City Council refers Westside Park overlay amendment and related special-use permit
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The Atlanta City Council voted 6-0 to refer two zoning items—a proposed expansion of the Westside Park affordable workforce housing overlay and a special‑use permit for a personal care home—without public comment or substantive debate.
The Atlanta City Council on Thursday referred two zoning items related to Westside Park and a personal care home, voting 6-0 to defer further action.
Director Holmes read 19 zoning ordinances and special-use items for first reading, and council members subsequently moved to take items 18 and 19 as a block and refer them for later consideration. Council member Dozier moved to refer the two items; the motion passed 6 yeas, 0 nays. There were no speakers signed up for public comment.
The two items taken as a block were: an ordinance for a special-use permit for a personal care home for property at 41425 Westview Drive Southwest (item 18), and an ordinance introduced by Council members Dustin Hillis, Michael Julian Bond, Matt Westmoreland and Isha Collins to amend the City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances, Part 16 Chapter 41, the Westside Park affordable workforce housing overlay district, to expand the overlay’s geographic boundaries and amend the chapter title (item 19). Director Holmes read the ordinance and code citations into the record; the council did not debate either item before voting to refer them.
Earlier in the meeting the council adopted the agenda and approved minutes; the minutes were moved by Council member Shook and adopted by voice vote recorded as 4 ayes, 0 nays in the transcript excerpt. The council then proceeded to the zoning items, during which Director Holmes listed other rezonings and special-use requests for multiple properties across the city (including locations on Saint John Circle Southwest, Peyton Avenue Northwest, Hightower Road Northwest, Howell Mill Road Northwest and Forsyth Street Southwest). Those items (1–17) were presented for first reading and were not discussed in detail in the provided transcript.
By referring items 18 and 19, the council postponed any substantive action or final vote on the proposed expansion of the Westside Park affordable workforce housing overlay and the personal care home special‑use permit; the transcript does not specify to which committee or hearing the items were referred, nor does it set a date for further consideration. The meeting then continued with other business and adjourned.
