A grocery store, restaurants, much additional retail, large parking areas, and apartments are planned for 62 acres of the Lifestyle Way development near Hamilton Place Mall.
The project by developers Ken and Byron Defoor has long been in the works, and previously has featured an Embassy Suites Hotel and a Mellow Mushroom and office near Shallowford Road long with some retail stores around a water feature.
There would be four retail sections along Gunbarrel Road near some residential sections to the north.
The apartments further north along Gunbarrel would include a community clubhouse, community courtyard and pool and deck.
Total retail is 350,000 square feet. The restaurant space is 20,000 square feet. The apartments are three- and four-story with 300 units.
The project is set to go before the Planning Commission next Monday at 1 p.m. at the County Courthouse, but the Regional Planning Agency staff is recommending deferral until a traffic study by TDOT is completed.
The property owners are the Defoors, Tommy Thompson, Winona Sims and the Stephen Dobbs Family Trust.
The applicant is Jack Haylett Branch Acquisition Company.
The staff noted that the original plan for Lifestyle Way was more of a mixed-use live/work community with walking paths, but the latest plan moves more toward retail and large parking lots.
It says the aim for the location was limiting commercial development and promoting mixed-use.
The staff also noted, "While the original plan vision called for limited retail development on this site, the actual development of retail approved through past zoning cases has increased the scale of retail. While staff acknowledges this existing condition for the site, it is even more imperative that any new site plan design address transportation impacts due to the increase in commercial development and provide sufficient buffering and transition between this property and the bordering residences along Gunbarrel Road."