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Roswell City Council adds licensing hurdle on new massage spas Media rebuked for coverage By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
conditional use permit will not run with the land, providing a stopgap with any changeover. ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Before the decision, massage City Council unanimously therapy businesses had been approved changes to the city’s allowed by-right under personal zoning ordinance Feb. 12 that services. would require business licenses For the second and final for new massage establishments reading of the text amendment, to clear the council. Roswell Planning and Zoning The vote comes in the wake Director Jackie Deibel of a recent police investigation presented changes that were resulting in the arrests of three at the suggestion of massage principal figures with a human therapists, councilmembers and trafficking network, serving the city attorney. search and arrest warrants at Alterations include changing 10 locations in Roswell, Johns the use name from “massage Creek, Sandy Springs and and spa establishment” Atlanta. There have been 70 to “licensed massage arrests across 23 locations in establishment”; changing Roswell, and the investigation is “health spa” to “wellness”; ongoing. moving “massage therapy” New massage businesses under “Medical” use provisions will be allowed throughout all See MASSAGE, Page 20 commercial areas, and the
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The root systems of several large specimen trees, lining the driveway at Mimosa Hall, may likely be impacted due to an oncoming city project to install a new driveway. The project is intended to allow fire trucks onto the property, widening the driveway from 8 to 16 feet with concrete.
New Mimosa Hall driveway could threaten stately trees By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Gus Hadorn, board member of Friends of Mimosa Hall and Gardens, pointed out several large specimen trees along the historic property’s driveway, trees threatened by an oncoming city
project. Their root systems lay in the path of a new, wider driveway at Mimosa Hall, intended to accommodate firetrucks. Hadorn said the Friends group hired an independent arborist who said if the root system of any tree is damaged by at least 30 percent, it will be lost.
Friends of Mimosa Hall and Gardens was formed in 2017, the same year the city purchased the 9-acre property, with the mission to champion the sustainable preservation of the grounds. “Those firetrucks are pretty big, and I think the width and
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