Responding to objections raised by residents and a local church, the Sandy Springs City Council on Tuesday night revised plans for remaking Sandy Springs Circle that could have cost the church land.
“The community had concerns, and we listened,” said Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul. Representatives of Sandy Springs United Methodist Church attended the Council meeting and thanked the city for working with them, a city spokeswoman said.
Sandy Springs Circle in front of the church will continue to have two southbound lanes of travel, rather than one travel lane and one for parallel parking, officials said. In online petitions, the church had objected to possible congestion from losing the traffic lane, and the potential loss of 40 feet of land to a sidewalk and multi-use path.
Revised plans also reduce the street’s travel lanes from 11 to 10 feet wide, and eliminate the 6-foot-wide sidewalk as well as a landscape furniture zone.
An existing driveway to the church Activities Center would stay where it is, and there no longer were plans for a retaining wall. The church had opposed plans to move the driveway and build the wall.
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