The group behind the Skyhaven Quarry project in East Atlanta have scheduled another working community meeting about the project on Tuesday, April 19, 6-8pm in the Community Room at First Mount Pleasant Baptist Church at 816 Maynard Terrace SE.

The Skyhaven Quarry is an assemblage of seven properties comprising roughly 12 acres in East Atlanta near the intersection of Moreland Ave and Skyhaven Ave/United Ave. Currently, 2.5 acres on the Moreland side is zoned MRC-1 in the City of Atlanta while the remaining 9.3 acres is zoned R4 in unincorporated DeKalb County. The latter portion has a former rock quarry and Ripplewater Creek running through it.

There is an opportunity to create a master-planned, park-oriented development with approximately 4 acres on the Moreland side entitled for a mixed-use/mixed-income development with the remaining ±7 acres preserved and programmed as a public trail/park greenspace that interacts with the new development.

Additionally, the eastern portion of the Quarry site is directly adjacent to an existing 14-acre greenspace that was the site of the former Skyhaven Elementary School. This greenspace could be connected to the Quarry site and trail to create a roughly 21-acre public benefit in an “under-parked” area and provide a half-mile long, uninterrupted greenspace and path to connect the residents of East Atlanta from Cloverdale Drive to Moreland Avenue, leading to the Atlanta BeltLine and/or direct access to a MARTA bus line.