the idea in this development, it is a retail development, but the goal is to be a more modern retail development. That is have not just shops, but it's gonna be dealing with services such as medical offices, a monastery school, higher end, sit down dining, including rooftop dining. And it's gonna be spaced out in three different buildings. So the idea is that it be walkable, there'll be sidewalks through the development. Development is to be interconnected. It is interconnected to the Delta Credit Community. Let me, I'll move this forward real quick. There we go. It's going to be interconnected to the Delta Credit Union, Delta Credit Union on the corner. It's going to be connected to the parcel to just the south through a driveway. It's going to be connected through the creek walking trail that is through there. And of course, it is connected and surrounded by sidewalks and both of the main streets of McGinnis Ferry and John's Creek Parkway. These are the elevations of what is going to be there. You can see there's different size building that is not just one big long strip center. That is not to look at all. It is to be more walkable, more like a little bit of a town area. There will be some area, some buildings that have some secondary space, and then some buildings that have rooftop space. Now have the owner come and talk about that a little bit on exactly what is going to be in this. One of the things that's important to note that all of this is C1 and will remain is C1. I'm going to go over it. It still falls underneath the town creek town center code even though it's going to remain under the previous zoning. So with that, the goal, the developer wanted to create something that was more pedestrian friendly. They had the rooftop features that really enhanced and took advantage of the creek that's going to be running through on the side of the property. We're very cognizant that this property is right either within or right on the outside of Tech Park. And the hope is that some of the development, sorry. Let's try. I'm sorry. We'll get a, I'm trying to go back. Just use this. Okay. There we go. Actually, you can just that. Okay. Actually, you know, it's almost easier to do this. Okay. So the idea with this retail center really is to be something that is a little, that's different than the other retail net and that area, as well as be something that can serve the workers in tech park. And hopefully if those properties redevelop as well, create something that's more walkable and providing services, especially given the great interconnectivity that it has. especially given the great interconnectivity that it has. I wanted to invite up Jay Prock, the owner of the developer. I do want to point out that this is not a developer who is then going to turn around and sell the project. This is about the owner building it and using it and being an owner and part of the community for years to come. So, Ruchie, is that visible? Okay, that's fine. Just fine. We can probably do that. That's fine. Good evening, everyone. My name is Jay Perret. I'm one of the owners of Vantage Commercial Contractors. We are a mainly a commercial development firm. And we are a little bit unique in our space where we actually are vertically integrated and we focus on many of our own concepts that we self create, self operate and we're doing that all over the metro area, places like Gainesville, Dunwoody, and many others. We're particularly excited about John's Creek because this is the first time personally, I've been doing this 25 years, we're actually doing a development in the city where we live. My friends, my family, my children, everybody is very, very excited with what we're bringing. And it's really personal to me. As Wendy said, a great majority of the development developments and uses that we're bringing are ones that we are self operating as well. And they range from a family friendly, it's called Brew Foundry. It's a tap room restaurant that's very family friendly, huge green spaces and play areas. And it's got, it's two story. It has a rooftop patio and a lot of very neat features that are unique to that brand. We're excited to bring brunch bar social, which is a branch-based restaurant, heavy during the mornings and daytime traffic. And we're really excited to be in our Jason technology park in that particular area. We think that will serve the community really well. We are also excited about bringing a Montessori daycare called Luma and its sister outfit which is an autism therapy center called Luma Autism Center. And we have other mixed retail offices or excited to bring a very upscale wine and wine cigar and and spare shop as well. It's called Strongwater. There are many of those that we're developing all over the city as well. And I think Wendy was able to have this slide. I wanted to, here we go. Maybe the next one. If you see, this is very consistent, the design language is very consistent with most of our developments. We do a mix of traditional and modern materials, much like the city of Johns Creek City Hall, where it uses bricksstone and also ACM is very tastefully used throughout the building. A lot of the material you'll see in our development are brickstone and ACM. So we are happy to see that language in a great very nicely. And we're just excited with this development. I was just going to talk briefly about the variance request. There is really only, I think we would call just one variance request and that is for the creek buffers. So for the creek buffer, there's a 50 foot buffer from the actual creek bed, as well as on top of that another 25 foot pervious buffer. So the applicant is asking to be able to enter into that buffer specifically, one to create sidewalks and steps to go to the existing paved creek side trail that exists so that if you're in development, you can easily, let's do a picture. Easily access the creek area and walk down to that trail. The other request is there is going to be a wooden viewing deck that over looks the creek and encroaches a little bit into that buffer. Turf from wood. And there's going to be what is planned, what we call recreational area, but it's really, it's more about having a seating, maybe an outdoor fire pit, a simple lawn game type community space. And that would be over by the creek and over by the trail as well. The idea is to take advantage of that and have more modern view of a creek running through your property and the advantages you can have with that. I encourage you if you have any questions at all to please let us know and ask us whether it's tonight or separately if you want to call us or email us we're happy to talk to you about any issue. Thank you Wendy. Thank you Jay for the presentation for this proposal. With that, we'll end our formal portion of the meeting. As Wendy said, we do not have any audience who attended the meeting in person here. So if you have for our online viewers or any other general public, any questions please reach out to Community Development Department. My information is on the website and to the applicant you can directly reach out to them as well. Thank you and have a wonderful evening.