Wildhorse Hills home plan gets staff backing for 75-foot setback waiver

Powder Springs staff recommend conditionally approving a request to remove the 75-foot setback for impervious surfaces for a replacement home at 3200 Palomino Drive in Wildhorse Hills. The Aug. 21, 2026, report identifies case PZ26-033 and describes a vacant lot that previously held a single-family house. A separate site-plan schematic for the address shows the 75-foot impervious-setback line crossing the main-house footprint.

Whether the drainage feature requires stream buffers remains unresolved in the report. Staff analysis calls it a man-made ditch with no floodplain, but the city’s stormwater engineer said heavy vegetation prevented a fuller investigation and recommended a professional assessment to determine whether it is ephemeral and requires buffers. The report labels its included site plan as awaiting revision; the standalone schematic does not establish whether that requested revision was supplied.

Recommended conditions would prohibit enlarging the structure because the applicant has reached the 35% impervious-coverage limit, require post-construction impervious calculations and call for the home to match neighboring architecture, scale and character. The recommendation also calls for the professional stream assessment. These are staff recommendations, not evidence of final variance approval.