Snellville Home Owners Sell Out

Villas At Knollwood Lakes

As you travel east on Highway 124, you cross over from Lawrenceville to Snellville.  There is a neighborhood that pops up immediately that is one of the newer neighborhoods in Snellville.  With homes featured from the mid $300's to the high 7's and 8's, Knollwood Lakes is certainly in the top 10% of all homes in Snellville.  Most people move out to Snellville for the value and the quiet lifestyle.  With a slogan like, "Everybody is somebody in Snellville," who wouldn't want to move here.

Well all of that is about to change.  A few years back, Snellville decided they wanted more commercial business.  The moved city hall to a central location and rezoned everything around it.  The allowed a new strip mall to be installed on Webb Gin House Road.  All up and down Highway 124 and Highway 78 you can see the results of this move.

With the success of these commercial ventures, developers are clammoring for more land to develop.  One such spot just happens to be adjacent to Knollwood Lakes.  Homeowners that neighbor the land are up in arms.  They moved out here for the serenity and at best figured another neighborhood would go in.  Not something that would cause more traffic, run off issues and other reported problems.

"Residents of the Essex Square neighborhood moved one step closer to selling out to a commercial real estate developer Tuesday when the Gwinnett County Planning Commission recommended that the project be allowed to proceed

The 1980s-era neighborhood between Snellville and Lawrenceville is increasingly surrounded by commercial development. Tired of trying to fend off rezoning efforts, residents -- a total of 19 homes -- finally agreed to sell out to Strategic Realty Group to make way for a 300,000-square-foot retail center.

After a one-month delay to consider concerns raised by nearby home-owners, the Planning Commission voted 7-1 Tuesday to recommend that the project on Ga. 124 near Webb Gin House Road should be allowed to proceed."

Homeowners jumped at the chance to sell out because of all the news they've seen and are not sure when they will get another opportunity to sell so high.

This issue is ongoing and more details will be posted at later date.

Check out the AJC article here.