A growing church wants to build in a quiet East Cobb neighborhood, and residents say the plan will ruin their roads and shatter their peace.
What’s Happening: Grace Resurrection Methodist Church is asking Cobb County for special permission to build a 15,000-square-foot worship center with nearly 300 parking spaces on Oak Lane. The church wants to use a neighborhood road as its main entrance, even though county rules say churches must connect to bigger roads.
What’s Important: The Cobb Board of Zoning Appeals will decide the church’s request on December 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the David Hankerson Building at 100 Cherokee Street in Marietta. Neighbors have started a petition against the plan, saying Bill Murdock Road and surrounding streets cannot handle the extra cars, and that 22 LED light poles will disturb the area at night…