Lazy River Lane retaining-wall fix gets staff backing with stream-buffer conditions

Sandy Springs planning staff recommends conditional approval of a retaining-wall revision on Lazy River Lane in River Oaks. The Sept. 28 report on V-25-61 backs modifying a wall built without required permits so it would leave the state’s 25-foot stream buffer while remaining partly within the city’s 50-foot undisturbed vegetative buffer.

The proposed wall would be about 110 feet long and no more than six feet high. About 52 feet of wall, covering 70 square feet, would remain in the city buffer. The plan also calls for trees, shrubs and groundcover to restore approximately 2,890 square feet of disturbed buffer land.

Staff’s proposed conditions require a drainage trench or equivalent runoff reduction, disturbance limited to the area needed for the work, and construction substantially matching the preferred Option A and revegetation plan. The variance is listed for the Board of Appeals’ Oct. 7 meeting at 6 p.m. in City Hall’s Studio Theatre; the packet records a staff recommendation, not board approval.