The petitioner, Frank Streiff for Aaron Brent Burroughs, is requesting to rezone 3137 Martha St (Property Identification Numbers: 2-0100-06-019, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 & 25) from R-6 to B-G (File No. 18-003800-ZA).

On August 7, 2018, the Planning Commission voted to recommend denial of the requested rezoning.

The subject site, containing seven parcels and 1.3 acres combined, is located on the west side of Martha Street between Sunset Boulevard and Jurgenson Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood.  The petitioner intends to use the property as contractor office/storage space. 

The surrounding neighborhood was developed in the mid 1970s and early 1980s and is primarily a suburban-style single-family residential community. The site abuts single-family residential uses on the north and south sides and single-family residential uses across the street east of the site.  West of the site, both residential and nonresidential uses have been developed.

The Chatham County-Savannah Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM) designates the subject property as Residential Suburban Single Family. This designation is defined as “areas identified for single family detached residential dwellings at gross area densities of five units per acre or less.” As the B-G zoning classification encourages industrial and heavy commercial uses, it is incompatible with the Future Land Use Map designation.

This petition has been withdrawn at the petitioner's request.