Once the item reached their agenda on February 13, the Greenbelt City Council needed no convincing to agree to oppose the Southern Management Company’s concept plan for a 25-story high rise apartment on the Lakeside North tract as presented at an April 4, 2016 worksession.
Council unanimously approved two motions related to the project. The first expressed council’s opposition to the conceptual design “as it is inappropriate to the character of the nearby neighborhood, destroys a valuable wooded area and cannot be developed with the current and prospective zoning.” The second opposed “any zoning change or text amendment that allows additional density in the parcel where the Lakeside North apartments are located.”