Comparing the Tritt Property to the Perkins Property

Updated 28 January 2015

Some people have tried to draw comparisons between the Tritt Property, and the Perkins Property, which is currently under construction on Johnson Ferry Road, just south of Lower Roswell Road and adjacent the Parkaire Landing shopping center.  These two properties are very different.

There is some scandal related to the Perkins property, involving three people who were recently criminally indicted in Cobb Superior Court for swindling Mrs. Perkins, the elderly lady who owned the property and who was suffering from dementia at the time.  The rezoning of the Perkins property and the current construction is not part of that scandal.

The 32-acre Perkins property is surrounded by commercial retail on the north and west sides, high-density (10 units per acre) condominiums on the east side, and a subdivision on the south side. Half of the Perkins property was already zoned RM-12 for condominiums, and 132 units could have potentially been built on it without rezoning. The current Cobblestone Manor development is for 125 units (85 houses and 40 townhouses), for a total of 7 fewer units than before rezoning.

Also, the Perkins property has no floodplain, stream buffers, easements or steep slopes, unlike the Tritt property which has all of the above.  It is basically a big, fairly flat piece of land with practically no obstacles to development.

In contrast, the 54-acre Tritt property is entirely zoned R-20, and the zoning application says that 93 houses could be built there (the zoning applications ignore floodplain and other encumbrances that will lower the number of units that could actually be built to about 80 homes). The Tritt property is surrounded by low density residential subdivisions and parks on the east, south and west sides, and non-retail offices on the north. The first Isakson Living CCRC proposal would have resulted in 894 more units than the current zoning allows. The current Isakson Living proposal lowers that figure to still over 400 more units than the current R-20 residential zoning allows.

The Perkins property is a "transitional" piece of land, between a subdivision, condos and commercial retail. The largest lots are being built against the existing subdivision to help ease the transition. These lots are 20,000 to 25,000 square ft, and prices start at $850,000.  The overall Perkins development has a density of 3.9 units per acre.  The most recent Isakson Living CCRC proposal would result in a density of about 10 units per acre.

Comparing the Tritt Property to the Perkins Property

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Some people have tried to draw comparisons between the Tritt Property, and the Perkins Property, which is currently under construction on Johnson Ferry Road, just south of Lower Roswell Road and adjacent the Parkaire Landing shopping center.  These two properties are very different.

There is some scandal related to the Perkins property, involving three people who were recently criminally indicted in Cobb Superior Court for swindling Mrs. Perkins, the elderly lady who owned the property and who was suffering from dementia at the time.  The rezoning of the Perkins property and the current construction is not part of that scandal.

The Perkins property has no floodplain, stream buffers, easements or steep slopes, unlike the Tritt property which has all of the above.  It is basically a big, fairly flat piece of land with practically no obstacles to development.

The Perkins property is surrounded by retail commercial on the north and west sides, high-density (10 units per acre) condominiums on the east side, and a subdivision on the south side.  The Tritt property is surrounded by subdivisions and parks on the east, south and west sides, and non-retail offices on the north.

Half of the Perkins property was previously zoned RM-12 for condominiums, and 132 units could have potentially been built on it without rezoning.  The current development is for 125 units (85 houses and 40 townhouses), for a total of 7 fewer units than before rezoning.  In contrast, the Tritt property is entirely zoned R-20, and the zoning application says that 93 houses could be built there (the zoning applications ignore floodplain and other encumbrances that will lower the number of units that could actually be built, and just do a simple multiplication of the acres by the multiplier for the current zoning).  The  first Isakson Living CCRC proposal would have resulted in 894 more units than the current zoning.  The current Isakson Living proposal lowers that figure to 752 more units than the current zoning.

The Perkins property is a "transitional" piece of land, between a subdivision, condos and retail commercial.  The largest lots are being built against the existing subdivision to help ease the transition.  These lots are 20,000 to 25,000 square ft, and prices start at $850,000.  The overall Perkins development has a density of 3.9 units per acre.  The most recent Isakson Living CCRC proposal would result in a density of over 18 units per acre. Isakson Living has asserted that 209 houses could be built on the Tritt property, and the details about how this would NOT be possible are here.