Up to five craftsman-style cottages planned along Mulberry Street, a heavily wooded area off Atlanta Highway, got Flowery Branch City Council’s approval Thursday night. The council gave Kellin Dobbs permission to build the homes closer to the road than normally allowed so he can take them out of a neighboring floodplain. “From staff’s standpoint, this is the textbook poster child of why you have a variance,” city planning director John McHenry told the council.