in beautiful Downtown Woodstock
Serenade, just wanted to make you aware that the Proposed Developer meeting tomorrow night and Wednesday night has been postponed to next week to coincide with our HOA Annual meeting next Tuesday February 5th at 7pm Chambers at City Center. This is due to the Winter Weather. They will also hold a second meeting for extra questions on Wednesday Feb. 6th at 6pm.
Pre-meeting tonight at 390 Windsong Way at 6pm for about 30 minutes
Planning Commission meeting at 7:00 at the Chambers at City Center
See you there!
Neighbors, please plan on attending the Planning Commission Meeting this Thursday 7pm Chambers at City Center. We will have a pre-meeting at my home 390 Windsong Way at 6pm for about 30 minutes to make sure all of us are on the same page. This is the biggest development to impact Serenade in our history and will drastically effect everyone’s privacy and make traffic even worse.
Thank you so much!
See the agenda on the City’s website here: http://woodstockga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Default.aspx
Santa is coming to visit Serenade! Come see Santa and enjoy refreshments with your neighbors. The event will be hosted at the Thomson Home. Feel free to drop in between 10am-12pm or stay for the full time. All neighbors are welcome!
Saturday, December 15th, 10am-12pm
(For security purposes, email serenade.social@gmail.com if you need the address.)
Everyone did an amazing job filling our neighborhood with lights and cheer. It is time to vote!
Proposed Development / PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HAS BEEN MOVED TO THURSDAY JAN. 10TH, PLEASE ADJUST YOUR CALENDARS AND PLAN TO ATTEND
he biggest development to impact our neighborhood possibly since the founding of our great neighborhood almost 20 years ago is ready for Planning Commission. We are asking all Residents in Serenade who want their voices heard to attend the Planning Commission Meeting on Jan. 10th @ 7pm Chambers at City Center. Attached to this email are the site plan PDFs and 3 pictures to give you an idea how this development might impact Serenade.
This development will impact not only the homeowners you see from the photo, but will even impact our amenities as well since the proposed buildings will be 45 ft high and 4 stories tall! They are proposing 100 units while the City of Woodstock continues to allow run away development without addressing traffic concerns. We may not be able to stop the development, but rather could steer the City and Planning Commission that this current plan should be revised. The development is going to tear down every single tree in the section zoned off in green on the picture. They are only going to allow a 10ft buffer between Serenade Homes and a 4 story tall building! They will possibly have balconies all the way up to the 4th floor looking into our backyards and over to our amenities such as the pool. It is also possible that they may try to access our Sewer Lines running under Serenade, without the city giving us assurances that our Sewer Lines can withstand 100 more units capacity. Obviously this development will cause even more traffic problems in downtown. As a Homeowner who is directly affected and Vice President of Serenade HOA, I have major concerns about this development in it’s current form. Some of you may also realize that they will destroy the 100 year old home right across from the Car Wash on Main Street. The first historic home you see on the way into town.
BELOW ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF REQUEST HOMEOWNERS HAVE FOR THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT:
1. They should allow at least a 20-25 ft buffer between homes. We should not have to look at 4 story tall buildings in our backyard. 10 ft is way to small especially since they will take all trees down behind our homes, and the new trees they plant will take a decade or more to reach a decent height.
2. No balconies be constructed on the rear of any of the units facing Serenade beyond the 2nd story. We shouldn’t have massive balconies on the 3rd and 4th story invading our privacy.
3. Confirm with us and the city where the sewer lines will be run?
4. Add more commercial into this project. It is virtually all Residential Buildings.
5. How does this development affect traffic?
I know many of you were at the Public Participation Meeting. At this point the developer has done absolutely nothing to move one inch in trying to address our concerns. They said they would do a balloon study, they haven’t done it. They said in June that we would have 20ft buffers, now it is 10ft. You can tell this developer is hoping they can just ram this through the City and not even in good faith try to work with us. This is a shame.
PLEASE PLEASE Serenade Residents let your voices be heard! If you don’t then you have no reason to complain once our 100 year old trees are replaced with buildings. Even if you don’t live right next to this property, please attend the Planning Commission Meeting. I would ask that everyone who shows up be prepared to have a 1-2 minute talking points speech to say in front of the Planning Commission.
It is important we all have a cohesive message. I understand other homeowners might have other concerns as well. Let them be heard. I will be having a 30 minute pre-meeting at my house on January 10th at 6pm 390 Windsong for any homeowners who want to strategize before we go into the Planning Commission Meeting at 7pm.
Thank you all for being Serenade Residents and living in Woodstock. I love it here and have been a resident for 11 years here. Many residents have voiced though their concern for how much development has been allowed in recent years.
I hope to see all of you Jan. 10th! We need to have 15-20+ homeowners prepared to speak. Please RSVP your intention on attending the Planning Commission Meeting at serenade.hoa.vp@gmail.com
Thanks,
Christian Wulfers
