Dunwoody’s City Council unanimously approved a redesign of part of the High Street development Monday, Oct. 26, allowing smaller commercial buildings to replace a planned seven-story residential building.
The Block 6 proposal calls for three to five office and retail buildings, with the submitted layout showing three buildings around a central plaza, according to Appen Media’s meeting preview.
The second-reading approval lets GID Development Group revise its 2018 site plan while retaining the project’s overall use limits established in 2007, Rough Draft Atlanta reported. Those limits allow up to 1,500 condominiums, 1,500 apartments, 400,000 square feet of retail, 635,000 square feet of office space and two hotels.
Council feedback at an Oct. 13 discussion prompted wider sidewalks and changes to the trail construction schedule, according to Rough Draft.
Before the vote, Appen reported that proposed conditions would allow up to 60 off-street spaces for short-term uses such as deliveries and ride-share pickups. The proposal also included a phase-two multi-use path and a potential $150,000 contribution toward a connection to neighboring property if that opportunity arose within three years of the first certificate of occupancy.
High Street is a $2 billion mixed-use development at Perimeter Center Parkway and Hammond Drive. Its first phase opened in late 2024 with 600 apartments, shops, restaurants and offices linked by a three-quarter-acre park, according to the city’s project overview.
Council also considered a first reading of an ordinance that would create Georgetown and Jett Ferry entertainment districts and expand the Perimeter Center district. The designations establish areas where people can carry permitted to-go alcoholic drinks.
The proposal would cover Georgetown’s commercial areas along Chamblee Dunwoody Road, North Shallowford Road and Dunwoody Park South. The Jett Ferry district would include commercial properties on both sides of Jett Ferry Road.
Perimeter Center’s boundaries would expand north and east, while the Dunwoody Village district would remain unchanged.
Council members had expressed interest in that district-wide approach during a July 27 discussion of four expansion options, Rough Draft reported. At the Oct. 26 meeting, Mayor Lynn Deutsch and several members questioned whether Georgetown and Jett Ferry needed entertainment districts beyond special events.
The proposal will return for further consideration.
In other business, council voted 5-1 to fund a public safety storage building at 4470 N. Shallowford Road, with Council Member John Heneghan opposed. Members also discussed additional stormwater design work for the Happy Hollow Road sidewalk project and heard residents object to the city’s use of Flock surveillance cameras.
